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MIKA: Life In Cartoon Motion

For the last fortnight, my life has been consumed by this album. I can’t get it out of my head, so I’m going to review it in depth, as an attempt at therapy. Perhaps by recording my thoughts, my brain will not be so reluctant to keep a tight grip on them, and I may […]

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Fiction Peril Poetry

Anecdotal Warning About Hitch-hikers

*The sun had long since set, I was driving over a bridge, She suddenly came into view, her thumb up for a lift. I brought the car to a sudden halt, from behind I heard a beep, And just one minute later she was in the passenger seat.* *I’d offered her a lift, as previously […]

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Displeasure

As you’ll see, we’ve made quite a few changes

I received a letter from my bank yesterday. They send me lots of letters, often containing leaflets with changes to my terms and conditions. These leaflets are too dull to read, which I am sure is intentional. By now, I wouldn’t be surprised if my bank have a legal claim to my left testicle under […]

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Gaming

A Weekend Indoors

*Looking for a guide or walkthrough for Tomb Raider Legend? Try [here][walkthrough] for text-based or here for video-based* [walkthrough]: http://www.tombraiderchronicles.com/tr7/walkthrough/index.html This weekend, I have been playing [Tomb Raider Legend][]. It all began on Saturday morning, on the way to the pub for a hearty traditional English breakfast in a pub. I was weighing up the […]

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Music Music reviews

Some Recent Listening

Here’s some stuff that I’ve been listening to lately. **Brassbound** by *The Ordinary Boys* I should let you know that I don’t change the CD in the car very often. As a general rule, I’m so eager to either (a) get to work or (b) get back home again, that it never quite seems to […]

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Reading Festival 2005: Day 3

Slow start today. The number of bands playing today about whom we were enthusiastic in advance was less than previous days, probably mainly due to the silly heavy rock bands taking over the main stage. We decided to start the day at the third stage, and the first band we saw were called Gratitude. The […]

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Music Music reviews

Reading Festival 2005: Day 2

We were incredibly tired this (Saturday) morning, and so we slept in a bit. I then wanted to fill the car up with petrol, so by the time we were on site, we had missed the start of the music. I wasn’t too fussed about the first band, but I do think that we missed […]

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About Me

Oddness

While Karen is away, I’m kinda pottering around the house, a bit of mooching, a bit of moping, a bit of mehing. It’s more than two years since I last did this. Please excuse me if I act a little oddly. This afternoon I’ve re-read my diaries from my youth – there’s a 1988 volume […]

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Parenting

A kind of farewell to Quality Me Time

So Karen is getting very happy in her new role as mother-to-be. She’s reading enormous pregnancy books, complaining that she hasn’t got a bump yet, and trying to get out of household chores wherever possible by saying “My book says that you’re supposed to take care of me while I’m pregnant.” My retort is usually […]

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Drying Is Fun

**Drying Is Fun** ISDN 6-666-666666666-6666666666666666666 This book, by popular childrens’ author Spudchop Tagliatelle, is a must-have for parents of children suffering from post-shower-towelphobia. Witty and beautifully illustrated by popular childrens’ illustrator Robert Crowsfeet, it adopts a patronising tone that the children will mistake for sincerity, yet the parents will recognise as sharp piss-taking out of […]