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Name Five Things That Live In The Sea

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We always try and sit together at the table for meals - be that breakfast, lunch at weekends, or evening meals in the week. Quite apart from instilling famil...

Mountain Bikes Punctures And Ass Hattery

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On the way home from work last night the bike started to feel strange - shifting imperceptibly sideways under me. At first I ignored it, and put it down to t...

Thoughts About The Online Community

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I’m betting there must be some kind of mathematical model that describes the clumping of users within blogging communities such as WordPress and Tumblr, and ...

The One Where The Day Went Straight To Hell

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In a spectacular display of ass-hattery, the hosting company of one of the services we use all the time at work decided it would be a good idea to upgrade th...

Saturday Morning

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For the first time in weeks we have nothing planned today. Saying that, it’s tipping down with rain outside. The kids have avoided killing each other so far,...

Falling Out Of The Loop

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I never thought I would say this, but I’ve kind of fallen off the blogging horse. I know it will be temporary, transitory, or any of those other long words p...

Running Around In Circles

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Another day passes, and once again it feels like my feet have hardly touched the ground all day. From the moment the radio alarm clock burst into life at 7am...

Please Excuse My Absence From The Interwebs

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If you’ve been wondering about my relative silence online, it’s because three things happened; I lost it with Windows 8 and formatted the machine at home Goo...

And We Smile

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A little after lunch a window popped open on my desktop, with a single word inside it. “Hello”. The biggest grin spread across my face, and has remained ever...