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  • Cost

    When I first started shopping for myself, as in buying food to eat for the month, I was living as a student in Sheffield. It was 1992. Prior to that, my experience of shopping was two fold. With my mum and dad who would stroll round the supermarket putting whatever into the basket and paying…

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  • Honesty

    How honest are you? Me? I’m as honest as the next person. Well I try to be. Yeah there are situations where I am not honest but hey, I’m not a mormon and I’m not entirely convinced people are 100% honest or they’d be a saint or something. But generally, I am honest.

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  • Writer’s Block: The X-Files Birthday

    I used to love the X Files my early to mid-twenties were spent being almost fanatical about the programme. The first two and a half series were shown on BBC2 regularly on Thursday evening at 9pm. I would set my video, disconnect the telephone and chill out on the couch while I watched the unfolding…

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  • LHC

    It seems, according to the lower quality press, that today will be our last day on Earth. Tomorrow the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a vast multimillion pound particle accelerator, gets switched on. Some, namely those that believe the entire planet was flooded in 3000BC and that all human kind are decended from Adam and Eve…

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  • Fire

    Fire

    In the cold light of day, last nights inferno seems like a small conflagration. But on inspecting the photographic evidence I collected this morning, it is clear that the blaze was of hellish proportions.

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  • Fire

    **Bang** What was that? Fireworks dear go back to sleep **Bang** Are you sure? No! So I got out of bed, put on my jeans and slippers and went into the lane-with-no-name. Flames, at least 10 foot high were licking the trees on the boundary of the Brierley Social Club and Mr Pritchards garden. Behind…

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  • Long time

    **Ringing Phone** Man – Answering the phone Hello Generic company, Peter Blogs speaking how can I help? Person on the other end of the Phone – Hello Is that Peter Blogs?

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  • Holiday – Skegness (2008)

    Holiday – Skegness (2008)

    So I said to GtHD “This year, we will be exploring the Lincolnshire Coast”To which he replied “Oh you’ll have a great time. I went t’ Skegness at Easter”“What’s it like?” I asked, expectantly“Typical seaside resort” he replied “All that coast is great”“I’ve always imagined Skegness to be like Blackpool““Oh no it’s not as bad…

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  • Special

    Do you have a special place? The kind of place you tend to keep to yourself? The place you don’t want ruining by hordes of tourists and other dirty people. How about that little special thing you like that not many have? Maybe it’s a biscuit or a cake or a drink or something. Does…

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  • King Dong

    Yesterday’s entry about the trials and tribulations of sports and physical education during my tenure at secondary school reminded me of an amusing story. I can vouch for it’s authenticity because I was there and I remember it well because it helped take the heat off me for a few months (at least).

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