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I've been thinking a bit about getting older.  One of the things they never tell you about growing up is that at no point in your life...

I've had some post from the MS Trust . It's a little pamphlet suggesting ways that you can raise money to support what is a ver...

My friend Tony is something of a photography buff, and he took many fantastic photos documenting our time in Scarborough (his wife is in the...

Do you remember that website from way back in the day where a guy called Eric attempted to convey any requested emotion ? Pity, horror, love...

A good friend of mine put up a post on Facebook today: “ I just saw a quote on a photo of a beautiful plus-sized girl calling her “a real-s...

Apparently, I look like Steve Jobs. On Friday, I went out for a drink with a couple of colleagues. It was a pleasant affair, made all ...

I was out on Friday with some of my colleagues. Towards the end of the evening, one of those colleagues – someone that I’ve worked reasonab...

Some years ago, I installed a widget that enabled me to track visitors to these humble pages.  It's not that I'm obsessively interes...

Ten years ago today, on a whim, I started a weblog .  I was twenty-nine years old. Ten years represents 25% of my entire life, and some th...

Given that the tenth anniversary of this blog is in less than a month's time, it's probably a little bit late to start wondering wha...

At the beginning of March 2014, I will have been blogging for ten years.  In all that time, and in spite of the millions and millions of wor...

I saw Daniel Kitson performing on Sunday.  He was excellent.  I love the fact that he's a stand up who: a) Sat down for the whole d...

There was an advert on the TV a little while ago - for Dove, I think. I’ll let the Guardian describe the premise : “ The ad follo...

You know that feeling when you hear something that gives you a real jolt and you suddenly realise how old you are getting? Usually this ...

A helpful random person sent me an email out of the blue yesterday, pointing out that a link on a post of mine from my old site, written in ...

As we were driving to work this morning, an innocent conversation about the mist rolling off the river and the number of trees now entirely ...

At last! A geek / nerd / dweeb /dork venn diagram. This is something that has been puzzling me for some time. Over the years, people have u...

Unnoticed by everyone - including me - this blog turned 5 last week. That first, tentative entry was made on Tuesday 2nd March 2004 , and fa...

Not two months after writing that last little cry from the heart , life changed a little bit for the 19 year-old me. Well, it didn't rea...

Whilst sorting through some boxes of my stuff that were turfed out of the roof in my parents' house move, I found a couple of bits of wr...