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2011 in review (this is some magic thing that the blog did for me)
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 6,500 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway … Continue reading
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A Day of Distractions
As a general rule, most of us will go back to work tomorrow after at least a few days off. (Friends on maternity leave or who are retired, it’s probably best to keep quiet at this point). On my … Continue reading
Progress of the Fantabulous Idea
In a blog post a while back I mentioned a fantabulous idea I had. It turned out my writing wasn’t very clear that day as although some of my friends had understood that I had a fantabulous idea, they didn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged a fantabulous idea, Christmas Lion, dating, interview, introduction agency
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Happy Christmas to you!
Well, I think I may have turned onto Kistie Allsop overnight (I wish). I started today with a bike ride – ok, not quite how you picture the queen of crafting – but it was very country bumpkinsville-ish. I saw … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, Christmas Eve, cookies, Crafts, Norman, Pogimals
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Dinner at Pog Towers
Last night I had some friends over for dinner. I say ‘over for dinner’ but actually, to reduce the panicking on my part, we just had fish and chips from the place down the road. (I know, I’m a complete … Continue reading
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Tagged dinner, fish and chips, homemade table cloth, penguin fan, Pog Towers, table mats
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Pog’s festive day out
Today is the first day of my Christmas holidays (hooray!). Only I don’t seem to have been touched by the Christmas spirit, so I decided to have a festive day out. If the spirit wasn’t going to find me, I’d … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas holidays, Christmas jumper, festive, festive spirit, friends, friendship
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Nasty Nightmares
For the last few weeks I’ve been having really quite bad nightmares. The unspecified sort that wake to up repeatedly, scaring both you and the cats, but which you cannot remember one scrap of detail about the second you sit … Continue reading
The joys of commuting
This morning I had to de-ice the car and the thermometer had only just gone up to 0.5 degrees when I got to the station. I got in the train, curled up on my seat as best I could and … Continue reading
A fantabulous idea?
You know those ideas that seem absolutely fantabulous but soon after – usually at the point where you can’t really get out of them – you wonder what the hell you were thinking? Well, I’ve had one of those recently. … Continue reading
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Tagged a fantabulous idea, dating, idea, introduction agency, what was I thinking?
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Do you ‘get’ cats?
Earlier this week someone told me that ‘they don’t get cats’. Saying this to someone who has a borderline unhealthy obsession with their felines is akin to telling a new mum that their child is ‘not very interesting’ and is … Continue reading
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