As part of our recent trip down to London we went out for lunch with my old friend Rob and his wife and child. You may remember Rob from such exploits as him ironing his underpants, being a amateur football referee, appearing on TV quiz show Countdown, and having me…

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As much as I’d love to be able to portray myself as some kind of Tom Good, forsaking the trappings of capitalistic society in order to grow veg and keeping chickens, it just isn’t true. I’m as much as a consumer whore as the next man. Sure I’m pretty frugal…

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My chickens are currently laying about four eggs a day, which is more than enough to feed my two a day habit. Unfortunately I’m pretty much alone in my egg scoffing here at Hughes Towers. The kids don’t really like them and Kerry, being the picky vegetarian that she is,…

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I’ve lived in Huddersfield for 33 years, on and off. Yet in all that time I’ve never been to the top of it’s most famous landmark – Victoria Tower up on Castle Hill. The Tower is pretty insignificant historically, being built as recently as 1899 as a monument to Queen…

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I broke a personal rule yesterday and wrote a post vaguely connected with what I do for a living. I’ve broken it before, most blatantly in one of the best and most personal posts I’ve ever written. It was all about my difficulty in keeping a grip on my emotions…

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I’m guest posting over at the collaborative fatherhood blog, DadCentric today. Why don’t you head on over and take a look. Bookmark It

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The British National Health Service has it’s faults. In fact it has a lot of faults, many of which I could point out in very explicit job-loosingly detail. But I honestly believe that it’s very heart it is a wonderful ideal being executed by people positively trying to do a…

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Here’s how it works. I’ve taken a short film synopsis from imdb.com and fed it into Bable Fish, an online translating service. I then translated the synopsis from English into Greek, and then from Greek back into English. The resulting gobbledygook is posted below. Your task is to try and…

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If you are reading this then you are a geek. I’m sorry, but you are. Let’s look at the facts – you’re reading a blog for a start off. What’s more the odds are that you even have a blog of your own. And you’re on twitter aren’t you. Admit…

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On Sunday Ian from SingleParentDad and his son Max managed to squeeze us into their meticulously planed summer holiday schedule and came up to stay with us for the night. Fun and hi-jinks were had all round. There was manufacturing of bouncy balls, exploring of abandoned quarries, eating of messy…

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