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A Writer's Diary: Thursday - The Dreaded Deadlines
I am having one of those days. As deadlines start to close in on me, like the zombies in Night of the Living Dead, my ability to be creative is rapidly diminishing. This is bad news: I have an article...
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A Writer's Diary: Friday - full circle....
I don’t write much on Fridays. Perhaps it’s because of the fact that as the week draws to an end I find myself winding down. However, because I am perfectly able to get on with other work, I suspect it...
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The bloke in the bowler hat
There is something mildly depressing about walking up Beech Street from the Barbican Station the The Brewery, where the Handheld Learning Conference was held. Whether it's the lack of sunlight, the...
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Waiting
This is my first attempt at Twitter fiction.Jason Fox surveyed the street. Something looked wrong, out of place. He waited. A phone screen flickered alive. Not long now.See my main blog at...
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90th Birthday
I visited someone today is who is 90 years old. 90! Astonishing. On such occasions I always think about the changes the person has seen in the course of their lifetime so far, living in the UK.From...
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Mind your Language -- 4: Cryptic Crosswords
If, like me, you have a love of language, you should explore the strange world of the cryptic crossword. Unlike the plain crossword, the cryptic variety requires more than providing a synonym for a...
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This is a marvellous observation of what can happen when communication is not as clear as it might be.See my main blog at http://www.ictineducation.org
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Is Journalism Dead?
Not according to the panellists at the recent #Futurising conference. Tony Johnston, of the Press Association, believes that there has never been a more exciting time to go into journalism as a career....
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Nonversation
Despite the fact that it appears in, for example, the Urban Dictionary, and that there is a blog of that name, the word “nonversation” is not an official word. Not, that is, according to the editors of...
View ArticleDoctor, doctor...
I had a very Tommy Cooper-esque experience at the doctor's this morning. The conversation went like this (this is no word of a lie):Me: It hurts every time I touch my knee.Dr: So why do you keep...
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A Smile Goes A Long Way
A strange but nice thing happened to me a little while ago. I was striding along, minding my own business, when this fellow, marching towards me, donned a huge grin and threw his arm to the side in a...
View ArticleWas It Something I Said?
Was it Something I Said?It's all very well preparing an elevator speech, but the people you're delivering it to need to understand it. I have experimented with various elevator speeches over the years,...
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The New Reality
One potentially good thing about the financial situation in the UK is that we may all start to receive better service from suppliers of goods and services. This ought to happen because of two...
View ArticleOf cats and men
I’ve been re-reading a book by Rod McKuen called Listen To The Warm, and in particular a poem called “A cat named Sloopy”, in which McKuen says:A dozen summerswe lived against the world.One Christmas,...
View ArticleAutomated Thinking
That old science fiction chestnut of earthlings being taken over and ruled by super-intelligent aliens is unlikely to happen, but might be bearable if it did. Conversely, being taken over by...
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Dealing with temptation, Oscar Wilde Style
Chocolates, by Jonathan ReyesOscar Wilde, the Irish playwright, was right on the button when he said he could resist everything except temptation. I’m pretty much the same, which would be OK, I...
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Visitor parking
I asked Elaine why anyone would want to park their visitors.“So you’d know where they are?”, she said.See my main blog at http://www.ictineducation.org
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Head in the clouds?
I do a lot of writing, but at least 50% of it is in my head. Like Borges’ protagonist in The Secret Miracle (though happily without the conclusion), I can write reams without putting pen to paper.It’s...
View ArticleSeen on a t-shirt
I saw a great t-shirt today worn by a bloke in Romford, Essex, England. I should have taken a picture really, but wasn’t in the mood to have my face rearranged. It read, in huge letters:I gave up fags,...
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Knighton Wood
We discovered Knighton Wood by accident, just over a year ago. We’d visited Bancrofts School, and drove into a side road in order to turn round and go back the other way. That side road was Knighton...
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