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Saturday 21 April 2012
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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Friday 20 April 2012
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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Friday 20 April 2012
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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Thursday 19 April 2012
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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Wednesday 18 April 2012
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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Friday 13 April 2012
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Friday 13 April 2012
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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Thursday 12 April 2012
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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Wednesday 11 April 2012
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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Wednesday 11 April 2012
Tue, 13:50: Mongolia stelarta http://t.co/9Q0auGUh Tue, 16:19: Is there room for a Twelfth Cake? #ShakespeareCakes Tue, 16:21: Just posted a photo http://t.co/wKzy5oQ6 Tue, 16:24: Just posted a photo http://t.co/blPhaHlz Tue, 16:27: Just posted a photo http://t.co/HAxCSNyh Tue, 16:33: To bourbon,…
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Tuesday 10 April 2012
Between the sunshine and showers (has anyone else come across the Met Office’s new rainfall radar chart yet?) I have taken myself off for a bicycle ride. Not far, I headed up through the estate, across the roundabout and down…
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Tuesday 10 April 2012
Mon, 12:08: RT @WstonesOxfordSt: We couldn’t watch the boat race so we put some Cambridge dictionaries and Oxford University Press books in a sink a … Mon, 13:22: is writing about the pleasures of rereading: an in-exhaustive list http://t.co/oPkQ9qzN #reading…
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Monday 9 April 2012
Back in the day when I was still single and writing The End Of All Worlds the weather as exhibited this Easter Monday was the weather to inspire me. A bank holiday meant a bonus day to devote to writing,…
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Monday 9 April 2012
Sun, 20:49: My thoughts on @creationtheatre‘s and the @_factory‘s stunning new production of #OdysseyOxford. Catch it if you can! http://t.co/JzbdF2Ex Mon, 11:32: Stop the Latchmore Brook stream “restoration” project http://t.co/7g2CxCEJ via @AddThis Mon, 11:41: My w/e papers have just got…
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Sunday 8 April 2012
Sun, 00:03: On page 96 of 292 of The Girl With Glass Feet, by Ali Shaw http://t.co/L97wcGEe
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Sunday 8 April 2012
Inspired by this article in today’s Observer on the pleasures of rereading, here are a few of my forever friends of the book world, and why. The list isn’t exhaustive, just the one’s that come to mind. Swallows & Amazons…
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Saturday 7 April 2012
Fri, 15:16: On page 80 of 292 of The Girl With Glass Feet, by Ali Shaw http://t.co/EpPetvNO Fri, 15:25: RT @creationtheatre: Looking for some epic storytelling this Friday eve? Book online for The Odyssey (http://t.co/QhKxc4BA) or try your … Fri,…
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Friday 6 April 2012
Thu, 17:37: On page 62 of 292 of The Girl With Glass Feet, by Ali Shaw http://t.co/3Mx8CAx3 Thu, 18:24: Just posted a photo http://t.co/gkQpEjXZ Thu, 18:34: Just posted a photo http://t.co/u8ER3fjQ Thu, 20:24: Stop the Latchmore Brook “restoration” project. If…
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Thursday 5 April 2012
Wed, 15:41: : and finally, #newsround is 40 http://t.co/XRpnDUZ2 Wed, 18:34: “Perhaps you think too hard about what words you’re going to use and how to make your mouth say them.” @Ali_Shaw could have had me in mind! Thu, 10:38:…
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Wednesday 4 April 2012
Wed, 11:02: If @twitter had been invented in the 80s… http://t.co/3F7ZABrF
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