I can’t help but feel that this whole genealogy caper would be a lot less complicated if people would just have chosen original names for their children now and again. I’ve been helping Mum to trace the family tree, and I must say I’m having lots of fun putting all the names and dates into [...]
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Wow, it’s hard work, this smiling business. When you’re walking around feeling bad about yourself, I guess you must tend to subconsciously glare at everyone as you go. I’m finding it to be a real effort to remember that I’m not doing that any more! But when you force yourself to remember your list of [...]
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For the past month I have been working on a kind of self-therapy. And yes, I’m being serious for once! For all my apparent confidence on this blog, I must confess that I am not exactly sure of myself when you take away the comfortable mask that I can use here. Hayley of the Real [...]
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I think it must be really strange not to have had computers as a part of everyday life. I don’t mean that it must have been strange then – you don’t miss what you’ve never had, after all – but rather that it must be strange for those people now. Computers were just becoming the [...]
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I spend a lot of time on the internet, since that’s where my “career” (heheh) is based. I get my writing jobs there, I make contacts there, I advertise my writing services there, I do my research there, I deliver my work to clients there, and I get paid there. I also spend a lot [...]
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Although I am still in mourning over the fact that my twenties are going to end when I am only 28 (see previous post), I’m still planning to go to Korea. It has been observed, after all, that when I return I’ll be able to shave two years off my age, and that’s a pretty [...]
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Oh, well, this is just utterly fantastic, this is. You’ll like this, if you’ve any memory at all of my recurring bouts of angst as far as the ageing process goes. It’s gotten to the point where if I looked back at that blog post from a couple of years ago, when I wept and [...]
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It has just occurred to me that about 3 or 4 years ago, when I was playing a board game with a small child, I said “You win!” as the game concluded. Actually, it’s more likely that I said “I win!”, but I want to make you think that I am a normal sort of [...]
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Sorry, I’ve sort of abandoned the blog, haven’t I? It’s not a permanent thing, I promise. In July, I didn’t blog because I was too sad. In August, I haven’t blogged because I’ve been too busy – and also because the things I’m doing, while mostly good fun, don’t seem to be providing much blog [...]
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Last night I went and stood in the rain in a field in Maghera. This was more fun than it sounds, because there were a couple of hundred other people there, along with Mr. Whippy (my hero!!), lots of guitars and drums, and one Brian Houston – in my opinion, one of Northern Ireland’s top [...]
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You Say Goodbye, I Say… Historical Snapshots It Just Makes Me Happy
