Category: life
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Fish Buys Beer
It has been known (some would say fairly infrequently) for me to get the beers in. It has even been known (some would say very infrequently) for me to get lots of beers in. Well, Faris is organising a crimbo Beersphere for Tuesday the 4th and as it’s the season of good will and all…
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Embracing Failure
Rather like this quote from Thomas Edison: "I haven’t failed. I’ve found 10,000 ways that don’t work" Seems strangely au courant.
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Post-it Note Abuse
I admit to having a really bad habit of writing stuff I need to do on post-it notes and letting them accumulate like some kind of disjointed, incoherent to do list. Pretty soon, if I don’t do something about it I’m going to end up like this guy: Image via
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Moving House
It may be a bit quiet around here for a few days as I’m moving house tommorrow (yay!). Back soon though. Image
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Who’s the Funny Looking Bloke in the Corner?
Look who’s popped up on Kevin Robert’s blog. That dodgy goatee gets everywhere…
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Alan Johnston
Don’t normally post about this sort of thing but had to celebrate this morning’s fantastic news that Alan Johnston, the BBC Gaza correspondent who was kidnapped 114 days ago and has been held captive ever since, has been released. There is something about the way that the BBC have stuck by him, championed his cause,…
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The Secret Life of Fruit and Veg
…is finally revealed here . Thanks to Beancounters for opening my eyes
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Tired and emotional
Today I ran a big race. I’ve run a few races before but nothing as big as this one. 20,000 people all running 10K for charity, and it was just great. Fantastic atmosphere and the thing I really loved about it was that most of the charities represented were smaller ones – the kind that…