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Hotel Life

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It’s 7:50am, and I’m back from the hotel restaurant after attempting to eat a cooked breakfast big enough to feed most entire families. I don’t usually bothe...

Heading Back To Yorkshire

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My backpack and suitcase are packed, my personal phone, work phone, and tablet are charged, and I’m debating on polishing my walking boots, rather than wear ...

An Update On The Bullet Journal

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For the past few months I have been trying out a “Bullet Journal”. Rather than re-purpose my pre-existing Moleskine notebook, I went out and bought an offici...

Let Social Media Inspire You

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Today’s writing prompt for the WordPress Blogging University “Every Day Inspiration” challenge is to “let social media inspire you” - to go look at social me...

Where Do You Write

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Today’s writing prompt from the WordPress Blogging University “Every Day Inspiration” course asks me to describe the place I write. I think I’ve described th...

The Colour Of Magic

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Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong. The above ...

The One Where I Met Myself

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While getting on with my work this morning - yes, it happens sometimes - I noticed a raft of emails arriving in Google Mail, and curiosity got the better of ...

Replying To The Past

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I was reminded by a wonderful friend this morning that back in 2007 I wrote a post on the blog titled “A Letter to my Future Self [https://strangecodex.wordp...

A Story In A Single Image

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The Blogging University “Everyday Inspiration” prompt for today is “A Story in a Single Image” - encouraging you to look at a selection of photos accompanyin...

Regret

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For the better part of 2007 and 2008 I commuted into London each day - leaving the house at 6:45am each morning, and returning at 7pm each evening. The door-...