Nick R Thomas

@asfarasiknow (3340)

Bournemouth, England

Joined myLot 9 years ago

Comedy writer, public speaker and presentation skills coach.

www.nickrthomas.co.uk

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Diary Thursday 8th August 2019

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44998) • Preston, England 9 Aug 19

The morning was taken up with the film festival preparation meeting for the volunteers and this was very productive. The university group covered my lunch and travel experiences After lunch I had my annual 1 to 1 meeting, a...

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Nick R Thomas Hope you can move on. Not sure I'd even go back, so.well done.

18 Aug 19

Diary 13th To 17th Augut 2019

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44998) • Preston, England 17 Aug 19

Tuesday 13th (somehow less frightening to people than Friday 13th) - A friend studying a research project at the university asked me to do some tests for him, as he has to run a study with 24 people. I was happy to help out. It...

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Nick R Thomas I'd love to.hear the sarcasm.

18 Aug 19

Would you poop in my outhouse?

The Horse @TheHorse (220245) • Walnut Creek, California 13 Aug 19

One of my projects in Montana this Summer was making my outhouse more attractive. Pooping in an outhouse can be difficult, even for me, as spiders are crawling around your tush, packrats are looking on with disdain as you sully...

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Nick R Thomas Well, it beats the hole in the ground surrounded by Hessian sheets that we had at our Boy Scout camp here in the UK in the 70s. Six days of that and with limited washing facilities. We all got sick by the time we went home. Your place would have been a...

15 Aug 19

Would You Eat This Egg

CarolDM @CarolDM (203422) • Nashville, Tennessee 14 Aug 19

Was starting to cook breakfast just now. Took an egg out of the carton, and there it was. A hole in the egg. The first thing I thought of was, it's alive! And yes, the expiration date on the carton was fine. So the questions...

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Nick R Thomas No, an egg has to look near-perfect for me to eat it, even if it's well within its date.

15 Aug 19

Notes On The Kennedy Clan

J.N.R Dutton @jnrdutton (3183) • United States 15 Aug 19

Anyone even remotely familiar w/U.S. politics knows of the Kennedy clan. It's also well known that the Kennedy's have suffered several major tragedies. Some ages ago, some fairly recent. This has led some people to claim that the...

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Nick R Thomas I wonder if people who talk about the 'Kennedy curse' ever consider the following... Firstly, they are a very large family. More people.= more chance of someone amongst them having bad luck. Secondly, they have been in the public eye for many decades so more...

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One of my former doctors died

Sissy15 @sissy15 (12303) • United States 15 Aug 19

I'm sort of in shock today. I found out one of my former OBs died. He was the first doctor I had when I was pregnant with my son. He was a Scottish man accent and all. They eventually transferred me to a female doctor but I...

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Nick R Thomas Good doctors, especially ones who are great communicators, are worth their weight in gold. We can feel very vulnerable when we lose them

15 Aug 19

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Diary 2nd And 3rd August 2019

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44998) • Preston, England 3 Aug 19

Friday 2nd August 2019 - running into unpleasant conflict with the volunteering group I help out at the university, relating to events mostly taking place in / around May this year. As I mentioned at about that time I was...

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Nick R Thomas Sadly, generously giving your time unpaid often doesn't seem to result in any better treatment than that of an employee.

4 Aug 19

Diary 23rd To 29th July 2019

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44998) • Preston, England 29 Jul 19

Tuesday 23rd July saw my twice postponed mandatory welfare hearing finally take place at short notice. My advisor insists I badger employers turning me down for work as to why they rejected me, and I sensed intent to tighten the...

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Nick R Thomas 'Badger employers?' Would they even respond? A waste of time and no good for your blood pressure.

4 Aug 19

Nude Man Purchases Coffee

ElusiveButterfly @ElusiveButterfly (45940) • United States 20 Jul 19

Earlier this week our little town got an eyeful. An out of towner came to visit. We embrace our tourists, but this one wore no clothes. He entered a local café/gift shop and purchased a coffee and asked of places where he could...

he did wear sneakers

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Nick R Thomas I'd walk somewhere else...quickly.

21 Jul 19

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Diary 1st To 3rd July 2019

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44998) • Preston, England 3 Jul 19

A new month and half way through the year already. The first day decimated my welfare payment as all my direct debits and a few other bills had to go out. I had some voluntary work helping to create course material for the...

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Nick R Thomas These advisors are in work, they're paid, so why do they have to behave like that towards those who would also like to be?

3 Jul 19

How do you like your coffee? With milk or sugar?

sophie a @sophie09 (34236) • Indonesia 2 Jul 19

Good morning from Indonesia. Well it is 6 am here in my place, i just woke up from my bed feeling alright. How about you? Hope everything is fine with you guys. I am not usually a coffee morning person. But i see some of people...

morning

coffee

drink

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Nick R Thomas I am more of a tea drinker but when I have coffee I like it the same way as my tea: no milk, no sugar. At the moment I am using coffee bags which are like tea bags but occasionally I have an instant fusion coffee powder ( 3 in 1) and that does have some milk...

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Glad I Remembered

Mary Guice @Elizaby (6902) • Pensacola, Florida 3 Jul 19

I had just commented on one post and was about to do the same thing on another's post about wheeling the garbage can down the alley for Thursdays pick-up which is our neighborhoods pic-up day when it hit me that there will be no...

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Nick R Thomas In my town in the UK we only have fortnightly collections. It's very difficult to catch up if a collection is missed.

3 Jul 19

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Deactivated or Banned From Earning Site

Frederick Espiritu @simplfred (20641) • Philippines 12 Jun 19

Have you tried being deactivated or banned from one earning site? I am. Sadly, one of the best site where I've earned most of my money online deactivated me. I just don't know the reason why? They haven't emailed me the reason why...

online work

banned

job

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Nick R Thomas That's quite a lot to be earning from a site. Maybe it's like Bubblews a few years ago and can't afford to pay out.

12 Jun 19

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Diary 24th April To 5th May 2019

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44998) • Preston, England 5 May 19

After a week away from home, attending the Ytterbium science fiction convention, the week following my return has been a hectic return to routine. I had to see my welfare officer the day after I returned, though they seemed...

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Nick R Thomas Weddings are expensive to attend. It's the price you pay for being popular and getting invited.

6 Jun 19

Diary 10thTo 16th May 2019 Plus 18th And 19th May 2019

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44998) • Preston, England 19 May 19

Quite a busy week, doing more book promotion though my personal opportunities to sell copies have slowed down. A few friends are interested in seeing copies but not buying them. One friend seemed disappointed not to get a free...

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Nick R Thomas How wonderful to get proper Indian food free. I just pay for the ready meal variety.

6 Jun 19

Diary 20th To 26th May 2019

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44998) • Preston, England 26 May 19

A quiet Monday at home (20th) and a week on a very low budget for me. On the Tuesday I called to the Doctors to pick up a repeat prescription for my blood pressure medications, and collected enough of the necessary drugs for the...

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Nick R Thomas Merchandising at talks is never predictable. There may well be other occasions where a decent percentage of your audience will buy books. I hope you also get booked by some writers' groups and can do a talk about how you put the book together.

6 Jun 19

Book Review The Mad Archives 1

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44998) • Preston, England 27 May 19

2002. DC Comics. Wonderfully daft book collection of the first ever Mad publications, a precursor to the subversive satire driven Mad Magazine (which emerged from this magazine) that would present is in time with Spy V Spy,...

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Nick R Thomas I loved MAD as a teenager. I realised later that it was a huge influence on me Many of its spoofs were of TV shows we never saw in the UK but were so well-written that I got all the humour anyway. I remember newsagent's shops in the 70s having loads of the...

6 Jun 19

The Way People Talk To Writers

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44998) • Preston, England 5 Jun 19

As a writer, I often get people asking me about my writing, ideas, etc. Sometimes the conversation is friendly and intelligent but other times it is less so. 1/. Immediate assumptions that I’m a professional writer. – No, in...

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Nick R Thomas 'What do you do about writer's block?' is another common question. I was once introduced as a writer to an obnoxious woman whose first words to me were 'Never heard of you'. Weeks later I was featured on a TV show and she phoned up to ask me out!

6 Jun 19