105 posts, April 2020 to August 2024.
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Great! Great! Smashing! Great! This was missing last night from Bullseye as it came back for one evening. There was also no “Let’s see what you could have won!” but the idea of a star prize of a motorboat that had been held in storage since the 1980’s was amusing. The darts…
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Football is finding its feet again after lockdown and the matches are getting better. My team’s results are encouraging and watching the match yesterday, we are getting back to the old Fergie teams who no matter how many the opponent scored usually scored more.
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I have been thinking long and hard about whether to continue blogging – or my attempts at blogging. The reason? I saw my raw website results for the first time in the week and these were quite gutting. Only one follower in fact and the most visitors in one day has been 18. The…
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A study of contradictions. Lockdown is easing in all sorts of ways, yet a sudden spike in Leicester could mean local lockdowns reinforced. Worrying. I know a couple of people from Leicester who work or used to work (in one case), at the university. That is the University of…
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There were some further sales of Once Upon A Week in the past week. It is gratifying to know that there are some people who feel that my first children’s book is worth buying. I have to assume it is parents, or maybe teachers, or parents who have become teachers in lockdown.…
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What to blog about today? This is hard. Thinking up something that people might want to read on a regular basis, especially when you are not a naturally gregarious person. Someone told me I have to make these blogs upbeat – with no negativity – and brief. As someone who sees the…
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It’s coming home! It’s coming home! It’s coming, football’s coming home! Good news for a lot of us and probably not for others. Of course, this means that Match of the Day is back on Saturday evenings, which is when I have been enjoying a rewind of Life on Mars and then Ashes to…
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I have just coined a new word Clockdown – at least I hope I have. There are probably many people trying a few portmanteaus on for size – blockdown, flockdown, glockdown, stockdown. Even I have used the word lickdown, but that was an inadvertent typo. Now I haven’t decided yet…
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Yes, I’ve decided to hold a sale. You can now buy my books at lock down prices. I have reduced them as low as I can whilst still being able to make a small royalty. Let’s get reading!
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So as the title says, I may be blogging a dead horse with giving you these clues to solve. I thought it may be because one has to give a name and email address but my website guru tells me it is necessary to validate user input to prevent Lotaspam – a musical sequel I believe.…
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Wednesday greetings. I am back at work so was not intending blogging this week but I have news – good and bad.
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Good news! Harry, is back. This means The Trouble with Harry post will now make more sense. Bad news! He is now part of the walking dead
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