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Let's drink at my place so I can walk home.
Hello hello! What's happening, everyone? I'm not too bad - almost at the end of a ten-day stint at work (working over the weekend blows, jsyk) and I'm a wee bit tired with it. Needless to say, I'm...
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Analyse, Strategise, Succeed. A.S.S. I'm going to crush this problem with my...
Hello hello! It's a chilly Tuesday here and I have had a tiring day, but I am looking out of our living room window at a pretty pink sky and Nic is cooking something that smells delicious. So that's...
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Boos? Really, how gauche.
Hello my little chickens, how is everyone? I'm sitting here, drinking gin, with half an eye on the first episode of that terrible mini-series The Kennedys. You know, with Katie Holmes as Jackie...
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Excuse me, Meryl Streep could play Batman and be the right choice. She is...
Hello! Or, no, I'm going to say guten abend, because Nic and I are just back from a few days in Germany. We were there as Nic had been invited to give a paper at a conference in Darmstadt, and we...
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I had bread. I had cheese. I had an iron. What was I supposed to do?
Hello! It's been a little while, hasn't it? To tell the truth, I have been feeling somewhat melancholy recently. Nothing major, maybe it's just the ever-decreasing daylight hours or the fact that some...
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You're so nice to me, and I was so mean about your zookeeper dream.
Hello folks! I'm coming to you feeling a lot brighter and cheerier than in my last post. I'm not entirely sure why, but I am grateful. Maybe my brain has adjusted to the shift to autumn and the clock...
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It doesn’t matter how long you’ve lived in New York. It’s still fun to look...
Hello everyone! What's happening? Everything is grand with me, if a little bit on the busy side. It's okay, though. I kind of like it being busy on these dark autumn days, mainly because it stops me...
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Oh, what’s this in my shoe? Red carpet insole. Everywhere I go, I’m walking...
Hello everyone! Well, it has been a while, hasn't it? It has been a particularly busy few weeks at work and socially. It felt like I had only been back from Glasgow a nanosecond before Nic and I were...
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I sold a Makita cordless drill in the local paper; I got it back as a...
Hello hello! I hope that everyone is having a good week. Mine is definitely showing an improvement on last week - which, in fairness, it really needed to! Last week wasn't finished with me when I last...
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They have horse riding as well. I remember I did it last year. Well it wasn't...
Hello everyone! Happy December! I'm full of germs this week and feeling a bit sorry for myself: it's been a somewhat challenging week at work. It's always like that at this time of the year and, in...
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You can forget about Icey T and Scoopy Scoopy Dog Dog.
Hello everyone! I've managed to rid myself of the lurgy that was plaguing me at the end of last week: after a stressful week at work, maybe it was 90% feeling exhausted and angry. Whatever it was, I...
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Scully, if I'm carrying Marilyn Monroe's purse, do you assume that I've slept...
Evening everyone! Hello! What is the craic?! It's ninety here. I had a brilliant weekend, I have three work days left of 2015 and I hit an important deadline today. All of these things feel pretty...
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I mean, one does not pick dahlias and chrysanthemums in an alpine meadow.
Hello! Happy Christmas, everyone! I hope that you've all been having a festive and restful holiday period. I was very busy in the lead-up to Christmas at work and with social commitments and, as soon...
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I brought the normal scrabble and the travel scrabble, Ted. The travel...
Evening all! I hope that these in-between days are treating you well. I've been having a lovely time. Nic and I had a little potter around the shops on Boxing Day before going to have lunch and a...
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Up in Dublin they’ve things called buses. Big yokes. With wheels. Big long...
Evening pups! What's happening? Right now I feel like I'm living my best life: Nic and I are watching an episode of The Fugitive, I have a glass of champagne on the go and I'm full of roasted chickpea...
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I do admire Wonka; he is a true capitalist. His factory has zero government...
Evening all! It's been a windy, rainy, chilly Wednesday and I haven't left the house today at all. It's not something I'd like to do every day, but every so often it's good to not have to engage with...
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Ugh, I hate January. It's dark and freezing and everyone's wearing bulky...
Hey everyone! Happy New Year! I did mean to post again yesterday but...eh, blankets, the sofa, pizza-making and champagne intervened. Ah well! I hope that you all celebrated the evening in the way that...
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You can try to change New York, but it's like Jay-Z says: Concrete bunghole...
Hey you guys! How's the form? My first week back to work has been grand, if a little depressing that it's so cold and dark and, you know, January-ish. My body responded petulantly to being back at work...
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Well, it's the first time I have used that particular chart actually. I got...
Hello everyone! I hope that this blue Monday hasn't been too blue for everyone. Mine has mainly been a tired Monday - I had a very intense week at work last week where I had to stay in London for a few...
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I hope my legacy is a Sesame Street-type TV show that promotes illiteracy in...
Hello! Here we all are now, all the lads. I hope you've all been having a good weekend - I have been having a very relaxing one. Last week was incredibly full, work-wise. After the job interview on...
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