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After the festive, Christmassy joy to which we concluded yesterday, today was the antithesis of festive. It’s emej‘s weekend of working the day shift and so it was my job to venture out into town to pick up the Turkey,…
Continue readingFor the first day of my Christmas holidays I had big plans. I feel a bit like I have failed. I’ve basically finished as all my shopping but one thing I do like doing is going into Oxford, close to…
Continue reading~ Further to last night’s late night developments, and the need to take Scooter to the vets for his eye operation, and the need to take Emma to the doctor for a checkup after last night, it seems sensible to…
Continue reading~ After the dangerously slippy roads of yesterday (with the dusting of snow we had), this morning was cold, damn cold. Apparently last night it got to -7ºC. Bbrrr… So today I went to work the shorter but slower way…
Continue readingIt’s been 14 years since I first met my friends Iain and Linzi Murray. It was on Lundy Island, and the scene of my second (of many) National Trust working holidays. That was the holiday that I met Kate –…
Continue readingIt’s a weird thing, but of late we seem to be finding ourselves with longer evenings. That is to say, we get to a point where everything is done, and meals are eaten and thus, I think that its later…
Continue readingTo celebrate one month in print, I have been interviewed by Kevin Domenic for the Searching For Heroes website. So if you want to find out a bit more about me, my life, my influences of course my debut novel,…
Continue readingIt’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…
Continue readingMany 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….
Continue readingAfter such a creatively inspiring and joyful weekend, today was, somewhat of a let down. A very, very Monday. Taking the sensible option of avoiding possibly icy roads and leaving early to head down the main roads to Oxford, it…
Continue reading1. How has marriage changed you? I’m not sure that marriage has changed me. Meeting Emma definitely has. I am so much more confident about myself than I used to be and can convey myself and my thoughts with way…
Continue readingIt’s been an odd kind of day. It’s been a very cold, dull, grey day, the kind of day that dulls the sound of chickens squawking. Emma did the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch, although there weren’t a hell of a…
Continue readingGive me the child. Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child that you have stolen. For my will is as strong as yours,…
Continue readingIt was just a bit too stressful this morning at work. I was busy making some web updates, refreshed the page, and noticed that the news feed wasn’t working. I went to logon to the server remotely, but couldn’t so…
Continue readingI had thought that it would be a bloomin’ miracle if I didn’t get the lurgy that Emma has been suffering from, and yesterday it hit me. I had been feeling a bit cold earlier in the day, and then…
Continue readingSo, after the washout that, for Emma, was Christmas Day we tried again and headed over to her parents for post-Christmas lunch of cheese and biscuits and sausage rolls. Emma made up for lost time and fed and cuddled her…
Continue reading~ Today was a quieter day, although not without its busy moments. Chiefly the pre-Christmas shop… no regular Ocado delivery in Christmas week, and seeing as as we had vouchers to spend we headed out to Thame and to Waitrose…
Continue reading~ a quiet, slow start to today after Lucy’s Christmas carol party last night. Okay, so carols are not that hard to play, but I think this weekend has taught me that what I lack most of all when it…
Continue readingToday has been a productive if busy one. With emej working the second of her crazy 12½ hour weekend shifts, I was in charge of cleaning out the bunnies and chickens today, and then cleaning the house and processing the…
Continue reading~ Tonight was our last rehearsal of term, and the last before our Christmas concert, and the short season of carrolling events throughout the month. It went well, and I think it might be a good one. It’s in a…
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