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heroes

November 12, 2011

heroes...

Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret Atwood, Madeline Albright, Christopher Hitchens, Henry Rollins, Billy Bragg, Janet Frame, Martin Amis, and Etta James would all be attendance at my [...]

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how to organise a fancy wedding in your pyjamas

June 30, 2011

how to organise a fancy wedding in your pyjamas...

Image credit: Sus Early on I made a rookie error and bought a Bridal Magazine. After that trauma we decided to ignore the ‘Wedding Industry’ as the [...]

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weekend round-up: an enigma, wrapped in awesome, served with cake

November 29, 2010

weekend round-up: an enigma, wrapped in awesome,...

On Saturday afternoon I listened to the afternoon play on Radio 4 and baked The Best Carrot Cake In The Known Universe and promptly transmorgifurated into [...]

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friday five ~ woo hoo! a quiz! win a prize!

October 28, 2010

friday five ~ woo hoo! a quiz! win a prize!...

The best way to spend an Autumn afternoon (IMHO) involves tea, a blazing fire, a couple of sleeping cats and a movie. I spent many afternoons [...]

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the pale blue dot (or, perspective: i haz it)

May 19, 2010

the pale blue dot (or, perspective: i haz it)...

‘We succeeded in taking that picture from deep space, and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On [...]

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i tweet, therefore i am

March 6, 2010

i tweet, therefore i am...

Over the last two and a bit years I have sent around 4,000 nuggets of 140-character gold. If it is possible to have feelings of squiffiness [...]

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friday five: chipmunk starwars mashup

February 4, 2010

friday five: chipmunk starwars mashup...

From the brilliance of powerpig

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the queen of procrastination

September 9, 2009

the queen of procrastination...

Below is a visual depiction of my life. What with the work emails and the fun emails, managing spam, writing uni assignments, the tweeting, blogging, skyping, [...]

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twitter circa 1935

June 30, 2009

twitter circa 1935...

‘To aid persons who wish to make or cancel appointments or inform friends of their whereabouts, a robot message carrier has been introduced in London, England. [...]

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facebook memo

June 13, 2009

facebook memo...

Dearest friends, family, current and ex-colleagues, old school chums, those I have met on travellytrips, courses, the net and Fletch who pulled me off a table [...]

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sas' top eleven tips on how to blog

June 8, 2009

sas' top eleven tips on how to blog...

Don’t worry about the techy bits. WordPress looked too complicated for me so I picked Blogger. It’s easy, it’s free and because its owned by Google, [...]

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spring clean

May 4, 2009

spring clean...

For the first time in months I spent a few hours this afternoon, in a cafe with coffee, Billie Holliday, and a brand new journal. It [...]

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