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Archive for December, 2011

About ten minutes ago, I typed the final few words of my book for SANDS onto Microsoft Word (which just so happened to be Stevie Wonder lyrics) and sat back in my chair. I had a strange feeling in my throat, like my breath had caught just beneath my voicebox in a stubborn little bubble. [...]

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I bet when you were drunkenly dancing to Christmas songs you looked like this. At least you thought you did.

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Aah, the instruction manual. The bane of my life. Real Men don’t need them, of course. Real Men can look at a cot, or a toy, or a wardrobe, and instinctively know how to put them together, because they have Real Man Brains backed up by a couple of biceps boasting some Real Man Brawn. [...]

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Silent Sunday

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It’s one of the strangest feelings you get as a parent, I find. It’s love, of course, but it is love which lingers under a strange surface, like a pond covered in algae. But in this case, the algae is a form of weird aggression. ‘Aggression’ is the wrong word: let me put it another [...]

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Hate is a strong word, as the Plain White T’s once sang, and I wouldn’t say that I hate the Daily Mail. In fact, it’s an odd relationship that I have with DM: I detest myself for logging on to their website and reading the drivel they produce (don’t get me started on Liz Jones), [...]

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Well, they are pretty darn tricky.

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Most of the conversations I have with my wife begin with the words ‘If we didn’t have kids…’ In fact, so many that I even tweeted to this effect, on 20 October via Twitter for BlackBerry, as you can see. If we didn’t have kids, on a nice winter’s evening we could wander down to the castle, [...]

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This is what happens when you get your groove on in Essex. You just watch, in a couple of days the Daily Mail will be all over this. Edit: What did I tell you?  

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