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One Day Left

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On the occasion of spending my last evening away for the year, I went out for a meal at the pub next door to the hotel. The following is more-or-less a direc...

Eating Alone

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This evening you find me sitting alone in my hotel room, surrounded by the leftovers of a rather ramshackle dinner. Seeing as I have very little else to do t...

Awkward

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I just finished watching the first season of the TV show “Awkward”. I downloaded it onto the Kindle Fire the morning I left. I wrote yesterday that I liked t...

On The Road Again

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We pulled out of Euston 1 minute early (that’s never happened before). Currently hurtling across North London, watching the grey skies, industrial units and ...

More Thoughts About The Death Of Tumblr

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Late last week an acquiantance in the US attended a marketing conference, where one of the panels featured a staffer from Tumblrthe minimalist blogging platf...

Mobile Blogging Solution

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I’ve had a Kindle Fire tablet for the last few yearsit was originally bought for the children, but then got “handed down” to me when they moved on to bigger ...

Preparing To Travel

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I’m not quite sure how this works, but I always end up travelling to the other end of the country in the final week before Christmas. This year I will spend ...

Peter Pan

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This evening we took the children to see the pantomime performance of “Peter Pan” at the local theatre. After talking to a friend elsewhere in the world earl...

Back To Basics

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Every so often I realise I’m trying too hard at this blogging larkpre filtering everything I might write, instead of just emptying my head into the keyboardr...

The Day Tumblr Died

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Perhaps I’m being a little dramatic. Today at a marketing conference, Tumblr staffers on a panel confirmed while answering a question about the potential ret...