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Bumhole

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No, this blog post is not about questionable sexual escapades - apologies if that’s what you were expecting. It’s also not about a lunatic shooting somebody ...

Tinkering

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I have spent the evening tinkering with the new “Twenty Nineteen” theme that’s in sort-of-secret development at WordPress. It’s not generally available yet, ...

Procrastinating Famously

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I’m sitting at work, in the middle of the afternoon, procrastinating famously. It feels like I’ve been living in a bubble recently - apart from the co-worker...

Phone Charge Anxiety

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While traveling home from London on Saturday evening, the battery on my mobile phone died - much to the amusement of my eldest daughter, who I had accompanie...

Black Cats

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It’s now a couple of weeks since we said goodbye to Sam, and whispered conversations have begun to gather pace around the house - wondering if George, the re...

Hyperjapan

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I’m catching the early train to London tomorrow morning with Miss 18 - we are visiting HyperJapan - an expo of everything to do with Japanese culture - food,...

Disappointed

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While noodling around on the web this evening, I looked at a few of the more famous “A-List” blogs - to see if they are still going - and if their writing is...

Crossing The Finish Line

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I wonder if it’s against the rules to wrap up this idiotic escapade with a few words about the experience of taking part in NaNoWriMo ?

Nearing The Summit

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I’m not really sure why I’m trying to write fifty thousand words during November any more - I’m just kind of “doing it”, because I thought it would be a roma...

Halfway There

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It feels like I’ve broken the blogging or journaling habit. While writing upwards of two thousand words a day for “National Novel Writing Month”, it hasn’t e...