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Resisting The Urge To Vent Spectacularly

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I got back from travelling around the country with work a couple of hours ago. On the final leg of the journey home I picked up a copy of the “Evening Standa...

Dinner For One

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The world malfunctioned this morning - instead of deciding to rain, or to be sunny, it got stuck on the “sprinkler” setting, and drenched the world with a fi...

Returning To Manchester

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Today began like any other work-day - scrambling through breakfast time with the children, before retrieving my bicycle from the shed in the garden, and peda...

A Surprisingly Productive Day

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I woke a little after 7 this morning - with the faint sound of an alarm from another room in the house. The sound finally fell silent, I remembered it was Su...

Crossing The Streams

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About a year ago I reduced the number of people I call a friend on Facebook down to just those I know in the “real world” - old school friends, the parents o...

Thinking Too Much

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I resurrected the WordPress blog yesterday - the one connected to my real name. I had been “taking a break” from it for a few weeks - deciding if I really wa...

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

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Tonight I finally got around to watching”The Perks of Being a Wallflower” - ahead of reading the book, which has been sitting on the shelf in the junk room f...

Scrolling

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I have just spent the last twenty minutes scrolling through other people’s lives on Tumblr - watching their thoughts, dreams, nightmares, hopes, wishes, memo...

Nothing

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It has been a bank holiday in the UK today. I haven’t achieved anything, other than a little tidying up, a little washing up, and a trip to the supermarket t...

Living Vicariously

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I admire so many of the blogging community so much through the photos and thoughts they share. They are all by turns brave, honest, fierce, beautiful, intere...