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Life

Morning, sunshine

I’m so excited! Two days off work (pant-wettingly exciting in itself), PLUS the sun is shining and it’s properly warm… like summer! I may even get to use the air-conditioning feature in the car too – superb!…

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Life

Bottom’s up!

At what age do you think bragging about how much you drank the night before stops sounding like youthful indulgence and starts to sound like alcoholic dependence? I happen to work with people who like to go on and…

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Life

The Chalets

This is jingly-jangly exotic guitar electronica which sounds just brilliant. Listen for yourself… The current single is what got me hooked, ‘Theme From Chalets’. To quote from their web site: [it] begins with a twitching guitar, a shark in…

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Life

Work experience

Today is hot. 25C/77F. OK, so it’s not Sahara hot, but getting to work it was hot enough to go out without a duffle coat and a team of huskies. Through the bars on the window it looks like…

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Life

Fade to grey

Today I went through a near-death experience involving many, many, many, many Powerpoint presentations. My dreams tonight will be a series of badly-worded bullet lists and gaudy transition effects.…

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Life

May daze

The biggest passenger ship in the whole wide world turned up in Southampton over the weekend. It was only when it parked next to familiar landmarks which I previously considered to be quite sizable that I realised what a…

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Digital Life Photography

The lion sleeps tonight

Over easter, the Muldowney’s went on Safari! There was no travelling the African savannah in a 4×4 for us , we only needed to go as far as the wilds of Wiltshire (Longleat to be precise). All the same,…

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Life

One for the iPod

I’ve just heard this on the radio and need to write it down somewhere or I’ll forget what it’s called… The Fratellis – Creeping Up The Back Stairs Such a cool tune! I love listening to 6Music – there’s…

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Life

Green day

I currenly have a problem with snot (sorry for using the green word), that has the same consistency and adhesive power as super-glue. This is proving very inconvenient for things like breathing and talking; I now have an attractive…