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Hmph! After my recent posting activity, I have to say that I’m surprised by the number of comments posted to these pages?! Currently I’m gearing up for another interview tomorrow morning. This time a web design job in the Summertown…
Continue reading1. The holiday’s over. It’s back to work in the morgue. And to add frustration to boredom, the damn computer took the best part of an hour to sort itself out so that I could actually open more than one…
Continue reading1. It feels a little empty waking up to Christmas Eve with Emma gone back home. The weather reflects my mood, engaging frost and cold and magicness is replaced by a hibernating weather of cold greyness – real Dark Comes…
Continue reading1. We had a really heavy frost last night, and it was absolutely beautiful across the fields and in the hedgerows on the way to work. It was damn cold though, and by the time I got to Oxford we…
Continue readingI weighed myself this morning. I appear to have lost another ½ stone – that’s one full stone in about 7 months! 🙂
Continue readingToday was mostly taken up with taking a (beastly wet) drive down to Fareham with Emma and her sister for Sunday lunch with Grandma and Aunty Gill who was over from the States (yes, Emma too has relatives in the…
Continue readingLast night, whilst vacumning round the house, I reversed my bedroom in order to have a ‘bedside table’ and lamp on both sides of it. In addition to this I may be able to find room for one or two…
Continue readingEugh, it’s been a yucky week. Dull work, dull weather, and not even any magpie inducing shiny things or lights at the end of the tunnel yet as to when my second interview is! Ggrrr… I’m trying to remain optimistic….
Continue reading1. Red sky in the morning, Shepherd’s warning – that was the gorgeously beautiful sky that greeted me upon pulling back the curtains this morning. Okay, I confess it, had I actually had got up when I should have got…
Continue readingAaghh! What a horrid day! Slept well, but itâs taken me an hour to get to only as far as the Park&Ride what with inexplicable traffic queues and accidents! Iâm on the bus now, but its slow and oh great,…
Continue readingWeird: Passing through reception this morning I could here some strange singing, and it seemed to be coming from the security desk. Two of the guys (one being the stern man with the impressive mustache who is cross with you…
Continue readingOn Friday night, I accidentally sent Emma a text message to her landline instead of her mobile, so she got it some hours later via the robotic woman at the other end of the phone. Its funny, but obviously the…
Continue readingI’m actually leaving at 1pm this afternoon for my weekend, thanks to getting into work at 7.30 this morning! No, that’s not a sudden surge of enthusiasm and keenness for the job, but rather ‘I might as well seeings as…
Continue readingThere appears to be a spate of gun crime in our town’s and cities at the moment. Just how much of it is an actual increase, and how much is the media reporting it more in light of recent events….
Continue readingIt’s been a funny old summer really. I’m probably one of the most optimistic people you can find, but even I’m finding the grey days and rain a bit wearsome by now. That’s not to say of course that when…
Continue readingI woke reasonably early yesterday to pack for my long weekend in Norfolk and to finish reading my book in preparation for reading *that* book. Then after a quick bite to eat, I headed out onto the roads and the…
Continue readingThis is indeed true, what I say. However what is, perhaps more curiously interesting is that despite the (pretty much universal) perception that we have had a near two months of constant rain, I’m not sure if that’s been the…
Continue reading1. I got the bus in Oxford today, so I made sure I was up bang on time. There’s something very nice – very continental – about walking across St Giles, and down Little Clarendon Street in the early morning…
Continue reading1. I had a half day at work today because of another interview, and the sun was shining for it. Strictly speaking it was two interviews actually, or at least one interview for two jobs – that of Website Designer…
Continue reading1. Another successful lunchtime of editing today. I rewrote one scene, and then skim read the rest of the (tenth) chapter and, concentrating less on the &Thorn;ursar people, itâs already a much tighter chapter, and I think, needing less work…
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