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So its finally come; the leap day of the leap year. I don’t usually listen too carefully to Thought for the Day in the mornings (usually, a sensible point in the first half is ruined by the religious bit in…
Continue readingSo Marks & Spencer are to start charging for plastic carrier bags. This is all very good and I applaud their decision. Why can’t they be giving away the cotton/canvass/jupe bags instead of the plastic bags for life in the…
Continue readingWhere were you on the morning of Wednesday 27 February 2008? I’d like to be able to say that I was being moved by quaking crust of the planet beneath me. Sadly, as with the ‘Hurricane’ of 1987, I was…
Continue reading1. Another day, another interview. Just four days since I was there this afternoon I was back down to Milton Park, Abingdon Didcot for another interview. Went well, possibly not as well as the last Thursday’s one. We shall see….
Continue readingThe house in Glen Close is nice. Very nice. I arrived back in Stratton Audley half an hour or so before my appointment so I was able to wander up to see exactly what kind of business goes on at…
Continue reading1. Last night I didn’t really sleep all that well. My head was churning and my mind cranking with thoughts of Corncrake Way. I want that house, but at the same time I fear that its not big enough. Over…
Continue readingI always knew I was going to like this house. Situated in the New Langford Village area of Bicester, which I already know from last weekend as being wonderfully small and villagey – almost continental – in feel. A modern…
Continue readingEmma’s sister, Helen, had persuaded us to go to the Thame Wedding Fair, in part because she had to man the John Lewis stand. Both Emma and I were very nervous about it, and we had no idea what to…
Continue readingEmma was taking delivery of her ‘new’ bedroom furniture with the aid of her dad and her mum’s car this morning, which left me with a good opportunity to start sorting stuff. And I had a reasonably productive morning at…
Continue readingAs I begin my sixth year of writing here, it seems that I should start on this day with something a bit different. Today I sent and received my first valentine card. 🙂 I left work promptly to get home…
Continue readingThese pages are five years old. Encompassed here are the journalings of five years of my life, and what a journey it has been. I say it every year, but the experience of writing in these pages is not at…
Continue readingAnd so at last we come to the day; the day of the parents meeting. If it wasn’t for ‘The Summit’ being scheduled for 1245 hours, I would have called it ‘Parents Evening’ but my pedantry forbids it. Both Emma…
Continue readingWhen you go house hunting you have to start anywhere. To get an idea of what’s out there and in our budget, Emma and I took our checklist and hit the property trail. Within an hour we had seen possibly…
Continue readingI’ve been writing in present tense for so long now, I now find, as make the first tentative steps to Louis Tumnal’s story I’m finding that the natural choice for me is still present tense. This is awkward as I…
Continue reading09:13:50 @janerawson We got proper snow! You’ll probably hate me for saying this, but I decided to leave the travelling and work from home today…
Continue reading09:13:50 @janerawson We got proper snow! You’ll probably hate me for saying this, but I decided to leave the travelling and work from home today…
Continue readingTuesday. For our American friends, today is Super Tuesday and 19 states are voting for in this years presidential primaries. Go Obama! Meanwhile here in the UK we will be stirring up the batter and squeezing lemons over sugar ……
Continue reading(The Curious Tale of) Mr Tumnal is working its way into my mind. My problem with the story is that it is important to me that Louis Tumnal is a sympathetic and likeable character, but someone who cheats on his…
Continue readingOne of the main sources for pub names seems to be things related to the professions of the time, and so with that in mind Emma and I got talking about what pub names might come into the world from…
Continue readingAt the last minute, I had a call from The Holt with news of my car. Up until that moment I was on my way back on the bus to collect my car, with the problem still unidentified. But no,…
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