December 2010
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Christmas
Christmas Day was a mess of various meats, pickles, pies, chocolate and an overly long and nearly-violent game of Pictionary. At the end we fell into an icy car and returned to Boughton and that was that. A fitful night’s sleep (populated by meat-based dreams) later and we arrive at Boxing Day. England are wiping the floor with the Australians at cricket, later there be football, we all have...
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A festive message
Have now finished work for the year. Feels good. I love my job but it can be a bit draining and it’s nice to have a break.
Currently listening to the Christmas Wittertainment on BBC 5Live. I can’t explain how much I love Wittertainment and, in fact, how much I love 5Live. I almost feel emotional thinking about that radio station.
This morning I bought The Innocent by David Szalay....
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Big Freeze
You might be interested to know that I now have a comprehensive(ish) list of thematic tags. I also have a list of books read/bought/mentioned. This may seem like a pointless waste of time to you, but it’s the sort of thing that makes me happy so give me a break.
Yesterday in the space of 90 minutes the roads around Boughton became blighted by snow. After picking Abi up from work we had to...
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This week's highlights
This week I bought a cool and slightly deadly birthday present for my friend Mike. He turns thirty on Christmas Eve. Another friend, Marcus, turns thirty in March next year. I don’t know if I have any other friends approaching thirty. There must be some, as they’re mostly around the same age. So, for all friends of mine either thirty-plus or approaching thirty, well done. Life begins...
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A daughter
Yesterday we went along to our second scan, slightly ominously titled ‘The Anomaly Scan’. Thankfully, there were no anomalies. We got a good look at a fine, healthy baby who, as it turns out, is female. She has (amongst other things) a good, strong spine, a head, legs and arms, kidneys, a brain. Thankfully, she also has a heart which is beating steadily. The scan was unable to tell us...
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Wasting time pt.2
Having despaired at wasting an hour creating a new blog before disposing of it, I have now wasted another hour updating this blog. Should you be interested in wasting some time of your own, you can now find all of my old blogs linked in one place and all of the fiction of mine that I can find on the internet. Knock yourself out.
Whilst I was at university, I was intent on being published in...
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Wasting time
I don’t quite know why but I just spent an hour creating a new blog in Wordpress, only to discover that all of the themes are shit and you can’t tweak them unless you pay and are good with CSS, which I’m not. So I’m back here, without ever really going anywhere. Below is what I wrote for my first Wordpress post:
“Check this out. Instead of doing something useful, I...
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