Category: Journal
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2022: The List
At the end of the year, I like to go back through photos, notebooks, diaries and the like to remember the highlights of the past 12 months – both big and small. In some cases these moments are intensely personal, sometimes they are big, bold moments that I shared with many others, either directly or…
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Football, mountains and souks: A postcard from Morocco
Lots of people were thinking about Morocco last night as the Atlas Lions continued – and ended – their heroic run in the World Cup with a semi-final defeat to France. While lots of people probably became honorary Morocco fans for the night, S and I watched the match in the restaurant of a hotel…
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Back on stage in The Wedding Singer
It’s been a busy summer. I’m writing this from my sofa in the wake of an excellent week back on stage for the first time in years. I have written before about the fact that amdram has been a big part of my life since I was quite young. In fact it’s how I first…
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Coffee shop musings
It has been far too long since I have written on here. The last blog I posted was about Megxit and in the modern world of 24-hour rolling news nobody cares about that anymore except Piers Morgan. It has been a busy old start to this month; I’ve moved house, turned 33 and finally updated…
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A postcard from Madeira
Apologies if you are currently hiding away from the snow and rain which seem to have decided to make a mid-Spring return to the UK; earlier this week, S and I took advantage of the early onset Easter Holidays and skipped away for a few days in Madeira. We should, originally, have finally been heading…
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Putting the fun back into blogging
I’m sick of typing. I’m bored of sitting in front of a screen watching words and sentences form, all while wondering whether anyone will bother to read them and, if they do, whether they will like them. Or even care. This sort of goes with the territory of my day-to-day job. I am a writer.…
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Greg James and Tim Minchin are right – be ‘pro’ things
Radio 1 DJ Greg James wrote a lovely piece for the i last week exalting the power and joy of being a nerd. In it, he wrote how people should embrace the things that bring them joy, rather than what people think is cool. For him, this means embracing his love of gardening, Airband radio…
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Escape to the Costwolds
The half term holiday heralds a few days off for S and an opportunity for us to escape from home, emails and work to a little bolthole where we can hide for a few days. In the past week or so we have, very excitedly, booked a few international getaways; but for this week we…
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Millennial Gent Year 4 – Introducing Short Man Style
I can’t quite believe it’s been four years since I started this blog. In the last few weeks I’ve been pretty quiet as work and the rest of life got in the way, but if ever there was a time to get my stuff in order again then it is now. And I have some…
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Don’t be a d*ck online
“It’s a shame we even have to discuss.” That was Will Smith’s reflection in his song If You Can’t Dance (Slide) from his 2006 album Lost & Found. What followed was advice for dancing which still rings true today: There’s no lip biting or pelvic thrusts, I mean, you think that move will put the…
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