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Month: September 2008

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Costa is a coffee shop, not a crèche

28 September 20088 July 2011

Most people have a degree of civilisation about them. Any degree. From a wafer-thin veneer to a big fat juicy chunk of civil behaviour. Today,

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Podcast greens

27 September 2008

The problem that stopped this morning’s podcast episode from being recorded seems to have been a broken microphone-to-mixer deck cable. Tests with replacement equipment indicates

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Podcast blues

27 September 200827 September 2008

Two hours of unsuccessful fiddling about (which is a highly technical term) have yielded absolutely no fruit. There’s a problem with the config. I have

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Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit

26 September 20083 May 2012

The two oriental-looking-but-eastern-european-speaking girls sitting behind me haven’t stopped yammering since we got on the coach in Victoria. We’re now in Buckinghamshire. I’ve got no

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Cyclists!

25 September 2008

So  I’m on the coach, right? And we’re in Kensington, right? And we’re stopped at the lights, right? Well, this cyclist courier guy pulls up

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The new routine

23 September 20083 May 2012

Yesterday – Monday – might not be typical; being the first full working day based at the new house, the temptation was to try and

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This is weird

22 September 20083 May 2012

I’m doing about 60mph down the Oxford to London motorway (known to the locals as the M40). There’s a guy on my left picking his

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This post comes magically from the past

21 September 20083 May 2012

It is 20.56 Sunday evening in the Jones household. And we are in bed. I am pitter-pattering on the laptop keys and Soph is reading

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So it’s goodbye from me, and it’s goodbye from her

21 September 200830 March 2022

The house move has been completed. We sit, semi-surrounded by boxes (there are more upstairs), in our new Oxfordshire home. Home to us now is

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The manflu rages on

19 September 2008

My cold near terminal case of bubonic plague flu continues its attempt to strike me down as I soldier on gamely at the office. You know

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Cleaning out my (virtual) closet

18 September 200818 September 2008

I hate throwing anything away. Let’s face it, one day that left-handed screwdriver might be precisely what I’m looking for! I’m as reluctant to throw

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I have no life. Sob! :)

17 September 200830 March 2022

Jane Austen wrote: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a

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Echoes of a life gone by

16 September 200816 September 2008

There’s a lot of stuff appearing on the web about Richard Wright but so few articles fully appreciate the magic ingredient that he and the

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OMG, Richard Wright’s dead!

15 September 200816 September 2008

This evening I’m shocked at the news that founder member of and keyboardist with The Pink Floyd (to use the full and proper name), Richard

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Sitemeter is crap, Bloglines isn’t working

14 September 200825 February 2015

** Updated ** As Citronella has so kindly pointed out in her comment to this post, I’m thrilled (and I’m sad enough to actually mean

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Sunday: 08.31

14 September 200830 March 2022

We Are Up. Yeah I know. How random is this? We are up in a ‘both been awake since 07.15, both had breakfast, Soph’s showered

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Move along, nothing to see here (sea hear?)

12 September 200815 September 2008

I’m fine this morning thanks. Yep indeedlydoodly. Rocktastically good. Excellent. Brilliant. Really very well indeed. Oh yes. Sorry about last night’s post though. And the

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Today’s lesson comes from the book of Alk-oHol

12 September 200812 September 2008

And so it came to pass that He had drunk much, for with His colleagues didst He go out in to the wilderness being Victoria

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Lazy web designers

12 September 2008

When is a door not a door? When it is ajar. When is a website not a website? When it only meets part of its

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After a night out…

11 September 200812 September 2008

So… You. Yes you. The girl so far up your own arse that if you shoved a toothbrush up your bum you could clean your

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I am mortified

10 September 200810 September 2008

A text rolls in. ‘Billy Crystal has your bottom. Yours is nicer tho, obv’ I mean… What? If he’s got my bottom how can mine

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Elevating the conversation

10 September 200810 September 2008

So is it just me that can’t help giggling when s/he gets in the lift, presses the ground floor button and the recorded, sultry-voiced female

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More alone than usual

9 September 200831 March 2022

Somehow it feels that I’m more alone than usual this week. Yes, I’m in London but my house back home is empty. Sophie is also

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Unpredictably predictive

9 September 200831 March 2022

As I sit here cutting CDs for distribution to various music industry personages (a necessary but boring task), my mind wanders to the vagaries of

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Today people pissed me off

9 September 20083 May 2012

I had a meeting first thing in Southwark. It’s an easy ‘get to’ from the house in Brixton – about 25 minutes door to door.

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Loving CD Baby

8 September 2008

Taking a leaf out of my own book I’ve just bought ‘Slowburn‘ by the brilliant Brighton-based band (ah, such alliteration!) Anemo. Shying away from the

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Changing my jodhpurs now

7 September 200830 March 2022

Vin and I went out for a hack around the Worcestershire countryside this afternoon. We got to the top of Horton Hill when something appeared

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Awake (and not wanting to be)

7 September 2008

Our slut next-door neighbour staggered home about an hour ago and, for some bizarre reason that could only make sense to her alcohol-consumed brain, began

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The cost of information security

6 September 20087 September 2008

In the last nine months in this country, the personal data of: * 25,000,000 child benefit recipients has been lost * 7,685 drivers in Northern

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Sinner!

6 September 20087 September 2008

Yeah [hangs head in shame], I have done wrong. It was very early Friday morning in the kitchen in the house in South West London.

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Keeping an eye out for Noah

6 September 200831 March 2022

You know. I’m not religious or anything but that rain out there? I know it’s the tail end of an Atlantic storm but if it

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The thing about writing and music is

4 September 20085 September 2008

If it was as easy as all that, we’d all be best-sellers, right? In the writing world: I’ve read excellent published work But I’ve also

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Sorry love, Eventin’s off

3 September 20083 September 2008

So Vinnie won’t get to stretch his legs over Cleobury Mortimer this Sunday after all. Unsurprisingly it’s been cancelled due to the ground being waterlogged.

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Crumbs

2 September 20083 September 2008

Monday evening, meal eaten, second of many cups of tea appropriately disposed of, first two of six sound files edited, chapter of Slam read, notes

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