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"...Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines"

I came on here really to post a blog I have just posted somewhere else that began: "Forgive me. Its been over 7 months since my last blog"

However, the upbeat tone of what I had writen and my (sometimes rubbish) attempts to find humour in what I have done over the last 7 months really doesn't seem fitting here at the moment.

I just read a post from SFT that was titled 'Why can't we all just get along" usually I fin… Continue

At a family party at the weekend my 8 year old nephew Jack asked: "Why don't you and Uncle Paul have any children, you have a playstation and enough room. Doesn't Uncle Paul know how to do it?"

After choking on my glass of wine I managed to keep a straight face and gave him some spiel about him, his brother, sister and cousin being a handful enough for us - and if we had our own we wouldn't have as much time to spend with them.

He didn't buy it.

He thought for a minute th

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My friend David has finally got his hands on a new top secret prototype iPhone.

It comes with 80gb capacity, an 8megapixel camera, built in sat nav, karaoke system and innovative handsfree solution.

I probably shouldnt be showing it to you, but here is a picture:

(lazily cut and pasted from another blog, but hey we have a plane to catch)

IPods, spare knickers and passports are packed so we're off on our trip to New York, San Francisco, LA and Las Vegas (with plenty of places in between).

We will probably blog once or twice and add some photos while away. We promised a few people we would just so they know we are alive and kicking.

See some of you in November for fun and frivolity (you know where, you know when, you k

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Thought I would give you what I hope you will find useful advice based on things I have discovered in the last month or so:

1 A bowl of olives and red wine is not a nutritious dinner

2 It's not a good idea to drive in the sun with the car roof off without protection. It gives you sun burn, which is bad enough, but you also get a fetching white strip where the seat belt was

3 Showing off and eating whole chillis in an Indian resturant might seem big and clever at the time

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