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Sunday evening weekend review

30 March 200825 February 2015

How was your weekend? You’ve either had an active or an inactive weekend? Or maybe you’ve had a weekend where bouts of activity were mixed

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This Reality – Podcast No 5

29 March 200816 April 2008

Episode 5 (31 minutes running time). This week we have a lovely contribution from an overseas correspondent who tells us of a number of things

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Insomnia

29 March 200830 March 2008

Not the brilliant track by Faithless, no. The disturbed (broken? fractured? unattainable?) sleep pattern. And not me – not me last night anyway. Last night

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And another thing…

28 March 2008

Chocolate. Why, when I am unwell with, ahem, a stomach complaint, am I filled with a craving for chocolate (which, contrary to anything Soph might

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And there’s another thing…

28 March 2008

Why is it that when one invariably wakes from slumber in the bed of sickness, the first thing one wants to do is ring the

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And there’s a thing…

28 March 2008

Colonic irrigation. WTF? Someone sticks a hosepipe up your bum and for that you pay them money? There’s people out there would pay money to

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Schooling…

28 March 2008

After all the show jumping we’ve done lately, I chose to give Vin a hefty dose of flatwork schooling on Wednesday evening. How brilliant it

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It’s now time to punish the parents

27 March 2008

14-year-old Brendan Harris attacked, kicked and killed Sophie Lancaster in a park in Lancashire; he was drunk at the time. He was joined in his

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‘Ello? Yeah, it’s me. I’m on the ‘plane

26 March 2008

The  news that Ofcom has approved the use of mobile telephones on aeroplanes fills me with dread. In the UK we laugh when comedians (cf

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In regione caecorum rex est luscus

25 March 200825 March 2008

When Desiderius Erasmus (1466 – 1536) wrote “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is King” [Adagia (III, IV, 96)] his simple statement

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Tiscali, they’re really really shit

25 March 200824 April 2012

*** Original article written on 25th March 2008  *** *** Updated 9th May 2008 (see below) *** *** Updated 21st May 2008 (see below) ***

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We Rock!

24 March 200830 March 2022

The Soph and I undertook a flyingly fast visit to Chav HQ (aka Worcester) this evening, for an Italian meal at, der, Little Venice. We

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Not just semantics

24 March 20083 May 2012

There are expressions which, when used in different – perhaps less ‘mainstream’ walks of life – that take on different shades of understanding. It is

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Really scary stuff

24 March 200824 March 2008

I don’t know whether I’m in conspiracy theory mode or if I’m just pointing out a very peculiar product but… There’s a toothbrush on the

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OU and podcast query

24 March 200824 March 2008

A public answer to a private email from a non-broadband internet user… Should the podcast go in to detailed discussion of OU-related activities, it would

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This Reality – Podcast No 4

22 March 200816 April 2008

Danger – bad words lurk herein! The ‘Explicit’ tag has finally been switched on. Episode 4 (30 minutes running time): I’m feeling creative! And are

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Basking in the glory of others

21 March 200821 March 2008

It’s 21.21 (ah, such numerical synchronicity!) Good Friday evening, there’s pants on the television but that’s OK because earlier we went to the cinema and

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Today I have learned that

20 March 200821 March 2008

This blog’s number one search term for the month of February (with a staggering average of 200 googles per day) is the word ‘dogging’ I

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So farewell then…

19 March 2008

Arthur C Clarke. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Expedition to Earth, Rendezvous with Rama, Childhood’s End, The Fountains of Paradise, Of Time and Stars, Imperial Earth,

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A hairy situation

18 March 200818 March 2008

Standing in the queue for a coffee this morning, I couldn’t help noticing that the blonde woman in front of me wore her hair in

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Got the Abbey Habit

18 March 200827 May 2008

It used to be be an advertising slogan that the Abbey National Building Society used. I remember it well. The accompanying logo was a cartoon

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This Reality – Podcast No 3

16 March 200816 April 2008

Episode 3 – the new format on the mixing desk is revamped. All we have to do now is lose the nerves! But the gap-decreasing

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Show jumping (or what it nearly looked like)

16 March 200825 February 2015

Saturday, Lincomb, Mandy Kent show jumping clinic. The good news was that for a bunch of reasons I didn’t know about, there were only two

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Show jumping tomorrow, maybe

14 March 200814 March 2008

Yesterday morning Vin got shod. This evening I fetched him in. Sadly he had only three shoes on and was hopping lame on the hoof

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Make the punishment fit the crime

13 March 200814 March 2008

Today at Canock Magistrates court 19-year-old Mathew Corfield of Higgs Road, Wednesbury was sentenced to five month’s custody in a Young Offender’s Institution. Some months

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Today I shall mostly be

13 March 2008

Productive and scruffy. In that order. I am working at home (yes I know it’s now 18.06, and I’m blogging but I’m just having a

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Vin the superstar

13 March 200813 March 2008

Yesterday evening Vin and I had a lesson with Jo. It’s been six weeks since her last visit, she gave me a load of homework

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They did it in full public view!

13 March 2008

Up on top of the Cotswolds, beside the A417 dual carriageway, there is a top secret (British) military establishment. Not a place with lots of

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Meaning what, precisely?

13 March 2008

So Adele’s off out chasing pavements, eh? And people are walking around, digging her song, singing the words, eh? I wonder if they still would

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In need of a fix

11 March 2008

This evening I have a mild case of the shakes. A minor anxiety attack. I left my iPod on my desk and can’t get back

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15 hours or 15 minutes

9 March 20089 March 2008

It’s 22.55 and that’s how long I’ve been asleep – 15 hours or 15 minutes. We came to bed, the lovely S and I, to

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Competing again

9 March 20089 March 2008

Fresh from our success with Matt Ryan last Sunday, on a fit of upness I entered a couple of dressage tests at Allenshill. I love

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CSI Worcestershire!

9 March 20089 March 2008

CSI being an acronym for Common Sense Initiative, not something else you may have heard of… They’re out to get me. The drongos. The thick,

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This Reality – Podcast No 2

8 March 200816 April 2008

Adam Curry’s intro (I really should get his ‘OK’) to ‘crowd gasp’ Incoming email traffic to the podcast Welsh Humour Podcast stats Podcast Admin: Feel

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Food for thought

6 March 20083 May 2012

The office in-house caterer has gone ‘healthy’. I’ve moaned about the lack of chips and baked beans on the daily menu to so many of

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Admin post

5 March 20085 March 2008

My Podcast Alley feed! {pca-589d62ab647117ff0d75fcdb548518a2}

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My arm aches

5 March 2008

That’s not a winge, simply a statement that at this moment in time my right arm aches to buggery and back. Ah, I’m glad you

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Podcasting experiment

5 March 2008

This evening, whilst trying to answer one of those ‘I wonder if it’ll work if…’ questions, I’m going to try and record some audio for

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Covered in glory, not mud

3 March 20083 March 2008

So. Yesterday’s cross country training with Matt Ryan (I thought I’d tell you about it before you asked – especially given the slight note of

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Road (train) trip – the second Monday

3 March 20083 March 2008

Yes, the medication is obviously working and I’ve been allowed out of the office again. Today I went off to play with some nice grown-ups

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Open University A103 TMA02

3 March 20083 March 2008

To the person from Wakefield with the Telewest account (I know your IP address too!) who just used google.co.uk and the search term ‘answers to

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Rewarding stuff

3 March 2008

On the train this morning I read the outcomes from the annual NME (New Musical Express) awards and there are some interesting outcomes to agree/disagree

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Izit a bird? Izit a plane?

2 March 200828 December 2014

No, it’s LiteraryMeme! Gargoyle (crazy name, crazy guy*) has set me a meme and, just as I was starting to get a little, well, jaded

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This Reality – Podcast No 1

1 March 20082 March 2008

Well, This Reality podcast kicks off with a look at just how the words ‘Amateur Production’ are being redefined – downwards! But this is only

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Topically speaking…

1 March 20081 March 2008

as it’s Dewi Sant (Saint David’s Day to those poor unfortunates who don’t speak God’s Own Tongue) here are a bunch of interesting sheep-related facts

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