November 2009

Stress-free City move? I wouldn’t count your Olives on it

It leaves you feeling all sorts of conflicting emotions on completion. After several long months you feel overjoyed, disorientated, and even somewhat beaten down. You have reached the end of the road, giving in now is the only way you can be at peace again. You have just signed a contract on a new flat.

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You haven’t talked to Benjamin Spall on Facebook lately

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Thinking for yourself is soon to become a thing of the past. Facebook, the popular social networking website and all round orgy of unnecessary information has recently started a campaign to poke and prod users into re-establishing relationships with long-lost friends who, as they point out with great tact, “You haven’t talked [to] on Facebook

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Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street

As many of you will undoubtedly know (mostly down to Google’s fantastic recognition of such) Sesame Street is forty years old today. Completely by coincidence, last week the book I’m currently reading – The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell – went several chapters deep into what a fantastic and ground breaking show Sesame Street was,

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Leave your coat, hat, and preconceptions at the door

Everybody younger than yourself is dreadful and careless in everything they do. Correct. Or at least that’s how the story should play out. I’m at the age now whereby somebody can be a world famous athlete/singer/actor/x-factor contestant and not only be younger than myself, but their age isn’t even seen as an issue. No Fearne

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It is always the unreadable that occurs

Have you strapped yourself in? Well do it, it’s important. For here marks the obligatory first article in anybody’s blog – the article that promises so much, yet has every promise picked apart, piece by piece, over the coming weeks and months of it’s online presence. What is a blog anyway? A collection of words

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