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I guess we got it lucky today. Some places, it seems, had lots and lots of rain. For us, it was just grey. Grey, grey, and very blustery. We cleaned the house, I worked on some more of my novel,…
Continue readingAfter an early morning visit to a Tesco somewhere in Bracknell, and a return home for a leisurely breakfast, Emma and I headed out for a long, leisurely walk in Burnham Beeches. With gorgeous blue skies, it was the perfect…
Continue readingSnow! Itâs hypnotic, snow in headlights as Emma and I drove in convoy through High Wycombe after dinner and budget discussions with her parents. Kind of an awkward experience, it does sound like we can have enough for the non-fussy…
Continue readingFriday 11 January 2008 10:55 “If you try and sell your house, estate agents will tell you to get rid of the books, they are viewed as tired and middle aged,” says Prof Sutherland. I canât imagine ever living in…
Continue reading1. Got home this evening and switched on the laptop. Hard disc error: no bootable drives. I try repeatedly, on and off, on and off. Eventually leave it and sort out Bella and Arthurâs feeding for the weekend with Kathy…
Continue readingAnd about time too! Yes, I know it seems like an unpopular thing to say, but the truth is, if we are stand any chance of stopping the planet rise in temperature by the crucial 2 degrees (as it is,…
Continue readingOkay, so I blew it. Romantic gesture, yes, but practicality no. Despite measuring the finger I got the ring completely and utterly the wrong size. Emma took it in to the jewellers in Amersham today to see if can be…
Continue reading1. Upon waking this morning, all I could hear was the howling gale. A day for the bus, me thinks. 2. Actually managed to be reasonably productive today at work. And I got some work done on the novel. 3….
Continue readingMore talk about weddings. Is this what its going to be like for the next 18 months? A nice sunny day today, and we went for a walk in Stowe Landscape Gardens. I didnât realise but Iâve never been there…
Continue readingToday I managed to not fall into the age-old Saturday trap of not getting up, though later than a weekday, early enough to not waste the morning. By the time I did get up, I found that the postie had…
Continue readingOh, bugger, that was quick. I attended an interview this morning for a Web Designer/Developer position at a company in Summertown, Oxford. I thought it looked quite interesting â working on creating some kind social networking site for businesses wanting…
Continue readingHmph! After my recent posting activity, I have to say that I’m surprised by the number of comments posted to these pages?! Currently I’m gearing up for another interview tomorrow morning. This time a web design job in the Summertown…
Continue reading1. The holiday’s over. It’s back to work in the morgue. And to add frustration to boredom, the damn computer took the best part of an hour to sort itself out so that I could actually open more than one…
Continue readingOn the 31 December 2006 Emma made a pact with her sister Helen and Helen’s boyfriend Nicholas, that the next year, they would be there; they would go up to London too to see the fireworks. In the end Helen…
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