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Sushi

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It’s our eldest daughter’s birthday today. Somehow she is 20 years old. I still think of her as the unsure 7 year old that walked through our door thirteen y...

More Running More Coffee

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Some good friends came over last night and sat outside with us while I cooked food on the barbecue. I somehow managed to drink two thirds of a bottle of wine...

Nineteen Years

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Almost exactly nineteen years ago, in about half an hour if memory serves, I stood at the business end of a church in Oxfordshire, waiting for the future Mrs...

Running And Coffee

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I scraped myself out of bed before 7am this morning and went for a run. I must be mad. Or feeling guilty that I haven’t been running (or done any sort of phy...

Drama Queens

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It’s Sunday afternoon, and the sun is shining. I expect the rest of the family will expect me to wander out into the back garden soon and start the barbecue....

Im Coming Too

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I meant to write something late last night. I got as far as writing “it’s half past midnight”, but somehow didn’t get any further.

Thursday

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The clock ticked past midnight forty five minutes ago.

People Ruin Everything

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Slowly but surely, we’re headed back towards lockdown - because some people think they know better than everybody else. And yes, I’m absolutely talking about...

Priorities

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I just got back from a walk through the warm evening air to the supermarket and back. It was intended as a mental health walk of sorts - I’ve been going incr...

Mostly Offline

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I was going to to title this post “Working from Home”, but this is my life now - working from home.