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Packing My Bags

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This evening I’m packing my bags to head away for a few days with work. I’ll be back on Thursday night. Although this sounds ridiculous, I can’t say on a pub...

Monkeybars And Pants

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We saw the girls for perhaps an hour all dayspread across breakfast, lunch, and dinner time. We seem to have won the battle in terms of encouraging “outside”...

Look At The Size Of That Thing

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We visited the big school in town last night for the first time with our eldest daughterthe school she will be moving up to next September. It’s funny really...

Insanely Great

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At some time after midnight last night I was checking twitter, and saw a post from Pete Cashmore at Mashable appear at the top of the stream”Steve Jobs has d...

The Bag Of Holding

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I’ve been sorting out the contents of the bag I carry aroundthinning it out a bit. I picked it up at the weekend as I left the house to travel to W’s parents...

Homework Rivalry And Taking Away

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After dinner this evening I found myself sat at the dinner table with our eldest daughter (the artist formerly known as Miss 10). I had just finished washing...

Getting Back On The Blogging Horse

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For the past several years I have lived a curious online existencefloating between the various social networks and blog platforms. I’ve been searching for an...

Internet Outages Pizza And Dinosaurs

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The internet officially broke today. You might think I’m being a little melodramatic, but I clearly saw a triangular yellow sign with an exclamation mark on ...

The Final Sunday Of The Summerautumnwinter

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It’s difficult to believe it’s Octoberit’s been bakingly hot all day. We had nothing planned for the day, and following the arrival of a friend’s son at our ...