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Late Lunch Break

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Here we are again. I ate my lunch at half past twelve, but carried on workingit’s now 3:30pm. I have a conference call in an hourand am sorely tempted to dow...

Have I Really Changed

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I received a nice message from somebody thismorning somebody who used to be “somebody” on Tumblr. As far as I was concerned,she was one of the “Tumblr A-List...

Make The Voices Stop

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I noticed earlier this evening that my Tumblr account has gained theability to write comments on other people’s posts, and to see comments written by others....

Watching From The Shadows

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I often feel like the world is passing me by. I get up each day, go to work, bash my head against the desk for a few hours, return home, do chores and go to ...

Dawn Of Justice

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Following the football match we were supposed to be watching this afternoon being called off, I managed to sneak off to the cinema this afternoon and watch “...

Inventing Chocolate Egg Fairies

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What is Easter to you ? To me it’s a time or the year when we eat enough chocolate to render a large Rhinoceros very poorly indeed. To many others it’s a tim...

The One Where I Bought My Own Easter Egg

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I went shopping at 4pm this afternoon for Easter eggsbecause otherwise our kids wouldn’t have had any at all. Let’s try to ignore that my other half spent th...

Not All Friendships Are Equal

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I wrote some time agothat writing a public blog on the internet feels a lot like sitting in the middle of the street, with your life scattered around for pas...

A Secret Loneliness

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While swimming against the tide for months or years on end, struggling to keep your head above waterto keep your boat pointing in vaguely the right direction...

Pancakes For Breakfast

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Today is a bank holiday in the UK. Despite the separation of Church and State here, Easter dictates that everybody gets Friday and Mondayoff. I’m not complai...