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Signs Of Life

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I feel like I’ve fallen off the blogging bike again. In a strange sort of way, the longer you don’t post anything for, the less you have to say when you retu...

Panic Stations

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My parents are coming to visit. Tomorrow. For the first time in ten years. It’s worth mentioning that they live down on the coast, and we get on famously - i...

Testing Myself

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After a day spent cheering on both of our younger daughters at back-to-back rugby matches this afternoon (literally back-to-back - they were playing on paral...

Lagunitas

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We went out for a few drinks with co-workers last night - to a bar in town that was refurbished some months ago. It’s worth noting how rarely we make it out ...

By Any Other Name

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I’ve been wrestling with the idea of changing the name of this blog over the last few days - away from my name to something vaguely interesting and different...

Nine Minutes At A Time

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I went to the running club with Miss 19 again tonight - we’re now half-way through the “Couch to 5K” programme. We ran three lots of nine minutes, with one m...

The End Of A Very Long Stick

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I’m not doing NaNoWriMo this year. I’m keeping it at the end of a very long stick. There’s a very strong possibility that I may never do NaNoWriMo again. If ...

Let There Be Light

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If you’re visiting this blog post via WordPress, you’ll have noticed a rather drastic re-design has happened. Given that autumn colours are surrounding us at...

Saturday Evening 10Pm

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I knocked on Miss 19’s bedroom door earlier this evening, and enquired if we were going running. Given that she was still in her pajamas, and that I was stru...

Finishing Last

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We attended yet another fund-raiser quiz last night - this time for the local hockey team. My other half put a call out on social media for team mates, and w...