Month: January 2014

Down with the sickness

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Hi, It’s been a quiet week this time around. On Tuesday night – or Wednesday morning? – I woke up feeling very cold. Not the sort of cold you get when you’ve kicked the duvet off, or the heating’s packed in either. Ah, hello random illness! I’ll go prepare the spare room shall I? 🙂 I’ve been off all week feeling somewhat rough, very tired and unusually, not hungry. A small joy in all of this, although I don’t seem to be getting thinner. Perhaps all the loafing around and sleeping hasn’t helped the old walking routine. Now, I have thankfully [touches wood] only had a few minor blips with my health over the years. Perhaps not a bad thing […]

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Check your six

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Hi, Funny how some nights out seen to be damn near perfect. For those times, I think it’s good to sit back and bask in the afterglow. Did anything amazing happen? No, not especially, but everything went to plan. It all started to go right when the Ever Lovely Mrs J and I came to a mutually agreeable time on me going out. All was cool, calm and collected. Hell, I’d even managed to read to both kids and have a decent shave without damaging myself before leaving. As Bill or Ted would say: most unprecedented. 🙂 Arriving at the venue, I was greeted by a group of folk waving their arms about while some other folk, in army fatigues, […]

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Cleaning up

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Hi folks, Larks, it’s late – or, depending on your point of view, very early 🙂 Unusually for me, I’ve been playing a video game into the wee hours. Normally, it’s web pages, blogs, podcasts and maybe a view tunes of yesteryear via YouTube on a Friday night…. Blogger Challenge The challenge this week is to write about skincare: do you have a routine? Are there products you like to use? A routine? Well, not really, no, I don’t do the regular cleanse, tone and moisturise gig. The closest I think I get is the every-other-day use of a Clinique Facial Scrub for Men and the daily use of moisturiser. I have greasy skin, so I’m careful not to use too much. I […]

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Wrong and then right. Maybe it’s all in the mind?!

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Hi, I used to think that time was a constant. You know, the dependable oscillation of an electrically charged quartz wafer, the slow turn of the planet, or the slow arc of the sun across the sky. But no. 🙂 Instead, time seems to run at different speeds. Take for example waking up. The alarm goes and through Herculean effort, I manage to raise not only my eyelid, but focus my eye and swipe ineffectively at the smart phone.  🙂 Apparently, five minutes pass, whereas in my head, it’s ten seconds before the snooze function kicks in. I wonder if this lost time is used to pad the morning when you get into the office and you realise you are […]

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Fitting in…. or not.

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Hi, So we’re a few days into the new year. Even if you didn’t have a calendar to hand, the tip off would be the sales of get fit DVDs, the return of the nautical look and Easter Eggs (and not the ones the NSA sideloaded into your smartphone either 😀 ). Due to the way Xmas fell this year, I’ve had the good fortune of a number of days off, and this week, I’ve only been in two days. A nice easy welcome back to the working week….. or ‘turning up’ as I like to call it 😉 Last year I signed up for a Blogger Challenge and this involves receiving a topic suggestion and, well, you guessed it, […]

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