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Tales from the Sofa: A Legendary Time
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Tales from the Sofa. Saturday, 23 May 2015. This is a short story inspired by the song . I Am Legend . By Loved Up Les. And in memory of my Uncle, A.W.S, a legend in his time. 8220;Come on, we’ve got to go.” I heard a voice calling through the mist. Narrowing my eyes against the head lights of the vehicle facing me, I could make out a shadow waving at me. I approached him cautiously. “Come on, Jack, everyone’s waiting.”. 8220;Quit playing around, Jack, come on it’s time to go.”. 8220;Quit messing around,...
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Tales from the Sofa: Sometimes I just really hate people
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Tales from the Sofa. Saturday, 21 March 2015. Sometimes I just really hate people. A few weeks ago I published a blog post that moved (by moved, I mean annoyed/disgusted) someone so much that they felt compelled to comment on what a horrible, misanthropic view I had of the world.*. In my day job, I work with a lot of charities and community groups. My own business is a social enterprise so, despite my outwardly misanthropic stance, I actually do care something about the human race and my fellow man.
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Outbox: Poles apart on Eurovision
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Wednesday, 14 May 2014. Poles apart on Eurovision. So, Eurovision then. This is not going to be an entry about the winner - it's just a bloke in a dress*,. Kenny Everett played the queen whilst sporting a beard as far back as the '80s, for crying out loud, can we all just move on? Rather, it's about the fundamental motives that lie behind where the votes are cast. Maintain good neighbourly and political relations with your important trading or ancestral partners. As a musical ignoramus, I don't know what...
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Outbox: Ask no questions
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Tuesday, 14 October 2014. I was fortunate enough to spend the weekend just gone in Madrid, ostensibly for a mate's birthday but basically to eat and drink a lot for a couple of days. It led, this morning, to the odd experience of waking up in another country but going to work in London in the afternoon. Starbucks are a company that are not easy to like. They paid Corporation Tax for the first time in four years in the UK in 2013 only after adverse publicity. And a drop in sales. And you know what? Looks ...
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Outbox: July 2014
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Tuesday, 15 July 2014. Mining for Millionaire's Slices. I know everybody says they don't like to look at themselves in a mirror, but in my case, it really is something I avoid if possible in a very literal sense. I have to look at my face, of course, in the morning, when shaving or combing hair or whatever, but beyond that, the rest of my body may as well not exist in the parallel universe behind those glass planes. It basically said. Cheers, brain - give it to me straight, why don't you? On that note, a...
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Outbox: May 2015
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Monday, 25 May 2015. So a couple of weeks on, then, and the first noises are already being made about 'changing Britain's relationship with Europe', Nigel Farage having to applaud, to his own apparent surprise, from the sidelines in the meantime. With a referendum on that relationship with Europe surely now a matter of time, Cameron is making it pretty clear from the first days of this government what it is that people have voted for. Has the country lurched to the right? You might have expected Labour t...
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Outbox: Bleak Friday
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Friday, 28 November 2014. Yet people blindly swarm to the shops at these events, believing they're getting a bargain. What you end up with is scenes like these. With fighting, desperate scrambles, swarms of shoppers descending on harassed, under-secured retail staff, police in attendance even. What the hell has happened to us? On exactly what I'm talking about - the man was absolutely on the money. It's about the most aptly name shopping 'event' on the calendar. Dawn of the Dead. If you like this. Simple...
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Outbox: June 2014
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Tuesday, 3 June 2014. This past weekend-and-a-bit saw me lose my music festival virginity at the third-ever Maifeld Derby in what was an extremely sunny Mannheim in central(ish)-southern Germany. I'd been to a day at the now defunct Fleadh in Finsbury Park many years ago, but that was just a few hours in a park in the same city in which I lived, so could hardly count. It helped greatly that, two hours out of the three days excepted, it was warm and sunny. It helped that I drank a lot of beer, and a l...
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Outbox: Reflection
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Monday, 25 May 2015. So a couple of weeks on, then, and the first noises are already being made about 'changing Britain's relationship with Europe', Nigel Farage having to applaud, to his own apparent surprise, from the sidelines in the meantime. With a referendum on that relationship with Europe surely now a matter of time, Cameron is making it pretty clear from the first days of this government what it is that people have voted for. Has the country lurched to the right? You might have expected Labour t...
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Outbox: Something good had to come out of Fifty Shades...
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Friday, 22 August 2014. Something good had to come out of Fifty Shades. Huge congratulations are due to my friend H, who has had her first novel, Inspired by Night. It's just come out for Kindle and in paperback and I make no apologies for giving it a plug here. I'm not altogether sure if she realises quite how hard it is to do what she's done, and how proud of herself she should be for her achievement. The title of this entry, of course, refers to Fifty Shades of Grey. It's still quite something, though...
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