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June 2004

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Friends, really?

Take your friends list, write it out substituting real first names for usernames, where known. Let’s see if I know everyone’s names…

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[random post from my mind]

Stream of thought? I’ve thunk… *grins* And now, seeings as the sun is shining, the temperature is rising, I’ve just had an email from one of my Estonian friends, I think I shall BEESify some EPH whilst plugged in to…

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Music [in colour]

Entente Cordiale! That’s me just behind Hilary, the principle flute receiving our raptuous applause for our damn good playing of Elgar’s Enigma Variations on Saturday…

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Expecto Patronos

I could wait no longer. Tonight I upped and went down to the Odeon Aylesbury to feast in over two hours of Harry Potter magic. It was great and,

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Variations on a theme

And the theme was the Enigma Variations – the rousing finale to our latest concert, Entente Cordiale – as the programme a celebration of English and French music in honour of the aniversary of signing the now famous agreement. It…

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The awakening of the artist in me…

Skipped downstairs this morning on a disappointingly grey day to find, in the mail cage an intriguing slither of an envelope from New York with the carefully marked instructions alongside my address: open carefully with scissors or an x-acto. I…

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Full Circle

I’m sitting here, in my lounge typing words into my journal, reflecting on the passing of the last 6 years. It seems like yesterday, that in the summer of 1999 I discovered the show on Sunday mornings in Channel 4’s…

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Who needs pasta?

Half way through making my dinner tonight of tagilatelli carbonara I discovered that I didn’t have any pasta. So I made it with rice instead. It was nice. You should definitely try it sometime.

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I am free!!!!!!!!

Thank you OpenHosting, and thank you BulkRegister! Finally I am free of Advent (bloody) Internet – possibly the worst webhost and domain registrant in the world – ever!! But now I am free. All the websites I control, here, here,…

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words words words

Finally, after an age too long, the words section of my website has been upgraded to the new style, and xhtml compliant asp pages. Hopefully it will be even easier to navigate… Hrmm, just need to do something more stylistic…

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Art and Asperger’s

“This goes to show that people who get by without a diagnosis have found a niche where they can use their skills to make a contribution. This need not be dramatic – perhaps they are a very methodical worker, who…

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themed moods

Well, my collection of mood themes is complete – faces from tv and film is the theme – and it seems there’s an awful lot of Katie Holms and Keira Knightley there, but what the heck, there’s also some faces…

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