Autumn's here

there's a strange orange glow lighting up the sky from the direction of Clapham tonight. It's very specific - almost like something might be on fire. It could just be the fog which sems to be covering South West London this evening..........

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yup, just stuck me head out the window. It's fog. Wrap up folks, winter's a comin...

Root of all evil

Thought my filling was perhaps a bit dodgy recently, as I have a mild sharp pain from time to time. I've now been reliably informed that it might be the root and I may need a root canal...

I think I'll ignore it for a bit and hope it goes away. I hear that works.

Brighton mate....

I had an unexpected trip to Brighton at the weekend, a birthday surprise from the lovely J.... Bloody fantastic place - it's kind of unfair that one little city gets to be so great whilst the rest of us slum it in the real world. All I knew in the build up was that I was to keep Saturday 'evening' free and that I had to get up at 9am in the morning, so couldn't get drunk after work. I failed, of ...

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Just watched 'Confetti'

the British film starring a host of well known faces about a wedding competition. Usual pleasant enough British rom com fare, but I'll never be able to watch Peep Show in the same way again, having just watched 90 minutes of Jez and Sophie romping around in the altogether.....

sage observations

I'm 32. How the feck did that happen? That's proper old.

getting old

my 32nd year draws to a close, and I'm planning on hitting the sack in all of about 15 minutes. Still got it.

To be fair, was up at 4.30am this morning to fly back from Northern Ireland, making it two pre-5am starts in 3 days. I'm not quite the doddery old man who wakes up at 5am every day so I'm feeling the pace a bit. Had an amazing time back home with J and mum; can't remember the last time I ...

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There's a certain irony

to the fact that an iconic image of a freedom fighter synonymous with the creation of a communist state is now being mass produced in an asian sweatshop for Primark.

Another qualification campaign draws to a close...

what price Northern Ireland reserves beating the Czech Republic away from home, whilst San Marino record their first victory since.... err...... ......28 April, 2004 - their only victory ever (against the might of Liechtenstein. In a friendly)? Against Slovenia, a team which beat them 5-0 two months ago?


Ah.

Bring on Euro 2012 then.

#Trafigura & #Carter-Ruck fail

Those who dismiss Twitter as a pointless waste of time and bandwith would do well to take notice of events last night and this morning. Within hours of the story breaking that the Guardian had had a court injunction served on behalf of libel lawyers to stop them reporting parliamentary question time, champions of free speech and those who follow them had bumped #Trafigura (responsible, ...

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car trouble

I got ripped off by a car wash the other day. Had just finished excitedly texting J from inside the fluffy wheels of fun (sadly, I love car washes) when the foam stopped mid-spurt, leaving the front half of the car covered in soap and the rest dry as a bone. I went back to try and get a refund from the guy in the shop, who was as intelligent, amenable, capable and fragrant as you would expect of ...

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happy anniversary to me

this time 3 years ago, I was inebriated and basking in the glory of having just completed my first ever 10K run....

Ah, I remember it like it was yesterday. The culmination of the long, hot, summer of 2006: the training, the fund raising, the regular blogging..... How we all wish for those days again, especially given I was still a relative whippersnapper at the time.

Still, I now have the half ...

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Who needs blisters anyway?

Got a beautifully crafted email this morning from Dave Bedford, erstwhile moustachioed middle-distance Olympian and current race director of the London Marathon. It gently broke the news to me that I will not be joining the 39,999 other participants pounding the streets of our nation's capital next April, as follows:

"Commiserations

By now you should have received the news that your applica...

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