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Nanowrimo Begins
Well, at least the sun is shining today. Yesterday’s dismal weather was a stark contrast to the clear skies and perfect firework weather of Saturday. As a result we generally spent the day clustered...
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Birthday
I’m supposed to be of an age where I’m either a curmudgeon about birthdays or I pretend they don’t happen. Happily this is not the case, and I’m merrily resisting the urge to wax on about passing time,...
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Chatterbooks
In all the excitement about being another year older, I also had the inaugural session of the Chatterbooks group that we’ve set up in the Children’s Library in Sunbury. It went rather well....
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The AnniBirthary Weekend
So the plotting and planning was eventually revealed to be a grand gathering on Saturday at the Addlestone TopGolf range, and a grand gathering it was indeed. In a feat somewhat akin to the herding of...
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International Women’s Day
I’m not normally particularly good at mornings. In part this is due to being an avowed night owl to the point where I’m pretty sure my biology is fixed in a nocturnal set of cycles. Even when I have...
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Party Preparations
In a little over a week, the Maidment clan will be gathering again to party and play in celebration – and I’ve been running around making it all happen. Perhaps a career in event planning should be...
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At last, A Relaxing Weekend
So… Drama done, a day of work at the library that included prep for next week’s Chatterbooks, and then round to my brother’s place with T’Other Half and a mutual friend for a barbecue/Mad Hatter’s Tea...
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Chatterbooks
It was my Tuesday Chatterbooks group today, and I’m pleased to announce that it went stunningly well. After last month’s slump, I was concerned that the group was moribund before it had even had a...
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Celebratory Weekend
Knowing my daughter reads my blog occasionally, I’ve had to be quite muted the last couple of weeks while we planned her birthday weekend. It did make for an amusingly perplexed look on her face...
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Observations on a Leaving Do
We were out last night at the Leaving Do of someone who works with Lady M – in among the conversations I had a few moments to sit back and watch people, so here’s what I found in my notebook this...
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Well, that was a fast month
Life continues to bounce up and down, as well as take little tangential side journeys, but we’re still here. The library has had me building haunted toilets and suspending them from the ends of...
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Rushing Around
Sunday saw us leaving the house about six in the morning and heading north to start our holidays. Already fatigued a little by all the zipping down to the coast and back, I was a bit cranky as we...
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Tuesday Tantrums
I’ve been working a few extra hours at the library today to cover for someone on leave – only fair given the truly humongous amount of holiday I’ve got coming up later – and if there was one word that...
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XBox One Day One
It should come as no surprise to anyone who knows me to hear that we have a new addition to the household. We’ve always been a multiplatform household of gamers. Our living room boasts XBox 360...
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Busy Week
Sadly I’ve had to concentrate on getting back into the swing of things and the day to day shenanigans of remembering how to work for a living this week. The library has had me return to giving OAPs and...
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Birthday Celebrations
It was my birthday earlier this week, bringing me to the tender age of 42 years young. I can honestly say it’s been the nicest and most relaxing birthday I’ve had in a few years, and it’s certainly...
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Is there some kind of kickball thing going on?
Another stellar England kickball competition I love our estate in the summer when big competitions are on – the shouts and screams are deeply amusing, and just distorted enough by echoes to mean...
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Disney Day One
The flight went well, with only a minimum of irritations, I’m pleased to report. This left only my first attempt at driving an automatic in the US to contend with. My overwhelming memories are that it...
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Disney Day Six
For the most part we had a lazy day by the pool today. We’d originally thought of going to Seaworld, but couldn’t face it. So after the usual filling breakfast we found loungers in a relatively shaded...
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So, I seem to be about to do some cosplaying
We’re going to go to a Thorpe Park Fright Night again this year, having enjoyed it so much last year. The difference is that this year we’re going to go in costume, having seen quite a few people do it...
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