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Monday

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I almost overslept this morning. I m going to blame the strangest dream I ve had in quite some time. None of it made any sense, but it stuck in my head all...

Adventures with Hugo

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Sunday morning is rapidly vanishing in a storm of washing up, clothes washing, tidying up, and avoiding block-printing mayhem in the lounge (our youngest dau...

Thursday Night and Friday Morning

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I m not entirely sure where the last few days have gone. The word relentless comes to mind - both to describe the working day, and the evenings.

Swimming Against the Tide

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The sky fell this morning. Cats and dogs. Curtain rods. It fell last night too. I will admit to feeling sorry for the young children “trick or treating” for ...

So Near And Yet So Far

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While tinkering with this and that this morning, I stumbled upon the blog of an old friend. Somebody I really shouldn’t have lost touch with, but somehow had...

The God Of Slow Things

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I spoke to a friend on the internet this morning - the first contact with anybody outside my family for a couple of weeks, and we both found ourselves wonder...

A God Of Slow Things

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I spoke to a friend on the internet this morning - the first contact with anybody outside my family for a couple of weeks, and we both found ourselves wonder...

Trying

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How has it been a week since the last time I wrote in the blog? How does this keep happening? In the past I wrote almost every day. How is that possible? Wha...

The Harder You Work

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You know how sometimes life continues on for months on end, without anything in particular happening? The last few years have been a bit like that. And then ...

Paying It Forward

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A few years ago (actually quite a few years ago now) there was a popular twenty something TV drama in the UK that made stars of it’s cast. It’s still on now,...