Staff Table At The Quiz Night
Last night I joined the staff table for a fund-raising quiz-night at the local infant school - the one my other half works at. I’ve been to countless similar...
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Making Plans
It’s Saturday. The washing machine and tumble dryer are rumbling away in the background. I’ve just made lunch for everybody - I expect I’ll be washing up beh...
Tiredness Abounds
I’m not sure that I have a blog post in me tonight - and yet here I am, sitting in the junk room, tapping away at the keyboard. I’m grinning - remembering a ...
Work Work Work
I’m writing this from the junk room at home. I got back about an hour ago, and am still decompressing. My other half and the younger girls are at their dance...
Working And Writing
I realised today that the mountain I’m climbing at work is steeper than I thought. I’m tempted to dig in and work nights to get ahead of the game, but I’m no...
Nightmares
When I was young, I sometimes had a recurring nightmare about walking through the subway beneath the road behind our house. The subway lead to the nearest pl...
Strange Dreams
It’s rare that I remember dreams. I sometimes wonder if we only remember them if they happen just before we wake up - that’s what happened this morning. Of c...
Reaching Out
If you see a friend request on Facebook from me, I decided to give up on the whole ‘cut Facebook back to close family and friends’ thing, because I ended up ...
Headache From Hell
I left work early today, after fighting a headache that kept getting worse. It got to the point where I was squinting at the computer screen in front of me, ...
The Rugby Tournament
After scraping ourselves out of bed this morning, we all set about filling the car with boot-bags, mouth-guards, and collosal quantities of food before setti...