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This is great:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060709160738AAwl4GI

I regard myself as an excellent joint roller and this afternoon, while wrapping a present for my god daughter’s 1st birthday, I realised that the same finger dexterity gives me an advantage when it comes to wrapping gifts. Read the rest of this entry »

Birthdays are the perfect opportunity for a wander down memory lane. What a great expression. There are roads and lanes aren’t there - well trodden superhighways, massive distances connected by lightning modes of travel - and then quiet little paths that take some effort even to be found. Read the rest of this entry »

Having been coughing like a moron for the past week, while marvelling at my body’s ability to eject poison and thereby renew itself (so that I can go out and wreck my lungs all over again…), I have found myself in a position where I can recommend one cough syrup over another. Read the rest of this entry »

Remember the classic scuzzy New York gang film “The Warriors”?

I was having a good laugh the other day imagining if it had been called “The Worriers”.

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My wife, Anastasia, had a baby boy at noon on Monday, 17 October. His name is Alexander. We call him Sasha. Read the rest of this entry »

How do you actually start a blog? What is worth writing a post about?

Such are the questions your correspondant entertains as he sets off from base camp at the foot of Mount Blog. Sorry I keep going on about this word “blog”. It is 50% internet jargon and at least 50% nerd. And yet it signifies something fresh and vital in the world of letters/ journalism/ publishing: a world where I too can finally syphon off some of the juice inside my head. Read the rest of this entry »

Stef and I have just worked out how to write posts, erm sorry “blog” on our new, erm “blog”.

watch this space…