Category: life
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Aviation has been a common thread throughout my life – from the giant red encyclopedia that was ever present in our house, to the balsa Tiger Moth my Dad made at the kitchen table when we were small (the smell of dope still brings that memory back), and my brother building countless plastic model kits…
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I’m sitting in Wetherspoons this morning, feeling incredibly smug to have bagged a table in a booth. Doing so seems to depend on arriving before 9:30. I had planned to be here for breakfast yesterday morning, but overslept. That seems to happen when you work 18 hour days all week. I looked at the bedside…
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I’m sitting, writing this post while holed up in the junk room at home. I’m sitting in front of a desk with two monitors on it – one connected to a hulking PC that can out-perform most supercomputers, and the other connected to a svelte brushed aluminium slab – a Mac mini. Across the room…
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Taylor Swift’s new album “The Life of a Showgirl” arrived this morning. As a fifty-something guy that invariably listens to retro radio stations targeted at people of a certain age, I probably have no business listening to songs sung by a girl twenty years younger than me. Or so expectation would have you believe. I’ve…
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Can you imagine what life would be like without a computer? I’m old enough that I don’t need to imagine it – I can remember it. Our family’s first computer arrived when I was about 11 years old. I was part of the 1980s home computer boom in the UK – the generation that grew…
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While racing from one thing to another throughout a typical day, I rarely give any thought to what I might not do – I’m invariably consumed with what I have not done – or what others might be able to accuse me of not doing. It never occurs to me to not do something –…
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After spending much of the weekend hiding from the world with a nasty cold, we ventured out tonight rather than waste the theatre tickets we bought over a year ago and promptly forgot all about. If the theatre hadn’t sent an email reminder yesterday, there would have been two empty seats in row C this…
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Six Days Six days have somehow passed since I last wrote – there’s quite a lot to unpack. I’m not really sure where to start, if I’m honest. Somehow a visit to London last week completely escaped the blog. The company I work for has moved offices – to a space near Paddington Station. Finding…
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I’m having a day off from everything today. Well… I say everything, but I’ve filled the washing machine three times. Who knew that chores are a great excuse to avoid getting on with other things? I’m half expecting somebody to notice the title of the post, and write an acerbic email about J K Rowling…
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The clock ticked past 11pm a few minutes ago. It’s been six days since I last posted. I’m not entirely sure where the week went. I haven’t been out running. I haven’t even made it out of the house at lunchtime most days. It’s just been a slog from one day to the next –…
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There’s writing prompt at WordPress today asking “what are your favourite types of foods”. To be honest, it would be easier to list the foods I don’t like, rather than foods I like best – because I’ll pretty much eat anything (within reason). We’ll ignore that they have written both types and foods as plural.…
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After setting the alarm clock to go off at 7am this morning – affording me an hour to have a wash, get dressed, and get to the railway station, my wonderful body of course decided that 6am was a much better time to be waking up. I’m not entirely sure how it achieves this kind…
