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Further Adventures In Azeroth

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Who knew that sneaking through the back woods of a fictional world, running errands for inn keeper’s daughters, and dealing with infestations of things that ...

The Bloggers I Remember

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At lunchtime today I was flicking through Darren Rowse’s “31 Days to Build a Better Blog” exercises, after passing the link on to a friend who is just starti...

Let It Snow Let It Snow Let It Snow

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The snow began falling as I cycled home last night. Snowflakes are surprisingly painful when your angular momentums coincide at sufficient velocity (that pro...

Thoughts About Leaving Tumblr

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At the risk of covering this subject to death and then some, I wanted to write a bit about Tumblr - and my reasons for walking away from it. I made a lot of ...

Revisiting Mary Annings Remarkable Creatures

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In a stroke of genius following a horrendous morning, I booked two days off work next week to coincide with half term. You might be wondering why the term “g...

Returning To Normality

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After the trials and tribulations of travelling with work, today marked a return to “normal”. My normal. The one where I fall out of bed before I really want...

Another Morning In The Coffee Shop

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I am now the proud owner of a Costa Coffee card. I just picked one up from the counter while ordering exactly the right thing, using exactly the right langua...

On The Road Again

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It’s Monday morning, and I’m sat in a coffee shop hundreds of miles from home. The day began for me at 6 this morning, rolling out of bed moments before the ...

Home Is Where The Key Fits

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Welcome to my humble abode for the evening. I’m not going to tell you exactlywhich hotel, owned by exactlywhich chain I am in, for fear of betraying my posit...

Winter Wonderland

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It had been forecast for days. Levels of excitement around the younger members of the household had been escalating dangerously all afternoon. Our promises o...