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The Funeral

November 27, 2009 – 6:18 pm

Mum’s funeral was, as these things go, not a sombre affair. Temporarily lacking a vicar one of the lay readers, and a friend of Mum’s stood in for the service. He did a great job at keeping things relatively light, and there were no Holy Spigot moments (particularly impressive for an ‘amateur’ doing only his [...]

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Bye Mum

August 10, 2009 – 8:49 pm

My Mum passed away last Friday. We’d originally planned a holiday for the last two weeks, but cancelled that and switched to a week in Derbyshire. We’d go out during the day with the kids (Gulliver’s Kingdom, Alton Towers Water Park, etc.) and then I’d visit her in hospital in the evening. By the Thursday [...]

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Spring’s Lease

December 4, 2008 – 10:55 am

My daughter goes to a local Brownie pack where my aunt is Brown Owl and Claire is a helper. We found out yesterday that one of the Brownies had died after collapsing at the weekend. It doesn’t seem to have really registered with Lauren, as she didn’t particularly know the girl, but obviously the adults [...]

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Snowed

April 14, 2008 – 9:30 pm

Figuratively, not literally – I’m trying to lay a kitchen floor before the gas man cometh tomorrow, we’re getting a dog tomorrow so have enjoyed a trip to the pet shop working out why there are more varieties of dog food than human food, and we’re two weeks away from shipping at work. So now [...]

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Exercise

March 12, 2008 – 7:58 pm

An update to my campaign to deslug my life. Changing jobs has thrown a spanner in the works, though mainly a good one as the onsite gym is jolly handy. My knee hasn’t cleared up as fast as I’d hoped, so I’m doing almost no cycling, but I’m hopefully I’ll be able to start commuting [...]

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