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Lessons Learned This Week

It’s been a busy old week with a lot of randomness so you might find something useful for your coming week amongst the below: Tuesday swim + Wednesday pole dance + Thursday ice skate + Friday swim = severe Saturday … Continue reading

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Tea Cups and Candles (and a hell of a mess)

There is wax everywhere.  Down the side of the oven, welded to the floor, liberally coating the back of an armchair…  The mess can only really equate to one thing.  Yes, there has been creativeness occurring at Pog Towers. It … Continue reading

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The Final Demise of Fag Ash Pog

Hooray me!  A year ago today I had my last cigarette.  Having smoked a silly amount (over 40 a day) for a silly number of years (I don’t actually want to admit how many) and having developed annual pneumonia, a … Continue reading

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The Chaos of a Sports Bra

I just wrote another e-mail.  It is similar to the e-mail to Boots that resulted in me making vast quantities of jam.  I’m not sure this will have quite the same end result but we’ll see.  Bloody sports bras. So … Continue reading

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Mushrooms, Blackbirds and Leakiness. An Average Friday Morning Really…

Well, that was rather chaotic for a Friday morning. I got up to make a series of discoveries. Norman had obviously snaffled a mushroom or two last night while I was doing thing weekly overstuffing-of-the-fridge-after-the-joys-of-Tesco.  In the night he had … Continue reading

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Wouldn’t it be nice if…

… happy things like this happened everyday?  Instead of getting the usual Error404 page when searching the Internet:   To get something a little more unusual.  Like this:     And spotted by @simonk01 in December on the Central line:   … Continue reading

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A January Smile – I Love You

The second week in January is not particularly noteworthy.  If anything it seems to be dragging more than last week (I actually thought it was Friday night when I went to bed last night.  Yes, that was Monday night).  I had a … Continue reading

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No Longer a Gym Virgin!

Oh. My. God.  I got back from my first ever trip to the gym a couple of hours ago and it seems I may have been a little over enthusiastic.  1.5 hours of treadmills, cross trainers and some weird leg … Continue reading

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The Pondering (almost) Nose Clip Pog

Despite only being a 4 day week, this has felt like the longest week of the year (which strictly speaking, I guess it has been so far).  Determined to continue with the un-fatness plan though, I was at the pool … Continue reading

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Tiny Towers Update

Finally I have started to receive guests at Pog Tiny Towers (otherwise known as ‘the bird table’).   I say ‘guests’ it’s more like ‘guest’ – just a lone blue tit at the moment, but a very tall robin has also … Continue reading

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