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1. When and why did you take up your instrument? What keeps you playing? Aged 9, when I started Middle School, I started to learn to play the trumpet. I got to a resonable standard, played in the school orchestra…
Continue readingHad a phone call this evening to say that band was cancelled – which saves me driving in late night, (potentially) icy roads. So what to do? I curled myself up at the end of the sofa, and watched, enraptured…
Continue readingSo Greg Dyke has resigned as Director General of the BBC. So the BBC was wrong, and the Government were right over the intelligence evidence of WMD and the reasons to go war? What next then? Government appoints a new…
Continue readingI got up as usual shortly after six, ventured out at seven and explored my route out of the estate, and then upon discovering the lovely ice rink before me retreated back inside my house, fired up the computer, logged…
Continue reading…recorded for posterity, it does, upon occasion snow in Bicester. Awe! Very pretty…
Continue reading16:15 hours: Nothing to report, bunch of folk leave to go home (I’m working a bit late because of 2 hour lunch to celebrate Kim’s birthday) 16:40 hours: Global company email: “For those travelling further a field tonight we have…
Continue readingI’m not a line manager, and I’m not a team leader (officially), however I am a *senior* person in the Professional Division team, as such I have additional responsibilities (mainly KPI reporting and the like). It now seems that I…
Continue readingAs I stepped out the leisure centre tonight, I stepped out be greeted by the this much hyped snow! Well, okay so I could literally count the number of snowflakes on the fingers of one hand, but hey, it was…
Continue readingcurrently writing: chapter two (of six) current page: 100 current wordcount: 26,852
Continue readingOkay, I accept that if I go to the pub I have to face the prospect of reeking of cigarette fumes afterwards. What I don’t accept, is that this should happen to me after going to a copy shop to…
Continue reading…but you’ll have to wait a wee while longer… *grins*
Continue readingMy life has been rated: See what your rating is!
Continue readingCooked this recipe from stelpa – thank you – ’twas delicious… Ingredients 750g lamb fillets, sliced thinly 3 cloves garlic, crushed 60ml light soy sauce 80ml sweet sherry 1 tbs cornflour 2 tbs vegetable oil 1 tbs brown sugar 1…
Continue readingCooked this recipe from stelpa – thank you – ’twas delicious… Ingredients 750g lamb fillets, sliced thinly 3 cloves garlic, crushed 60ml light soy sauce 80ml sweet sherry 1 tbs cornflour 2 tbs vegetable oil 1 tbs brown sugar 1…
Continue reading1. You write novels, screenplays and TV drama, I think. Which do you prefer, and why? Now that’s a tough question. I’ve always made up stories, and tried to put them down on paper, and I guess they were short…
Continue readingI’m going to have to make a visit to London, I think, sometime before the end of the month. At ( Somerset House ) there is an exhibition of Quentin Blake’s illustrations…
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