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Slowing Everything Down

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It’s my second day off work, and the world finally seems to be slowing down. Yesterday was spent washing and drying clothes, fetching children from holiday a...

Tiny Letters

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I’m thinking about giving”Tiny Letter” a try. It’s owned by MailChimp, and is provided as a free service for individuals - it lets people subscribe to you, a...

The First Of Three Days

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I have three days off work, starting today. I didn’t even wake up until 8:30am. How does that work? Usually I’m awake and up at 7am. Maybe I need to add one ...

Turning The Pedals

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Cycling to work this morning seemed like hard work. It’s amazing how sitting in a hotel for a week can take the formerly super-human strength from your legs ...

Nerding Out

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Would you like to know why I didn’t write a blog post yesterday? Would youreally like to know why? Then I shall begin.I spent several hours yesterday migrat...

Running On Empty

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I’m not entirely sure how I’m going to make it through this blog post. I’m home, I’m sitting at the desk in the junk room, and I’m typing. It’s been a long d...

Oreillys

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After work this evening I changed from the vaguely smart shirt and trousers I wear every day (clean shirt each day, obviously), into the vaguely less smart j...

The End Of The Beginning

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I woke several times during the early hours of the morning and checked my phone for messages in the aftermath of yesterday’s awful news. I buried my head in ...

Watching The Clock

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When I woke at 6am this morning, I instinctively checked my phone for messages, and discovered my flight to Germany had been cancelled. Ten minutes later, wh...