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Terry Pratchett has died. I’m not a fan, but he always seemed such a nice man. So many people seemed to have loved him, I suppose that makes it a little less sad. It would appear that many thousa...

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It’s Tuesday (actually it’s Thursday now, but I started writing on Tuesday) and I’m working from home today because the dragon is sick and someone had to be here to pick boy up from school. I say...

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I seemed to have stopped writing here. I like writing. I think I am just busy. At my creative writing course this week my poem was reviewed. I was slightly annoyed because I really wanted a criti...

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My wife made me a new kindle cover. It’s utterly cool isn’t it.: I don’t know what to do this weekend. My wife has requested that I take us somewhere on Sunday. It’s going to rain though, and I...

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Le Weekend - I had plans to fix the CD cabinet to the wall, and tack the new power cable for the music player to the skirting board. I didn’t get around to doing either for the second weekend in ...

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I was not well this weekend. I started getting cold symptoms on Friday evening. I felt rough Saturday. I started feeling better on Sunday. I imagine this means I have given it to my family. If I ...

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It’s getting more difficult to write here because I don’t have any time at work anymore. It sort of annoys me, but I suppose it’s what I’m paid for. I have started to write a couple of times, but...

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I had a pleasant nice weekend. It was nudie night at the local Swimming baths, so I did steam room, sauna, few lengths of the swimming pool, and bubbly bath thing. Actually, the most notable thin...

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The reason I haven’t written this week is down to the Charlie Hebdo event. I’ve actually written twice, but somehow been unable to express how I feel, and not published it. I’m not going to try a...

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As promised, here are some pictures from our visit to the Roman baths. It was a good day out, and the boy got really into it. He seems to like history. I should have done these before the lan...

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So, Christmas and New Year are over for another 12 months. I don’t hate Christmas, but I have to say, I’m glad when it’s all over, and I don’t like the cold and wet of winter. The one really posi...

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It’s my last day at work until 2015. I’m auditing databases. On the thrilling scale, it’s right up there with watching grass grow, waiting for soup to go cold, and reading the arts blog in the Gu...

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Le weekend was long, because it included Friday. I got a load of Christmas shopping done, and spent the day with the boy. The dragon had to go into work and construct the nativity play set for th...

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It’s Wednesday. I’m at work, and this is the first time this week I have actually had time to write here. We’re being audited. I had to demonstrate our auditing methods to the audit police yester...

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I’m so busy at work that I don’t have time to write here. I know, I probably shouldn’t be writing my diary at work, but I used to have time, and now I don’t. I don’t feel loved or appreciated at ...

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So, Tesco have announced that they are changing the way they display tabloid newspapers in their stores to avoid corrupting the minds of our impressionable children with the horrifying pictures t...

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I don’t like to write about work here. However, there is major upheaval at the office and I am now doing the work of 3 people. That’s why I don’t have time to write here any more. Our QA manager ...

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So busy at work lately, no time to write here. I don’t think I did a single entry last week. Had a bit of a stampy at my boss about not being invited to meetings where everyone decides that I get...

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I have two stories about religion today, but they are related. Firstly, the Pope has conceded that evolution and the big bang really happened. It’s ok though, we can still believe in god. I’m not...

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This weekend I achieved: Installed a new light in the kitchen. The old one has been growing steadily dimmer over the last few months. It wasn’t the tube, because I changed that, so I replaced the...

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I have decided I don’t like the adjectives “gay” and “straight” to describe sexuality. We use these words to describe opposite sexual preferences, yet the adjectives in themselves aren’t opposite...

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On the way home last night I stopped at the supermarket to pick up bread, mustard, pickles, and butter. The shelves there are now full for Hallowe’en sweets. A girl of about 3 and her mother were...

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This weekend I burnt my eyebrows off whist incinerating rubbish at the allotment. I was slightly paranoid about burning anything that might cause a lot of smoke, since we are right next to a busy...

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Haven’t written all week. Almost started several times, never actually managed it, no time. I took the boy to the boy to the Lego show at the weekend. That was pretty good. They had a huge model ...

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My pirate chest is complete! Have a look at this… I’m quite proud of it. I can’t keep it however. I made it for a child with Downs Syndrome at the school where dragon works. She’s a teaching as...

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