Friday, 31 August 2007

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Silver Number 5 A silver number 5 balloon floats in the air over the Old Kent Road. Spiralling upwards, lost from the grip of a child who wa...
Sunday, 26 August 2007

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Where to go, what to do There was a time when we went out to the same places over and over and over again and not get bored. Now we flounder...
Friday, 24 August 2007

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Out of Office I've just received an email from the person I emailed half an hour ago which elicited an out-of-office-automatic response ...

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I am a passenger Occassional regulars From Highbury & Islington getting on a first capital connect service to Moorgate with me (3rd carr...
Thursday, 23 August 2007

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Tower Bridge We waited ages. I think the bridge opened. As we got going. again I spotted dave's van again - london calling - second ti...
Tuesday, 21 August 2007

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Sheds Pssst! In all the searching I've been doing I've discovered an underground geek clique. They call themselves shedders . They ...
Monday, 20 August 2007

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Shed My garden has a shed. Delapidated. Its one of those typical sheds - overlapping boards that are rotting away with the wet weather. Its ...
Sunday, 19 August 2007

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Occupied I've been occupied with Making curtains (the only set in the house - not buying enough tape, having to squeeze the curtain hook...
Tuesday, 14 August 2007

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Sent to Coventry Again. Leadership training. Before it was an empowerment module. This time its about our motivations and values. I'm mo...
Tuesday, 7 August 2007

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The View Very still, he looks out over the battlefield, surveying the quiet of the morning, from a vantage point in the battlements. Nobody ...
Monday, 6 August 2007

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Focus on Blogging I've never written a popular blog - not for me the mass readership of between 200 and 2000 a day. But recently I'v...
Sunday, 5 August 2007

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Going out Parked at Dalston Junction on a red line, a woman performs her toilette standing at the back of her Mercedes with the boot open an...
Friday, 3 August 2007

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Crackpot So the final day of raku summer school was all about the firing. We did about 5 firings. Stack the pots in, heat it up to 1040ish, ...
Wednesday, 1 August 2007

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The Kiss He's clasping her to him in a long embrace, pressing his lips onto hers with enough vigour to tip her backwards, one foot off t...
Monday, 30 July 2007

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A short play about filing, or laughing Set: Bibliographic Services Department, open plan office . An envelope with hand-written address is l...

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Hair raising There's a tall man standing directly under a ventilation shaft on the tube carriage - the front end section, midway between...
Wednesday, 25 July 2007

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Two crap jokes walked into a pub ... How much do chavs pay for shampoo? Pan ten (think of it in a cockney accent) Two parrots sitting on a p...

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Lunch An owner tries to coax her morbidly obese dog to walk home. He's a fat black labrador whose back legs are struggling to hold himse...
Tuesday, 24 July 2007

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Ceramics Summer School I've been at ceramics summer school for the last two days. It completes on friday week when, fingers crossed for ...
Monday, 23 July 2007

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Orphan Bails' father died last week. He had been living in a nursing home for some time after becoming unable to look after himself and ...