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Monday Should Come With An Escape Plan

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At about 6am this morning the sun was shining outside, the sky was blue, and that appeared to be all the encouragement the chickens needed to tell the entire...

The Things We Do To Avoid Being Shouted At

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I don’t think it would be entirely innacurate to make the statement “I hate gardening more than anything else in the world”. Actually, there are a few other ...

Winning On Friday

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I’m not entirely sure what happened to this week. It started badly, carried on being bad, and has now kind of fizzled out into the weekend (which will in all...

The Start Of Something Marvellously Idiotic

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After posting a scruffy cartoon of myself on Tumblr the other day, a couple of friends around the internet banded together into an army of two or three, and ...

Procrastinating With Style

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There should be a warning sticker on my forehead when I go to job interviews”if given pens and paper, will get nothing done”. While not entirely true, it’s t...

Living With Psychotic Maniacs

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This photo (and the events of this morning, which I will get to later) are all the proof anybody should ever need that cats are not nice, cuddly, friendly cr...

Falling Through The Cracks

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This post has sat in an open window on my desktop for over an hour so far. I guess most of the reason it got no further than half a sentence (that I just del...

Secretly Despicable

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This afternoon we have secret tickets for a family outing to the cinema to see Despicable Me 2. The children have no idea at allin an outrageous exploitation...

Deep Under The Ground With Minecraft

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Welcome to my refuge from the lurking horrors of the dark. It might look like a fairly ordinary bedroom, replete with books, pictures, torches, and a bed, bu...

A Healthy Fear Of Telephones

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The telephone just rang on my desk, and a wave of dread crashed across the desk. I picked it up on the second ring, and went through the usual “work greeting...