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Finishing
Z was helping me at the house again today. He made a comment which gave me pause. Which was, “you know, it’s great to be doing all this general preparation work, but we also need to pick a task and drive it towards completion”. He said it really gently but it is a thought other…
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Patio
I don’t often take time off, so today has been doubly special. First, because I have taken the day off and second, because I’ve spent the day working on my house and I don’t think I’ve ever really done that before aside from at the weekend and sometimes in the evening. When I went to…
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Caught
I just got off the phone with my eldest, N. Sometimes it takes longer than I would like it to for me to learn important things. One of my sponsors in the programme, S asks me to leave a daily voice note. I do this almost every day, one or two minutes, talk about what’s…
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Brawling
I think playing the eight games of One Page Rules have helped my Old World. The thing about One Page Rules is what you destroy of your opponent’s army is just not relevant. There’s no such thing as kill points, or at least in the missions that we played in the eight games last weekend.…
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Desk Four
“Larry, you’re here on desk four.” Larry nodded and, carrying his backpack in front of him a little like a shield for his nervousness, picked his way between the desks towards the one Mrs Polgen was pointing at. It was an unremarkable desk in the second row, on the right-hand side of the room by…
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Bonfire Night
Remember, remember the fifth of November, gunpowder, treason and plot. Britain has been and remains today under a sort of cultural assault. It reminds me a little bit of one of the ways that you can win Civilization 5, which is a cultural victory. The idea is to amass cultural value or cultural meaning in…