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Things That Go Bump In The Night

4 minute read

After reading a few posts about various people’s personal experiences with ghosts recently, I thought it might be interesting to share my own. Only they are ...

Scattered Memories

5 minute read

Today is the last “official” day of my holiday. My other half has returned to work, our middle girl has returned to school, Miss 17 starts her new college co...

The Journey Home

2 minute read

Sound filled the room at 3am this morning, rousing me from fitful dreams and causing me to stumble across the room to reach the phone it was coming from. Aft...

Preparing To Travel

1 minute read

Today feels like we are in a curious sort of limbo. A taxi will arrive outside our house at 6am tomorrow morning to take us to the airport. From there we wil...

Slowly And Quietly

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I’m writing this a few minutes after 9am on Sunday morning. Summer seems to be ebbing away - the mornings are becoming a little colder - a little less inviti...

Books Movies And Music

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This evening finds me filling an Amazon tablet with books, movies, and music ahead of a week spent largely offline. A week away from the internet. A week fil...

Swimming With The Sharks

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Miss 17 received her exam results this morning. The good news? She’s on the design course next year that she failed to quality for this year. The bad news? S...

Every Other Day

2 minute read

I seem to only make it to the blog every other day at the moment, which is ridiculous because I have the week off work. Im knocking around the house doing ch...

Sixteen Thousand Steps

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Sixteen thousand steps. That’s what the Apple Health app tells me, on the shiny new iPhone that’s been in my pocket all day long. Nearly thirteen kilometres....

Two Weeks Off

2 minute read

I finished work at 5:30pm this evening, and cycled home through quiet roads towards home. The majority of the people that would normally be passive aggressiv...