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JFDI

31 January 201031 January 2010

I should be JFDI but, I don’t know, something’s missing. Some small piece of motivational ‘oomph’ seems to have fallen out of my psyche and

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On music, horses, relationships and avoiding cliches

31 January 20103 January 2020

There’s a lovely track by American singer/songwriter James Casto called ‘Perfect Day’, in which James, an excellent lyricist, describes his charming ‘perfect day’ which, inevitably,

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Awww, gwon

30 January 2010

Our humble little entertainment show (Arf!) is floating around the ether, just waiting to be plugged in to your ears. The music comes from the

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Early doors

28 January 201028 January 2010

On Saturday I’ll be loading Tom in to the lorry and we’ll be trundling out of the yard at about 06.30, and heading westwards into

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Crash

27 January 201028 January 2010

Crash 1: This morning my 18-month old Dell laptop refused to get out of bed and boot up. Again. You may remember it went tits

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A new kind of ‘unwell’?

26 January 2010

I’ve been in London all day I have had three meetings with clients I had one particular meeting with two people who were downright friggin’

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Stiff

25 January 2010

I wish I could throw off the last of the bloody virus that’s been hanging on to me for over a week now. Every joint

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On riding a dressage test

23 January 2010

After some questions from a bunch of folk about how the dressage test section of the Eventers Challenge went, I thought I’d put the full,

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Stream of unconscious

23 January 201024 January 2010

1. I ache still, every joint. I might resort to painkillers today. 2. We did the studio thing again last night and recorded the 100th

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On why cyclists must be compelled to take a test

21 January 20108 July 2011

I have a full motorbike licence. In order to get my motorbike licence I had to take a rigorous theory test and a practical –

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A bit of local colour, anyone?

20 January 201020 January 2010

So according to Sir David Omand, Tony Blair’s former security co-ordinator, the fabricated claim that Iraq could launch tactical weapons within 45-minutes was (and I

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On learning a dressage test

20 January 201023 January 2010

BE 90, Test 92 A: Enter at working trot. Proceed down the centre line without halting. Track right yep, we can do that B: Circle

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Must. Learn. Dressage. Test

20 January 201021 January 2010

The day after tomorrow Tom and I are supposed to be competing at Allenshill in the Eventer Challenge 90cm class. That’s British Eventing’s dressage test

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So farewell then Bill McLaren

19 January 201019 January 2010

The voice of my youth, Saturday afternoon television commentator on Rugby internationals, Bill McLaren has passed away at the age of 86. And now, sitting

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It never reins but it snores

18 January 201018 January 2010

random title! And despite or perhaps because of my general bleughness in the health area right now, a magazine feature I pitched for absolutely bloody

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Gah!

18 January 201018 January 2010

Not looking for sympathy but I am unwell. So an unwell winge is called for. It’s nothing serious, just (probably) a 24 hour thing but

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It’s Sunday evening, ho hum

17 January 201017 January 2010

Not exactly larkish behaviour, but I was up with the 7am alarm and out of the house by 8. The roads to the stables were

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Stone me, it’s *cold* out there!

16 January 201016 January 2010

It’s Saturday. The snow has melted away in the overnight rain and the temperature is 2c. So why does it feel absolutely bitter, colder than

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On a quiet people day

15 January 201029 April 2012

This is an experiment. The title says it all really but just to make really sure, this is a brief description of the *real* people

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Blaming everyone

13 January 201014 January 2010

discuss… With the fresh snow that came in from the west last night, new horrors were experienced on the roads today. In these parts the

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Discoveries made on talking to my fellow motorists

11 January 201029 April 2012

Some of them appear to be terminally stupid and twuntish Feeling more mellow than normal I decided to try and help a couple of my

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Nice fanny!

11 January 201011 January 2010

Oscar Wilde said of the divisions between the UK and the US, that we were ‘one nation divided by a common tongue’. Setting aside the

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I had kinky bondage sex with Margaret Thatcher?

10 January 201011 January 2010

It feels as thought it’s been a very selfish weekend. I’ve spent some of it dozing on the couch, some of it watching junk television

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2010 competition schedule (v2)

8 January 201020 February 2010

So it’s changed already. The first change is I had to drop going to Allenshill this Sunday because the weather is against us; I can’t

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Odd thoughts (2)

8 January 2010

I’m sure wherever my dad is; he’s looking down on us. He’s not dead, just very condescending.

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Tom is *very* bored

7 January 201029 April 2012

So, just before Christmas, Tom’s new ultra-high-fenced turnout (hereafter known as Colditz Turnout) was finished. Yay! And he loved it. He loved it so much

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Odd thoughts (1)

7 January 2010

I was watching the London Marathon a few years ago and saw one runner dressed as a chicken and another runner dressed as an egg.

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I’ll have a pee please Bob (and other random sayings)

6 January 201025 September 2012

Some very random words are flashing through my sleepy head but I can’t go to bed because its not even 8.45 yet! A gazillion years

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Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

5 January 20105 January 2010

I had hoped to publish a very short video clip, via youtube, of the drive up the track from the stables, past the outdoor arena,

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Plant life

4 January 20103 January 2010

This weekend we finally got around to clearing the decks, settling down on the couch and watching the latest BBC adaptation of The Day Of

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Redundant technology

3 January 20103 January 2010

I love my car. It’s not a flash sports car, it’s a 2-litre turbo diesel, five-door mid-range, executive-type thing. I like the drive; I can

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Technological breakthrough

3 January 2010

Now that’s a very clever piece of technology!

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I can see the sea!

2 January 2010

In a moment of decision-making lunacy we went to the seaside yesterday. While we were there we ate, we looked at the views, we were

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Shameless podcast plug (well, it is the end of year episode)

1 January 201030 March 2022

I don’t normally do the ‘big linkage thing’ in this way, but the end of year retrospective is more than a little bit special –

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