Although this year I have made a very firm attempt not to make any hard and fast resolutions or plans, one thing I am keen to do this year is read more books. My normally reasonable book consumption dipped quit alarmingly last year as I went from a company with an hour long lunch break [...]
Now that the holiday season is all but over and I have reclaimed my house back from the parental units that have been squatting in it for the last week I find myself sitting not in front of my fantastic new telly (cheers Mum and Dad) watching my extended Lord of the Rings DVD box [...]
For the most part I’ve been taking December as a ‘month off the Internet’, save for the occasional pop round the door of Twitter or Facebook to say hello, or tell crap jokes which then get ignored or scorned upon. It’s been refreshing, and I’m not really sure how much I’ve really missed it, but [...]
Word Count: 4802 Well, today is day two of NaNoWriMo and so far everything is running according to plan. I have hit my target two days in a row, and in fact I am already just shy of a day ahead of target, having taken every opportunity available to me to write. Except for now, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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