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Friday Morning

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It’s Friday, and you find me holed up in the junk room at home, putting together another quiz. This evening the company I work for are having a “virtual soci...

Almost Midnight

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It’s been a day. Somehow it’s already heading towards midnight, and I’ve only just sat down to write something. I know, I know - I could scratch today, and w...

Unfollowing Drama Queens

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I’m sitting at the dining table this morning, opposite our youngest daughter who is getting on with school work. My other half is in the junk room, working. ...

Running The Roads

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Last autumn I took part in the “Couch to 5K” running programme at the local running club - to support my eldest daughter both with her fitness, and in her ba...

Jackanory

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You find me sitting at the desk in the junk room - sipping coffee, looking back over the morning in my bullet journal, and half-watching the indicators at th...

Coffee Cake And Secrets

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I’m sitting in the relative quiet of the junk room at home, listening to spotify, sipping coffee, and finishing off a piece of cinnamon swirl my other half m...

Slowing Down

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While juggling various requests from my daughters, friends, emails, and instant messages today, I realised that I need to take a step back from everything fo...

Rambling On And On

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Rather than talk to anybody in particular on the podcast this week, I’m talking to myself. I’m pretty sure this is a direct route to madness, but I’ll risk i...

Quiz City

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This evening I performed the role of “Quiz Master” for a quiz with the staff and families of the school where my other half works. We used “Zoom”, and I crea...

Playing Games

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I didn’t post to the blog yesterday, after a “run” of several weeks. I imagine the universe will now fall in on itself. I did begin wondering though - if the...