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So, rather embarrassingly I have reached the age of 35 (and 17 years of driving) without being able to reverse park a car.
I don’t know why this is. I am not thick. While not a terribly confident driver, I am competent (mostly). I also have issues copying techniques as a mirror image [...]

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Some trips you plan meticulously, others you get promised home-made marshmallows and hammock space if you can only get on a plane to southern Spain with two days notice.
Of course, said people don’t always warn you that the marshmallows explode…

… and then other people steal your hammock!

But with plenty of good company, sun, and copious [...]

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I’ve got a lot of things bombing around my head at the moment, all vying for equal attention. As I’ve mentioned in the previous post, I may (or may not) be coming up for grading soon in the martial art I’m learning. I’ve been doing some extra training to try and gain some [...]

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This was said to me this morning in a mock-exasperated voice by an elderly gentleman. He wasn’t cross, and I hadn’t just mown him over – on the contrary, I was patiently standing out of his way to allow him through our local GP’s surgery door ahead of me. It made me smile.
I [...]

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It’s been a funny ol’ week.
A mixture of crappy weather, a variant form of man-flu that had jumped the gender divide, a spontaneously bursting knee vein and running out of witty replies for concerned bruise viewers had left me without much oomph or inclination to do anything much. The week has mostly passed me [...]

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meh
As you were…

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Everything I’ve seen of Project Natal looks amazing. I’m particularly impressed with the video excerpt of Peter Molyneux’s character that responds to and expresses moods in a very realistic way.
I’m not a huge Microsoft fan, but I would totally buy an Xbox for this. It will also be extremely interesting to see how [...]

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I got my TAM London booking confirmation earlier today, so I’m feeling a bit more confident that the payment hasn’t got lost in the depths of Google Checkout.
So, I have been chatting to merialc and we have plans afoot for a pre-TAM mini meet on the Friday evening. She apparently knows the [...]

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Firstly, and most importantly, today is five years since Li’l Bhaji made an appearance. He had his big party on Saturday and had a fab time, so tonight is (yet another!) family trip to McDonalds for dinner. Thank goodness Akra’s favourite food is a little more sophisticated as his birthday is next Saturday [...]

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