Category: life
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Difficult Second Album Syndrome
First post after a break and it's feeling a bit like Difficult Second Album Syndrome (ie. not exactly flowing) but hey, here goes anyway. Whilst I was away I heard Bill Bryson (of all people) on the radio talking about how beautiful the English countryside is. Away in Cornwall for the last week I've been…
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Gone Fishing
I'm away for a week so normal service will be resumed very soon. Have a great week.
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8 Things You (Probably) Don’t Know About Me
I’ve been tagged by Eaon on a "8 things you don’t know about me" meme, so it’s only sporting to participate. 8 seems like quite a lot so I’m going to keep this brief:1. I used to be a Goth (I know) which meant I had a bleached blonde mohican and my ears pierced six…
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Chicken Run
The chickens are laying again and it’s time to build them a new home. War wounds: It’s a chicken palace:
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Life In Six Words
Image courtesy The other day I stumbled upon a charming idea from Larry Smith, Editor of Smith, the US based online magazine, which takes a Hemingway anecdote as it’s inspiration. Back in the 20’s, Hemingway apparently bet ten dollars that he could write a complete story in just six words. He wrote: "For sale: baby…
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Memes Like Buses
Image courtesy No memes for a month and then I get tagged on two on the same day. Just like buses. So I thought I’d aggregate my response here in one post for the sake of interest and brevity. First up, Asi tagged me (thanks Asi) on the current meme sweeping the sphere – ‘My…
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The Dog Ate My Homework
Image: Max on the Beach At the turn of the year I said that I was going to learn how to juggle. I’ve been progressing rather well at this but have been thwarted by the disappearance of one of my juggling balls. I have a strong suspicion that the dog ate it. But I refuse…
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Distracted
Ever had one of those days where somehow your attention is a bit all over the place? Yesterday I managed to leave my book on the train, my watch at work, my gym kit in a taxi, and my brain at home. I’m not sure why this happened. It was a busy day but that’s…
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Kryptonite Exists
Image courtesy Jon has been manfully posting his series of ’10 things we didn’t know last week’ for the past year. In tribute to such a heroic effort, I thought I might pick out my favourite five quirky facts from this enormous list of quirkology: Antony and Cleopatra were ugly. More than half (52%) of…