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Monday

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

One Less Pigeon

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While making a cup of coffee earlier, my youngest daughter ran into the kitchen, pointing into the garden as she ran - our little black rescue-cat was stalki...

Minutes

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One more day until the weekend. Twenty four hours. One thousand four hundred and forty minutes. Actually, that’s a bit of an exaggeration - it’s already head...

Tantrums

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After a bank holiday weekend, I’m back at work. Back in the study. Back in front of my work laptop. For the first time in about five months, I’m wearing some...

Frustrated

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I’m stepping away from the social internet for a while.

Friday

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It’s Friday afternoon, with a bank holiday weekend stretched out ahead. I’m just taking a break from work for a few minutes to write this. It’s been a strang...

Thursday

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It’s nearly 10am, and I’m sitting in the variously titled ‘study’ or ‘junk room’ at home, working. I’m a software developer. My job usually involves sitting ...

Legacy

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I don’t think it’s any secret that I’ve been struggling to post anything worthwhile to the blog for the last six months or so. You might think after nearly e...

A Walk In The Park

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We went for a walk this afternoon in Basildon Park - about an hour from home. Perhaps the highlight of the walk was a dragonfly deciding to land on my knee w...

Hitting It Out Of The Park

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Miss 16 received her exam results yesterday morning - passing eight of the nine exams she took with flying colours. While it’s easy for me to write it, it wa...