As my seven year anniversary of spewing my mind onto the internet (or blogging) approaches (October 8th, fact-fans) I’ve been re-reading some of my really early posts from my old Livejournal. Very surreal experience, a bit like revisiting the old diary you used to keep when an angst-and-spot-ridden adolescent. One thing that struck me was [...]
For some reason I seem to be falling into a weekly pattern with blog posts, once a Monday, then plan a load more and then fail to do them, Monday rolls around again and I get another one done. Of course then what happens in this particular case is that I then leave said blog [...]
For such a total newshound as myself who spends hours every day trawling political blogs and listening to Radio 4 podcasts, the last few weeks this pastime of mine has started to wear me down and left me with a slight sense of not-giving-a-fuck that is somewhat disquieting. Perhaps this is a slight moment of [...]
The other night I watched the Shane meadows film This Is England for the first time, having somehow missed it the umpteen other times it has been on. I thought it was very good, although I did wonder if it was entirely successful in repudiating the rather reprehensible far-right politics at the core of some [...]
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Bear with me on this one, sorting some stuff out in my head, and that can only lead to self-indulgence. If you don’t like procrastination you may want to look away now. Or go and read something else. Or make some coffee. Maybe have a cake? Anyway. It’s amazing the kinds of things you cook [...]
One of the advantages of the kind of unsociable hours that Ellen works is that come the weekend it is perfectly possible for her to work both Saturday and Sunday and with a judicious use of time management still be able to have a full weekend of family fun and activities. Given the doom-mongering nature [...]
It turns out that one huge benefit of making your post a private one is that you get to see exactly who is reading it, because they have to contact you direct and ask you for a password. Which is nice. Thankfully quite a few of you did, and provided me with just the ego-massage [...]
I don’t think it will be a huge shock to anyone who is still reading this, but the whole Year of Health has run entirely out of steam, and the experiment is over. The time has come to admit defeat. Sad but true. Over the weekend Ellen and I finally admitted the truth to each [...]
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