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  • Newcastled

    I have some compassion for myself here. I got back from Newcastle and the presentation there reasonably late. That was a little underwhelming / disappointing as we proved to be more of a side-show than a main even piece. In hindsight we could have gone through to the main room to show ourselves and entice…

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  • Missed

    Ok, I missed a day. Yesterday I went into the office, worked through into the early afternoon and then took the bus over to Terminal Five a flight up to Newcastle. Then G and I almost pulled an L and Gareth, chatting right the way up to when the gate for our flight was closing.…

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  • Filler posts

    It is actually the 31 May 2026 and I have today created the idea of the filler day. This is a day where when I have the thoughts and energy, time and space I will sit down and, starting with the first empty entry write at least five hundred words for each of the available…

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  • Brushing

    I am 43 years old. On the whole, things are good. I have a good job, great friends, I don’t owe any money, although I will shortly owe a lot of money. I am reliably informed that secured debt isn’t quite the same as unsecured debt. But it still feels like a whole lot of…

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  • How does it feel?

    What does it feel like to write five hundred words? This is the question which crossed my mind this morning as I sat, slightly lost, at the computer in Mike’s London flat. I have written plenty of things before, but there are some longer things I would like to write. Perhaps a novel or two,…

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