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The One Where I Talk About Books

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After reading Quarter Rest earlier, I realised it might be an idea to have a page here at PluggedOut about the books I am either reading, or have recently re...

Telling The Children

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Our future children were told of our existence today - told that they have a new Mummy and Daddy. Their foster carer broke the news early this afternoon arme...

10 Websites To Get You Through The Day

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I thought it might be interesting for others, and maybe helpful to share the websites I frequent on a regular basis. I spent inordinate amounts of time campe...

Images From London

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With one day left on my contract in London, I have started taking photographs of colleagues and places - and writing a lot in my notebook.

4 Days Left In London

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It is Monday morning. I have 4 days left working in London. In a strange sort of way I am going to miss the people I work with - for the last 10 months I hav...

Find Me Some Christmas Spirit

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For some reason, Christmas isn’t happening in our house. Neither of us have any will to do anything remotely connected with Christmas. We’re wondering if it’...

Fishy Fishy Fishy

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I promised to post some photos of our fish, and here they are…

Rumours Of My Demise

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The reason for so few blog posts - and so few comments from me on other’s blogs over the last several days - has been the finale in the saga of my body’s def...

Mybook Solves Storage Problem

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The nice man from the post office arrived at our door yesterday carrying a parcel from Amazon. Unwrapping it revealed the Western Digital “MyBook” we bought ...