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Tiredness Overwhelms

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It’s 2:30pm on Friday afternoon. I have just come home from work early. My body is still running at a ridiculous temperature. It made no sense to sit at my d...

Losing Interest In A Book

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For my birthday this year my family bought me a new Kindle. I had forgotten all about putting it on my Amazon wish-list, so the surprise was wonderful when t...

Here All Week

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I discovered today that I will be in London all week. All I have seen so far is an email notification from a project plan update. I’m not really expecting an...

Bank Holiday Monday

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Today didn’t really happen. Well… of course it did, but it doesn’t feel like it happened. I feel like I haven’t achieved anything of consequence.

Four Year Old House Guests

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We are looking after a little man for a friend this weekend. He arrived in a blizzard of bags, clothes, sticky-up hair, and jumbled converstion yesterday mor...

Into The Woods

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After a pretty ridiculous working week that saw me leaving the house early in the morning, spending hours on trains rumbling towards London and back, standin...

In The Audience For A Change

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Normally when I set an alarm on the Kindle tablet, I wake up a few minutes it before it. This morning it was set to go off at 5:30am. I woke up at 4:30, 4:45...

One More Day In London

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My three day stint as a teacher is over for this week. That doesn’t mean the early starts have quite finished though - I’ll be returning to London once more ...

The One Where There Were No Train Tickets

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I arrived at the train station at 7:10am, a few minutes before the train departed towards London, in plenty of time to purchase a train ticket. A large, port...