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The Calm Before The Storm

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We have three girls coming to visit for a sleepover tonight. Add that to the three girls already in the house, and I can’t imagine us getting much sleep. It’...

Podcasts

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I began listening to podcasts during the time I worked in London. I sat on trains for the best part of 4 hours each day, and discovered the various shows cre...

Nope

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Today’s exercise for the WordPress “Blogging 101” course is titled “Spruce up your Sidebar”, and asks us to add a couple of widgets to the sidebar of our blo...

Organising The Chaos

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Many years ago I wrote a post about the “Getting Things Done” methodology. At the time, the book by David Allen had just come out in paperback, and was being...

On Any Morning

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The day began with a squint at the radio alarm clock next to the bed, which had begun filling the bedroom with the local radio station. Ispent a minute or tw...

Not Playing The Personalisation Game

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Today’s assignment for the Blogging 101 course asks us to create and upload a simple header, and/or background, and to try a custom widget. I’m not doing it,...

Down The Internet Rabbit Hole

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I just registered this blog at Bloglovin. I’m still undecided if I have placed one foot on a polished slide that heads straight to the depths of blogging hel...

People Watching

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Some time ago I wrote a post about the pretty lady that rents out the house opposite the office where I work - about our chance encounters on mornings and ev...

Making The About Page Irresistable

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This feels like cheating. It’s half past midnight, so technically Monday morning, but still Sunday night in my head. I was supposed to be heading off to bed,...