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349/365 what I want for Christmas

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  Is peace, goodwill and an end to inequality. Is the beautiful and lovely two-month-old Tassimo coffee machine to give me coffee, not a rattle noise and some steam. I know that’s a shallow and spoilt first-world wish, but, the disobedience of the coffee machine is the last in a long line of insubordination from […]

348/365 Ikea – circling the square

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Boy Three and I were bound for Ikea and I was explaining what the big blue shop was all about. “Is it bigger than the sky?” He asked. Later, following the arrows he said: “Oh man. We are just going round in squares. It’s taking years.”     Posted with Blogsy

347/365 One for the Christmas card…

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  Nearly. We made the annual visit to the loft and went out to catch ourselves a tree. Now the tree is doing its best not to buckle under the extravagant arrangement of, well, everything that was in the loft. Feeling festive I thought, how lovely, let’s record the moment. And, as you can see, […]

345/365 a little casual racism…

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School Christmas show day again. For once I was early, queuing 20 minutes ahead (yes really) to get the seat Boy Two told me to. So as I sat and waited for the fun to start other parents tripped over folding furniture and settled in. I wasn’t really eavesdropping, but I overheard the folk near […]