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1. The drive into work this morning was gorgeous; clear and bright but with a slight misty haziness over the fields and a pinky-red tinge to the whispy slither-like clouds. 2. In 10 days journal, his journal will be four…
Continue readingTime was when we had a strong cohort of people in our department who would all go to lunch at the same time and fill the big long table in the centre of the atrium (the big long table that…
Continue reading1. As long as I breath from the diaphram, and blow the notes confidently, my piccolo playing seems to be coming on quite well, and not too screaching and ear-piercing. That said it’s still loud and high, and really I…
Continue reading1. Another cold, sunny, winter weekend day today. Such a glorious day, a day to go out and be in. 2. Headed into Oxford briefly today to give my discount card a last outing at the bookshop. Dad had a…
Continue reading1. Another cold, sunny, winter weekend day today. Such a glorious day, a day to go out and be in. 2. Headed into Oxford briefly today to give my discount card a last outing at the bookshop. Dad had a…
Continue readingI got back to my desk after lunch today to discover one missed call. The HR person at OUP had called and wanted to speak to me. I called back, and they would like to interview me for the job…
Continue reading1. When I woke this morning, I genuinely didn’t have a clue what was to face to me today. Drawing back the curtains, I was faced with a blanket of whiteness. Snow? I know that they were kind of saying,…
Continue reading1. When I woke this morning, I genuinely didn’t have a clue what was to face to me today. Drawing back the curtains, I was faced with a blanket of whiteness. Snow? I know that they were kind of saying,…
Continue readingApparently today is the most depressing day of the year. It’s true that my bank balance is looking a bit dipleeted, but not really any more so than usual at this time in a month. I had a good weekend,…
Continue readingBlanked out last night. I was in the middle of posting yesterday’s entry when I came over a bit woozy, almost sick-like. I went to the kitchen sink but I needed to sit down, put my head between my knees…
Continue reading1. Yes, dear readers Britain has once again been ravaged by storms. And yes it has been very bad in places (did anyone see the footage of that aeroplane trying to take off from Birmingham airport?), but like all of…
Continue readingA while back tinyjo pointed me in the directon of the new 10 Downing Street online petitions system, and this one. Well they’ve made a decision and it seems that I will now be legally entitled to buy a CD…
Continue reading1. You can’t call it training, but it is exercise. Tonight, I swam 48 lengths in 50 minutes. Not bad, but if I am to ‘beat the hour’ with my 60 lengths, I need to do better. If you haven’t…
Continue readingNot entirely sure what to say about today. It was not your typical ‘Monday’ by any means, but I’m not sure what it was. It wasn’t quite this, and it wasn’t quite right. Some of the pieces weren’t there, but…
Continue readingToday has largely been about words for me, and I like words… 1. Critted (is that a word – probably not but it sounds better than Critiqued) three chapters of someone’s book on CritiqueCircle. I wonder how much critting you…
Continue reading1. Got up early (yes, woken by John Humphries and the Today programme) this Saturday morning. 9am I had an appointment for an overdue haircut. One of these days, I might be brave enough to change the style, but for…
Continue reading1. Got up early (yes, woken by John Humphries and the Today programme) this Saturday morning. 9am I had an appointment for an overdue haircut. One of these days, I might be brave enough to change the style, but for…
Continue reading1. Got woken at 3 o’clock this morning by wind – no blustery gales – and I’m sure rain. However later on, the lake outside my house had gone down a bit, so I don’t know. At the Green Road…
Continue reading1. Bella lost her collar again last night. Only a week after the last one, so of course that’s another £10 for that and a name tag… 2. Went swimming after work today, and doing 36 lengths in a not…
Continue readingAnyone living in the UK will of course be aware that, following the days of fog pre-Christmas, we have been treated to days of rain post-Christmas. It has, to put it simply, been very wet. So wet in fact that…
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