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Month: April 2009

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Slightly disconnected

30 April 2009

Yes I’m tired. Yes we trogged in to Oxford and went to the ‘battle of the bands’ competition called The Next Big Thing at the O2. Yes it

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Random thinking

28 April 200929 April 2012

This is frustrating and infuriating in equal measures and I really don’t know why it has happened. While I was having a cup of tea

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A brief Spanish respite

26 April 2009

I’m sitting on the couch in the house in Oxfordshire looking at photographs taken and listening to audio recorded while we were in Spain last

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Sunday in Oxfordshire

26 April 200926 April 2009

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Es mi niña!

26 April 200926 April 2009

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Weekending

26 April 20093 May 2012

Yesterday – Saturday – was fun. I spent most of the day judging at a Hunter Trial at Ascott-under-Wychwood. This meant sitting in a car

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Dun travellin’

24 April 200924 April 2009

(for now, at least) We are back in the land of the very peculiar people. I say this because I am still getting many phone

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More travels

19 April 200919 April 2009

So we’re back from Liverpool. Soph (bless her), has unpacked, shoved a load of washing on and is upstairs splashing around in the shower. I

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Scouseland

19 April 200919 April 2009

We are in Liverpool. Our very nice hotel is on the waterfront next to the Liver Building. Last night, as we walked around the docks,

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Room service

18 April 200918 April 2009

Hi there, said Soph. Can I order two hot chocolates for room 302 please? We really know the meaning of the rock’n’roll lifestyle, two top

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Levelling off

17 April 200925 February 2015

This Reality podcast episode 60 is up and finally – finally – we’ve hit on the correct method of getting the levels and balances right

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Guilty!

17 April 200917 April 2009

In a few weeks time I will be officiating at a horse trials. The difficulty with being a judge at any horse trial is that

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Speaking of shallowness

16 April 2009

He said, breaking the Merseybeat theme that seemed to have somehow grown around the last few posts… Have I told you about my time down

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The Air That I Breathe

16 April 200916 April 2009

After my Hillsborough post I received an email from a previously anonymous reader in Germany. Hello previously anonymous reader in Germany. In her email the

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Ferry ‘cross the Mersey

15 April 200910 February 2021

This weekend I’m heading north from this corner of Oxfordshire to Liverpool. Woo! The plan is that I’m going to meet LizSara and Miss Smidge

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It was twenty years ago today…

15 April 200931 March 2022

Let’s get one thing clear from the start. I detest football. It is, in my eyes, a game played by a professional class, the top

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Oi, Morrissey!

14 April 2009

You’d better rewrite the lyrics to ‘America is not The World’. Especially the bit that says: In America, The land of the free, they said,

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Day 4 of the holiday

13 April 200913 April 2009

I was awake far too early, so I quietly slipped downstairs where I internetted whilst listening to inLight (because they really are as good as

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Day 3 of the holiday

12 April 200912 April 2009

I teetered out of bed, fetched mugs of tea and bowls of cereal and we sat in the morning debris of our duvet-set, eating and

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Day 2 of the holiday

11 April 200911 April 2009

Continuing the shift from what passes for our normal Bank Holiday behaviour… For some reason we woke up early this morning, 07.00 early. When we’d

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Two kids, a pair of Mics, random chat and good music

10 April 200911 April 2009

Yep, This Reality Podcast episode 59 has been released on the world. It’s like musical goodness, but with conversational badness on the side. Well, with

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Day 1 of the holiday

10 April 2009

In a massive swerve from the (our) traditional unfocussed bumbling about the place, today we have been busy. We cleared out the spare bedroom, dismantled

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Yay it’s Saturday. I mean Friday!

10 April 200910 April 2009

The Friday Bank Holiday that is known as Good Friday is upon us. I’m not celebrating it for the holy day that it’s become latterly.

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Oh. Is it lunchtime already?

8 April 20098 April 2009

That would account for the feeling of ravenous hunger then. So. Sainsbury’s then. The Sainsbury that is dangerously close to my primary lair in Westminster

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Sorry I’m late, I needed a poo

6 April 20096 April 2009

A long commute can be very beneficial. I get free WiFi, a 13 amp socket, free breakfast, free copy of The Independent and sufficient space

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Podcast poll #8

5 April 200910 April 2009

(these go out on twitter, the results will be discussed in This Reality Podcast, episode 59 which will be recorded/released this weekend) Podcast poll #8:

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A day in the life of…

4 April 2009

A librarian? This Reality Podcast episode 58 has been released. In a massive experiment this episode is co-hosted by a listener who shares just one

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Hello Towson University

2 April 20092 April 2009

If you are doing some research would you like access to my old blog? If not… Have a nice day. 🙂

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BBC Switch? It’s all a load of shit

1 April 200929 April 2012

BBC Switch is the brand for BBC content aimed at UK teenagers. The brand launched on Saturday 20 October 2007 on BBC Two. It includes

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