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Home In The Morning

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I made it to the end of three days on-site in Germany. There is already talk of further visits later in the year - another in two weeks that is already booke...

Walking The City Streets

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After work this evening I dropped my bag at the hotel, changed my clothes, and set out along the river to the bar I have visited for the last several nights....

One Day Down

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The day began at 6am when the alarm clock went off on my mobile phone. This wasn’t the first time I woke up this morning of course, because guess who fell as...

Departure

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It’s 9:04 on Monday morning, and I’m sitting in the departure hall of Terminal 2 at London’s Heathrow Airport. I’ve chosen to sit right in the middle of the ...

Alongside The River

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After arriving at Frankfurt Airport, and picking my way through the various hurdles that have become so familiar, I finally found myself standing in the queu...

Preparing To Fly

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At breakfast time tomorrow morning a taxi will hopefully arrive at the end of our drive, waiting to whisk me to Heathrow Airport, ahead of another week in Fr...

The One Where I Met Greedo

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Miss 17 and I took the twentieth bus out of town this morning - it would have been the first bus, but I couldn’t find any dynamite to explode her out of bed....

Second Thoughts

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I’m having second thoughts about living on my own remote blogging island, out in the middle of nowhere. Just so you know. Does this mean I’m coming back ? Ma...

From One Disaster To The Next

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You know the one where your other half delivers your youngest daughter to the final day of football camp, then drops the car off for it’s MOT (Ministry of Tr...

Thunderbolts And Lightning

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The thunderbolts, lightning, cats, dogs, and whatever else that were forecast to fall on the United Kingdom today are conspicuous by their absence. The vario...