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Pretending To Be A Teacher

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I walked the route from Paddington to Euston again this morning. Despite the sub-zero temperatures, the sun shone, and made the 40 minute walk a pleasure, ra...

Slowly Losing Track Of The Days

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The journey in this morning was almost entirely uneventfulalthough I am starting to devote a dark corner of my brain to the behaviour of the staff that sell ...

Notes From Euston Station

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When I arrived at Paddington station this morning, the concourse was filled with people waiting for the underground to open it’s gates againthey close it whe...

Early Mornings

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I’m back in London this weekwhich means getting up at 6am to catch the 7am trainor, as happened this morning, getting up at 6:15am to stumble around the hous...

All Kinds Of Awesome

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I took our youngest daughter into London todayprimarily to do some research for her school project board on volcanoes. Each couple of terms the children are ...

Being The Square Peg

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While listening to a podcast this morning they talked about the increasingly desperate tactics employed by Apple to sell more iPhones. It turns out the lates...

An Unexpected Day Alone

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The plan had been to head out this morning with my other half, and the younger children to stand on the touchline of a muddy football pitch for an hour, befo...

Working From Home

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The day started like any other in recent timesthe children didn’t get out of bed, then complained that we hadn’t woken them up (I think they’ll find we did, ...

Is Tumblr In Trouble

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While cycling to work this morning, I was listening to the DTNS podcast, and Tom Merritt mentioned the numbers reported by Yahoo yesterdayand chief among the...

Being A Busy Idiot

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The beginning of the day should have been a portent. I don’t have to be in the office until 9am most mornings, and I only work 3 miles from homewhich is why ...