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April 2012

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Scripting your life

It’s five years to the day since I left Blackwell, replaced by a machine. At the time, it was the end of an era, but there were already seeds of change. As I put it in my ‘friends only’ post…

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My tweets

Sun, 12:07: A day for letting it all hang out… http://t.co/5n66pvsU Sun, 12:23: Just posted a photo http://t.co/UFPkPWoU Sun, 14:31: Little ball of fluff… http://t.co/i6MfzKg1 Sun, 20:46: has, this weekend, changed my first nappy and fed a baby til’ she…

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Sat, 13:31: has just bought @MHarrison13 new book from the Indy bookstore in Bicester. Lovely cover – apparently scary contents… #newbooks Sat, 19:58: 17 chapters down, 14 to go… 🙂 #progress #editing #TheEndOfAllWorlds Sat, 20:03: Marked as to-read: Unrest by…

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Fri, 17:59: Just posted a photo http://t.co/8u8vJgRC Fri, 22:47: On page 218 of 292 of The Girl With Glass Feet, by Ali Shaw http://t.co/l6aA68rH

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My tweets

Thu, 15:44: RT @bbcgoodnews: Remember the Swansea uni toilet sign from last week’s show?Well @Ellie_Nash83 just sent us this from a Swansea office.. …

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Wed, 13:21: RT @IceFarm: Iceland’s Ring Road – The Ultimate Road Trip http://t.co/vTClfCHf #Iceland #travel Wed, 22:23: Have you downloaded Ch1 of ‘The End Of All Worlds’? You can share your comments there too… http://t.co/uYZEqo0g #FREE #kindle #epub #pdf

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Tue, 18:03: Chap 1 of ‘The End Of All Worlds’ available to download FREE as #kindle #epub #pdf http://t.co/uBYYDF8V Wed, 08:43: @106jackfm My bear us called Cagu. his name stands for the Campaign for the Abolition of Growing Up. 🙂

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Mon, 20:44: In honour of World Book Night, read chapter one, FREE, of my debut novel, The End Of All Worlds. Out May 2012… http://t.co/uBYYDF8V #WBN Mon, 22:56: @EMTippetts Please RT In honour of #WBL chapter one, of my debut…

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Sun, 16:47: Always disappointing when you hear the thunder roll in, toy think the next one is going to be big, and then it just peters out… #thunder Sun, 17:13: RT @michele_paule: On @Oxford_Labour Super Sunday #labourdoorstep we call on…

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Sat, 17:21: five years ago today I met my wonderful and gorgeous Emma in a Pizza Express. A return tonight seems appropr http://t.co/FR4u0qBj Sat, 19:37: Yum! Happy Anniversary Emma! xxx http://t.co/RB1PW6di Sat, 20:54: went to this fantastic exhibition http://t.co/BCXrNZ9j on…

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Five Years To The Day

On Saturday 21 April 2007 I met Emma fro the first time. I was one week from redundancy and being replaced by a machine at Blackwells (now Wiley) and we had been emailing, on a daily basis. Five years ago…

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Fri, 20:38: wonders whether you would vote for someone called Colin Cockshaw? Fri, 20:44: just had the nicest ever @ocado delivery driver ever! 🙂

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Thu, 23:05: It’s been an odd day today, but its all worked out in the end… Fri, 10:57: According to the @OxfordWords classical character quiz, I am Orpheus! Which classical character are you? http://t.co/AWBamkOy Fri, 10:59: According to the @OxfordWords…

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The Power of a Sunny Spring Morning

Many people find that after a long, stressful day at work, the evening commute can be just the antidote that one needs to calm you down ready to enjoy the evening. It kind of works in reverse too, I’ve found….

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Wed, 10:54: RT @bicestervets: We are starting to focus more on backyard chickens which are becoming increasingly popular. Here’s a link to a… htt … Wed, 10:55: RT @bicestervets We are starting to focus more on backyard chickens which are…

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The Open Web

It’s good to see the father of the internet Tim Berners-Lee urging the government to stop the snooping bill. I really hope they listen. What I don’t understand is why the government think that it’s going to make the world…

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Thu, 14:53: is trying to persuade myself that I don’t need chocolate… Thu, 16:02: RT @IceFarm: A new way to travel around #Iceland: Booty shakin’! http://t.co/Gscl2InC Thu, 16:03: RT @IceFarm: Icelandic band Of Monsters and Men have sold 55,000 copies…

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Wed, 13:43: The illustrated eBook… http://t.co/0Jrvv6Az Wed, 13:56: 10 Misconceptions About Writing Books For Children http://t.co/0AOWGYMw \via @MHarrison13 @writersdigest Wed, 15:11: This time round, Madness – It Must be love is the penultimate song on the #weddingplaylist. What will be…

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Facilitation of the creative muse

There’s a stereotypical image of the struggling writer, drinking and writing in his garret flat. I’ve never been that stereotype, however I have found that on occasion a drink would seem to aid the process of creativity. On my first…

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