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Rebellion Brewery Open Weekend

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This weekend marked the bi-annual open-weekend of our local brewery, the Rebellion Beer company. About a week ago an email did the rounds asking who was goin...

On The Train

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Well this is novel… I’m sitting on the train, travelling from Wycombe to Warwick, typing this from the bluetooth keyboard into the Evernote app on the Kindle...

Carrying Miss 10 Home

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I picked our younger two daughters up from their dance class yesterday evening while my other half went to the “new starter” evening at the local “big” schoo...

The Reluctant Traveller

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On Sunday night I have to get on a train to begin a five hour journey to the other end of the country with work. I will stay in a hotel for 4 nights, a short...

Returning To A Real Camera

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While sorting through photographs the other evening to upload to our Amazon Fire TV (which provides a wonderful photographic slide-show screen-saver on the t...

Drawing Boobs Is Hard

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While wandering around town yesterday, I bought a sketchbook for myself. I haven’t drawn athingin about ten years - which is a shame, seeing that I sat throu...

On The Subject Of Heroes

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This morning I wandered up to the middle school summer fete, arriving in time to see our younger children take part in a dance performance. After making conv...

A First Year Of Football Comes To A Close

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After finishing work this evening I cycled home from the office, and stopped off along the way to pick up dinner for our eldest daughter and myself. The rest...

The Wheels On The Bus

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While sitting at my desk this morning, waiting for my computer to lurch ponderously into life, I started to drift off. The morning had been an endless rush f...

Tiredness Abounds

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I’m not entirely sure how I’m still awake. At 3am this morning one of our daughters called out quietly from her bedroom doorway, and woke me instantly in the...