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A Weekend Filled With Football And Dance

5 minute read

I’m sitting in the dark of the study on my own, a little after 9pm on Sunday night, contemplating the remaining few hours of the weekend. It’s tempting to sa...

Doing Nothing On Purpose

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It’s Friday night, and I’ve been kicking around the house doing nothing on purposewhich sounds tremendously lazy, but given the week I’ve had, hopefully nobo...

Other People Have Evenings

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It’s just gone 11pm. This is first chance I have really had to sit down and do what I want since getting out of bed at 7am this morning. I didn’t even get to...

The One Where The New Bike Arrived

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I worked from home this morningpartly to keep an eye on our eldest daughterwho will remain another subject for another time for quite some time to comeand pa...

Rediscovering Half Life 2

2 minute read

While searching through GoG (“Good Old Games”a wonderful retro games website) last night for something to play, I suddenly remembered that there is still an ...

Emily

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Once upon a timewhile wandering the internet in search of interesting, thought provoking blogs to followI discovered one of perhaps the most exceptional blog...

Charge Plug 0

less than 1 minute read

After a couple of hours reading reviews, and weighing up the various pros and cons, I put an order in for a new bike this morninga “Charge Plug 0”. It’s a si...

Bank Holiday Weekend

2 minute read

The house seems strangely quiet this morning. Our younger daughterswho would normally be into the second hour of a Mario Kart marathon by noware not here. Th...

Land Of The Pretty People

4 minute read

From the moment I packed the children off to school this morning, I sat down at the computer in the junk room, and raced to help one of my co-workers prepare...

There And Back Again

3 minute read

In time honoured tradition I woke up five minutes before the alarm clock was scheduled to go off. Squinting across the corner of the bed, the numbers slowly ...