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Lunchtime Thoughts

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It’s Monday lunchtime, and you find me sitting in the junk room at home. I’ve been here on weekdays since the middle of March. Nearly four months now. The on...

Has It Really Been A Week

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Has it really been a week since the last blog post? You would think the absence of pretty much anything from me over the last few days would mean an impendin...

Out Of The Loop

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It’s Sunday afternoon, and you find me holed up in the junk room at home, forcing myself to empty my head into the keyboard. The broken toe is slowly healing...

Life Support

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It’s nearly a week since my last blog post. In terms of ‘falling off the blogging horse’, this isn’t so much ‘fallen off the horse’, as ‘let the horse free, ...

Friday

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For those that don’t know, I very rarely write blog posts straight into the Wordpress editor interface - I used to write everything in a text editor, save it...

Toes And Teeth

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Somehow I have managed to break a toe, and a tooth. I know, it sounds ridiculous. On Tuesday morning the phone rang, and I ran through the house barefoot to ...

The Last Of Three Brothers

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Our enormous ginger tom cat “George” is back in hospital tonight. After a major operation last week to save his life, complications arose over the weekend. W...

Virtual Flight

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This “virtual flight” thing is addictive. While most people have been reading books, and watching TV shows during lockdown, I have been learning how to opera...

Friday

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Yes, I’m still here. No, I haven’t shut the blog down (yet). If the last few years have taught me anything, it’s that I’ll always return. Eventually. I’m won...

Windows Doors And Motorbikes

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The builders arrived at 8am this morning with a van full of windows and doors for our house. We have lived here for 20 years. The house is something like 80 ...