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Today I worked from home, and had, as was usual on these occasions quite a productive time of it: ~ the main reason for working from home was so that I could head out for a lunchtime date with the…
Continue readingThe recently broadcast Newsround Special: My Autism and Me about living with aspergers prompted some further thoughts about my own life particularly in respect to where I would be without the internet. It’s a brilliant video and one that I…
Continue readingMarch 2011: Working as a Web Designer for the School of Social Sciences and Law, Oxford Brookes University; married to Emma for almost two years, living in my second (bought) house in Bicester. We have a loving menagerie of 7…
Continue readingWhilst browsing my archives I realised that I have been keeping a journal, of some description for some twenty years – or be it only in these ePages for some seven years. I still have my first ‘diary’, a five-year…
Continue reading~ I am so, so lucky that my job enables me, and the bosses permit me, to work from home as I had to stay home today for the plumber to fix our heating situation. We were actually pretty toasty…
Continue readingI don’t think that I ever imagined that I would have anything in common with David Cameron. It seems I do. During the summer of 2006, I car-shared to and from work with then-neighbour Caroline. The conversations we had ranged…
Continue readingIt being an unexpected Monday off for Emma, we were just getting ready to go and visit Sue and Tilly for the day, when I got a call from the agency. OUP had been on the phone to them, desperate…
Continue readingToday was the day for my annual pilgrimage into Oxford to pay visitations to the line of beauocracy for my pound of flesh (or 60-something pounds a week). In an effort to make the effort of getting into Oxford a…
Continue readingIn the morning I got stuck into painting some more of the garage – by degrees I will get there – before a bit more Wimbledon over lunch, and through the afternoon. It’s awkward though, before the wedding I coped…
Continue readingLast night wasn’t a good night for me. I woke up at 2 o’clock with aches and pains and feeling a bit sick. I did manage to doze a little bit in the morning, but when I got up for…
Continue readingFor the third time in two years, my first day of unemployment has had the sting taken out of it by gorgeously beautiful and warm weather. That said I started the day positively, with an interview &#z2013; or be it…
Continue readingItâs been a funny olâ start to my new unemployed status. The last time this happened, Tuesday 1 May 2007, was similarly bright, sunny, warm and distinctly spring-like, and it has been the same today. It takes the sting out…
Continue reading~ What a glorious day! We were going to deep‐clean and de‐hair the house after getting back from our early morning Tesco trip, but when we got home it was too nice for all of that. Em got stuck into…
Continue readingShit, shit, buggity-buggery-buggeration, shit, shit! So the projects that were going to be kicking off soon in the department that I could have been involved have now been pushed back ’til later in the year, if they happen at all,…
Continue readingI’ve cancelled my printing press order. I was sick in the stomach and full of butterflies last night. It’s an expensive purchase, no more expensive than I had expected, and budgeted for out of Grandpa’s inheritance, so I had no…
Continue readingThe Bad: I am cold and shivery and have a voice like a dying frog. 🙁 The Good: In 8 months time, it shall be my wedding day. Actually, in exactly 8 months I shall be married. 🙂
Continue readingI am home alone. I saw Emma (very briefly) between work and going out for she has gone to try on wedding dresses with her Mum and sister. Itâs the first time since Em moved with me almost two months…
Continue readingAfter a four-day weekend, today has been very much a struggle. No, it *is* very much of a struggle. I want to be at home with Emma, or rather, I want to be out somewhere, with Emma and enjoying a…
Continue reading~ According to the Chinese the eighth day of the eighth month of the eighth year is supposed to represent prosperity and wealth. ~ On the eighth day of the eighth month and the eighth year I finish revising Part…
Continue reading1. I had a touch of The GrumpsTM this morning. I’m really not sure why. I think its because I knew that I would be missing Emma. It was her day off today, and although she’d already worked more hours…
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