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Wembley Stadium

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We got on a train early this afternoon to Wembley Stadium in London, to watch the women’s FA Cup final between Manchester City and Birmingham. I suspected on...

Tinkering Again

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For the last few months I have kept two blogs going - one at Tumblr, which is easy and fast, and one at WordPress, that looks nicer, but is more time consumi...

Falling Off The Blogging Horse

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I feel like I’ve fallen off the blogging horse just recently. It’s not just that I’m having trouble getting back on - more that I’m wondering”what’s the poin...

Dont Be A Stranger

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Over the past couple of days I began todoubt if my membership of Second Life might go anywhere. I logged in a couple of times, but as is usual, life the univ...

Distant Loss

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Somebody I vaguely knew via the internet died today. She was not the first, and will not be the last, but it was another reminder that our time on this plane...

Worlds Without End

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A few days ago I wrote about Second Life - the virtual reality portal that burst onto the internet perhaps 15 years ago, burned hotter than the sun for a few...

Second Life

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Late last night I started watching a documentary on Netflix about Second Life - the online virtual reality community “game” that appeared about ten or fiftee...

Crossing Paths Again

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On Monday evening, shortly after arriving back from the coast with a car full of dirty clothes,I turned tail with our youngest daughter and walked into town ...

Minimum Effort

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I’ve been trying to write this blog post for the last three hours. Being honest, writing ranks lower than any other draw on my time - which probably explains...

A Weekend Away

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I was going to begin this post with some sort of clever remark about nobody searching me out to discover where I have been for the last few days, but then re...