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Not Being There

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I haven’t said anything about this on my blog yet - but half the reason for me spending so much time with the children recently has been because I knew what ...

Would You Still Read Me If I Wrote Elsewhere

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Those who have read my various writing online will know I have had blogs at pretty much all of the more noteable hosts - WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr, Posterou...

Ive Done It Again Havent I

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My blog is back at WordPress - hosted by their good selves rather than me. I haven’t so much gone “full circle”, as started another lap. Hopefully this will ...

Just A Few Words

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It’s 11:34pm on Sunday night, and I’m scraping inside the deadline for NaBloWriMo (I have to post every day this month to get away with it). I know I could a...

Saturday With The Children

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From the moment I woke this morning until the moment they fell asleep this evening, I have spent the day with the children - it’s the first time I have done ...

Retro Labels Decluttering And Giving Stuff Away

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Given that I wrote a rather philosophical post a few days ago about the attachment of labels to people, the irony has not escaped me that I bought a Dymo lab...

Remember Remember The 5Th Of November

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For generations (the last 400 years in fact), English families have taught the rhyme to their children “Remember, Remember, the 5th of November”. The rest of...

Geeking Out With Ubuntu Netbook Remix

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A couple of evenings ago I slotted a spare hard drive into my ASUS EEE 1000H netbook, and installed the latest build of Ubuntu Netbook Remix. If you have no ...