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The next couple of months is looking exciting, here’s what I am up to: Stories from the Borders of Sleep This is my personal pet project that is delightfully growing a life of its own. For a number of years I have been keeping a dream diary and also a record of some of the [...]
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I have been writing this blog for nine months now, since it was born on the 5th May 2010. An average of 1000 visitors have passed through and hopefully found something worth reading. Reviewing the most popular posts of the last year has given me a few surprises. Here are the top five in order [...]
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I am terrifically grateful that my growing years were under the eye of as loving and fair a father as anyone could hope for. The qualities I most remember in my own father were his sense of fair play and equitability, his steady grasp on old fashioned concepts like “honour” and “loyalty” and even “duty”, [...]
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After my A levels, I spent seven months working in a pub to save for a gap year. At the time I had set my heart on being a writer and the patrons of the bar were such delightful personalities I must have got a lifetime’s worth of plots and characters just listening to the [...]
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See that column on the bottom right? That’s my Blogroll. I wrote this as a static page but was so blown away as I pondered the qualities of my various blogging friends that I thought I’d make it a post, too. These are all people I know offline and I would like to introduce them [...]
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