Well, I’m almost two weeks into my new job. It feels good to be back in a school again. It feels even better to be back in a job with a wider range of responsibilities. It feels brilliant to be in a job where I feel like I actually have something to do. My new …
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OMG! It’s Been a Year!
I have really been neglecting this blog. Considering that I’m paying to have the damn thing hosted, this can’t stand. So what has happened in the last year? Quite a lot really. First of all, the new job mentioned in the last post. If I’m honest, I’m not happy in that job. I’m not going …
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The Future
I have a new job. As of the 1st September, I am going to be working for a university in central London as a “Windows Specialist”. If I’m entirely honest, I’m not entirely sure what my day to day duties are going to be but I have inferred that it’s going to involve helping to …
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Kindness of Strangers
So, I was out cycling this evening. I decided to take my bike up to Someries Castle because I’ve driven past the brown sign pointing at it on my way to work every day for the last two years and I was curious to see what, exactly, was there. The answer is not very much but I digress. …
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Me – A Progress Report
It’s been a month or thereabouts since I made the post about trying to get healthier. This is how it’s gone so far: So, lets start with the bits where I’ve been reasonably good. In the space of a month, I have biked about 50 miles, been swimming once and swam about 600m, I have …
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Me
Over the last few years, I have had… issues… with my weight. I have never been morbidly obese but I have been bigger and heavier than I’d like to be. A few years ago, I lost a substantial amount of weight for reasons that I eventually put down to stress; I was in a job …
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Merry Belated Christmas
Well, Merry Christmas I guess. This has been a bit of a strange one for me. For starters, I’ve been sick with the flu for a good chunk of it and really have only started to feel myself again now. The other strange thing about is that I think that this is the first time …
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Ian’s Pasta Sauce Recipe
Right, I’m going to try to write about something other than bloody computers for once and share a recipe for a pasta sauce that I think I’m quite good at. I think that it’s classed as a ragout, I’m hesitant to call it a Bolognese as it has whole tomatoes in it rather than tomato puree and …
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James at the NIA – 22/11/2014
The initial draft of this post merely said “:D”. Suffice to say, I had a good time. The band James have been touring promoting their new album, La Petit Mort. On Saturday, they played the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham and had StarSailor supporting them. My girlfriend and I were in the audience, her birthday gift to me! I wasn’t …
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Cashing In – Queen Forever Review
I was listening to the Chris Evans Breakfast Show on Radio 2 on my way to work a few weeks ago. Brian May and Roger Taylor were guests. They were talking about their upcoming album and the new tracks that were appearing on it. This piqued my interest. He even played a couple of the …
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