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Theme Park

3 minute read

Today marked the last “day off work” of my staycation. We decided earlier in the week to gather all of our various coupons together, and spend the day at “Th...

Running Out Of Days

2 minute read

It’s Thursday morning, and the days of my “stay-cation” are slowly ebbing away. Just today, tomorrow, and the weekend left. After that I will be back to the ...

Mobile Phone Madness

4 minute read

While sitting in Starbucks with Miss 16 this morning, taking the regulation photograph of my coffee cup that all people with Instagram accounts are required ...

Refusing To Play The Game

2 minute read

I have been writing a personal blog, and publishing it to the internet for somewhere in the region of fifteen years now. Throughout that time I have never “p...

Victoria And Albert

7 minute read

The alarm on my mobile phone ripped into life at 6am this morning, and woke me with a start. I was in the middle of an intense dream about something or other...

The Bullet Journal

3 minute read

At the start of this year I gave serious consideration to ditching the Filofax I have been carrying around for the better part of the last decade, and using ...

Unblogging

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If you’re doing a double take, and wondering where you’ve seen this post before, you might recall that I posted it back in February 2014. It’s in the archive...

Birthdays Friends Beer And Video Games

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I’m amazed I don’t have a hangover this morning. I visited a friend last night to help celebrate his birthday - he had organised a “boy’s night”, complete wi...

The Junk Room

5 minute read

This morning I took it upon myself to clear up the “junk room”. We are fortunate enough in our ramshackle house to have a room that isn’t really used for any...

A Nice Day For A Walk

4 minute read

For the first few days of our self-imposed “staycation”, we have been knocking around the house, or wandering into town for one thing or another. Today we de...