May 12, 2012

me and big sue...

Last night – date night – we spent an hour in the company of Lucian Freud’s paintings at the National Portrait Gallery. I am so used [...]

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March 10, 2012

the first day...

If I was ever going to experience a miracle, I fully expected it to involve a hallelujah chorus or a bearded dude in a fancy robe; [...]

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February 27, 2012

day one of holiday: spent mostly in soho...

I have a week off! My first in over eight months and I plan to rock its bloody face off. This morning I spent a couple [...]

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February 12, 2012

a weekend made of attempts to escape the freezin...

image by Rex’s Aunty Sus

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February 4, 2012

electric dreams...

Last night was all about homemade soup in front of the fire. This morning we went to the Electric for eggs and bacon and coffee and [...]

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December 18, 2011

stupid, silly season...

bear totem: possibly magic December has mostly been made of days in a row of back to back meetings; several difficult-but-necessary ‘I am terminating your contract [...]

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November 24, 2011

thankful...

For being at this end of four billion years of evolutionary success; for the bittersweet gift of witnessing the sunset of a good, long life; for [...]

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November 6, 2011

jerusalem...

I always thought it odd when we sung Blake’s hymn at school: ‘green and pleasant’ was not my impression of England. Ensconced in New Zealand in [...]

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September 18, 2011

mr p’s birthday weekend was all about the ...

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August 9, 2011

ninth...

The National Indices of Multiple Deprivation use a weighted score to determine the services a community needs to positively impact the lives of its members. They [...]

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July 17, 2011

from the weekend...

Friday night 10 Pin Bowling with Phil & Tom, The Wise Ones, and Mr & Mrs Skeeterific (Ash got two strikes. This was unexpectedly sexy). We [...]

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March 16, 2011

how can i miss you if you never go away?...

It took me a very long time to learn how to be alone. Properly alone: without any emotional entanglements, or a friend-with-benefits in the wings; just [...]

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