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Sunday Morning

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It’s heading towards 11am. The younger children have gone to a rugby tournament. I am staying home to keep an eye on Miss 14, who went spectacularly nuclear ...

Still Looking For The Weekend

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Got up before everybody else this morning, made everybody else breakfast, washed up, took youngest to football practice, wandered home, made everybody lunch,...

Wild Goose Chase

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While cycling home from work this evening I listened to “The Ihnatko Almanac”, a podcast on the 5by5 network, featuring Andy Ihnatko - the tech columnist for...

Cutting Up

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On the way to work this morning a 44 that had been stuck behind me on the mountain bike for all of five seconds came thundering past, obviously in a hurry to...

Forced From The Road

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My journey to work on the mountain bike takes me through perhaps the oldest part of town - narrow victorian streets, with narrow footpaths on either side. Th...

15 Things I Love

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Tagged by Lacey over at Tumblr. I have no idea how I’m going to come up with 15 things, but I’ll have a go. These are in no particular order, just in case yo...

Second Cup Of Coffee

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My word - this blog is just stunningly interesting this week. I literally have nothingto write about. Actually, that’s a lie - I do have something to write a...

Raspberry Pi

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I just ordered a Raspberry Pi model B+ from Amazon, for delivery to work later in the week. I have no idea why I have ordered it. I have no real use for it, ...

One Foot In Front Of The Other

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Every day at the moment seems like a struggle just to get to the next day - an endless round of washing up, tidying up, settling arguments, and so on. It som...

Three Glasses Hemingway

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After collapsing on the couch late this evening, and sharing a few glasses of leftover wine from the Halloween party with my better half (a wonderful bottle ...