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We found the dunny! A follow up review continuing my eternal hunt for the perfect loo.

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Jamie Reviews: Melons. My latest blog post reviewing, well melons.

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Tax me baby one more time: my latest blog post on the joy of paying taxes!

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There and (nearly) back again: my latest blog post with some thoughts on social media.

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I am man? A couple of thoughts on what makes me a man.

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It is finished! A celebratory blog post. #Reading #Books #BedsideBooks #ScienceFiction #JulesVerne

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Publish or perish: my latest blog post and shameless self-promotion. #SelfPublishing #Kobo #Nook #Amazon

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You, me and thee

I don’t really listen to the radio. My wife, who owns two radios for the kitchen and her office, regularly has music on while she is working, and will often gently mock me for my lack of musical knowledge as I don’t really listen to the radio. I have listened to the radio at times in the past. For a while when I was at university I had a radio alarm clock and was woken to the irritating jingles…

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The tablet is mightier than the pen

The tablet is mightier than the pen: my latest blog post #blog #blogging #BlogPost #writing #Writer #Remarkable #tablet

If you take a look at my posting frequency over the last year or so, you will probably notice my rate has slowed (a lot). Usually when my rate slows, it is because I am being distracted from my writing. In previous years this would have been work or study. This year it has been a much more pleasurable reason, looking after babby. When I find myself getting distracted, having ways to improve my…

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Firmly on Terra Firma

Here is a list of reasons to abandon human spaceflight: It is expensive The NASA programme to return humans to the Moon (Artemis) is expected to cost $93billion by 2025. It might have landed the first astronauts back on the Moon by 2027. It is dangerous Around 4% of launches result in failure, you can survive no more than a minute or two in a vacuum, radiation levels are vastly higher outside…

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Care to take a leaflet?

We’ve all been there. You are walking down the street, minding your own business, and a clinically cheerful chugger with a bolt-on grin moves to block your path asking for “just a moment of your time”. If you are lucky, your averted gaze and mumbled “no thank you” sees them seeking out their next victim. If you are unlucky, you end up taking away a leaflet, or worse. I tend to be very good at…

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Baby on Board

🎶I’m telling you it’s mighty nice. Each trip’s a trip to paradise. With my baby on board!🎵 The Be Sharps, The Simpsons, Season 5, Episode 1 I am increasingly coming to believe there is a relevant Simpsons quote for any occasion or situation. When you have over 15 days’ worth of content (at the time of writing), I guess it is sort of inevitable most topics will have come up at least once. The other…

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But why would you do that?

But why would you do that? My latest blog post #blog #blogging #blogger #blogpost #newblogpost

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where someone has done something you cannot find any rational explanation for? Have you ever found yourself looking at the person and saying “huh”? Of course you have. We all have, probably multiple times. It happened to me again recently. On this occasion it happened online so I did not get the chance to say “huh” to their face, but I am still left…

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I’ve found the dunny!

I’ve found the dunny! My latest blog post. #Blog #BlogPost #Blogger #Toilet #Dunny #Outhouse #Lavatory #WC #Latrine

I have a running joke with my Dad whenever either of us visits a stately home, castle or other historic attraction. We will try and find the toilet (often given the age of the buildings a more primitive affair than we would tolerate today) and get a picture of it to send to each other. I cannot for the life of me remember how this started, but as we send the pictures on our family group chat, it…

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Is a cow a human?

Is a cow a human?; my latest blog post #ethics #philosophy #AnimalRights #veganism #blog #BlogPost #blogging

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Lunar > Gregorian

Lunar > Gregorian: my latest blog post #GongHeiFatChoi #恭喜发财 #LunarNewYear #HappyLunarNewYear #YearOfTheDragon #BlogPost #NewBlogPost

Gong Hei Fat Choi 恭喜发财! It’s that time of year again (give or take a week at the end of January) when my family and I have our own little celebration of Lunar New Year. I’ll be honest, this mostly means we find new ways each year to eat East Asian inspired food, and the year of the dragon has been no exception.

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Goodbye Christmas tree, hello mini forest

Goodbye Christmas tree, hello mini forest #ChristmasTree #FirTree #Gardening #NewYear #NewStart #Blog #BlogPost

As I posted on Mastodon on Christmas Eve, every January the previous year’s Christmas tree is cut up, with the trunk store in the shed during the year to dry out. Come the next Christmas Eve and it is burned on the log burner. Today was the day the 2023 tree finally met its fate (I’d like to say this is a Twelfth Night/Epiphany thing, but our decorations came down on New Year’s Day and the tree…