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How do I manage to get things so wrong? Yesterday was hot, really hot, and I had socks and trainers and everything on. Today, I go in to work with linen trousers and sandals and it ends up being the…
Continue reading1. On Wednesday night, the weather looked good for Saturday and Saturday night, but come yesterday morning it was altogether much more of a ‘damp’ picture. That said, they are now saying its going to be nice on Friday again,…
Continue readingThe naturally unflusterable Thomas is getting flustered. Em and I are on holiday next week, and whilst this might well be in a rather nice country cottage with very reasonable rates in the New Forest, I still have to be…
Continue readingFriday 13th came early for me last night. On the way back from band, I had to make my way through Oxford again due to a road closure on A34, and, whilst waiting at some traffic lights I smelt a…
Continue reading1. There was a bizarre sight on the way to work. Whilst stuck nose to tail, inexplicably, on the A34 I had plenty of time to watch as a coach cruised down the opposite carriage-way spewing a plume of acrid…
Continue readingIn no particular order… Attack ground elder with vigour Dig up, and pot up snowdrops, primoses, and (after flowering) bluebells Sort out excess kitchen crockery &c. Sort through understairs cupboard Weed pots on patio Sort through contents of bottom of…
Continue readingThis weekend has been a quiet one; a not unwelcome change after the action of the last. We had a nice walk in Stoke Wood amongst the new season’s leaves and bluebells before retiring to the garden (if mostly under…
Continue readingI’ve been feeling a bit sad and miserable and disjointed all day. Ordinarily I would say it was just the effect of the torrential rain and grim skies. I’ve also been worrying about whether I’m going to get everything done…
Continue readingToday has not been the best of days. It didn’t start off well; grey and damp, and so after getting wet cycling in yesterday got the bus in to work. I also wore my glasses instead of my contact lens,…
Continue readingI’ve been slowly running out of work over the last couple of weeks, so today I was left to tidy up a few ends and write some handover notes and submit my last timesheet before leaving my job in Academic…
Continue readingIt always is the case, these days, that the more Em and I have the best of weekends, and the longer that we are together, then the harder it is the day after. Today has been a struggle. And then…
Continue reading1. Today I’ve been driving Hopcroft Holt’s shiny red Citroen C1 today, which is a ‘boy’s car’ if ever there was one â it’s a bit like a drink’s can really! My car seems to have an oil leak, so…
Continue readingI cycled further into town after work this afternoon, however have failed to buy the necessary refills for my photograph albums. I then went in search of a new waterproof, but wasn’t in a good enough mood to make the…
Continue readingI’ve just met the man – Maurice – who found and returned my notebook. Apparently he found it on the shelves just round the corner (?!!), realised its importance, looked inside it and saw my name and then found out…
Continue readingAll things considered, I slept surprisingly well last night. My journey to work though, was preoccupied by thoughts of where and whether I might find my writing notebook – not to exaggerate, my life – and whether someone might have…
Continue reading1. Last night I didn’t really sleep all that well. My head was churning and my mind cranking with thoughts of Corncrake Way. I want that house, but at the same time I fear that its not big enough. Over…
Continue readingThese pages are five years old. Encompassed here are the journalings of five years of my life, and what a journey it has been. I say it every year, but the experience of writing in these pages is not at…
Continue readingGgrr… yesterday upon leaving the âThank you for visiting Bicesterâ sign, I encountered break lights and queuing traffic and narrowly avoided a 45 minute jam getting to the M40 junction. This was because the lights were out on the roundabout,…
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…
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