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Working In The City

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The day started for me at 5:30am, stumbling through the morning routine with a raging headache and creeping out of the house into teaming rain. Four hours la...

The Enormous Waste Of Webspace Bursts Forth

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After several days thought, and a couple of evenings picking away at a wordpress theme, I finally have “my own” blog once more. My own little corner of the i...

Still Trying Out Tumblr

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I’m still trying Tumblr out - it’s an alternative blogging platform to WordPress, and when allied with the Disqus commenting platform it seems to work very w...

Holiday Crash And Burns

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Its late (the day after), so I’m not going to spend a great deal of time writing the story up tonight - suffice to say our tent suffered structural failure, ...

Somewhere Safe

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While filling various sports bags with clothes in readiness to go camping this afternoon, we glanced from the upstairs window and spied a certain little cat ...

Going Camping

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We are off camping tomorrow - taking the children on their first experience of the great outdoors (well… as much of the outdoors as the westcountry can summo...

The Wisdom Of Children

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While sat watching Superman Returns with the kids this morning, they came out with something that illustrates the workings of a child’s mind far better than ...

Flirting With Tumblr

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I’m flirting with the idea of using Tumblr for a personal blog once again - given the shorter nature of my posts recently, it would seem like a more persuasi...

A Beginning Of Sorts

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Get the trumpets out. Blow them pretty hard. With no further ado, no quarter spared, and a promise of no further clichd figures of speech, I bestow “The Enor...

Nothing To Report

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If you are wondering why there have been few blog posts from Beckett Towers over the last few days, it will be because of a lack of news. Rather than followi...