I haven’t done a Sunday Morning Uketube post in ages, but I came across this the other day and couldn’t resist as it combines my three loves of ukulele’s, Charlie Brooker (it’s an exert from his show Gameswipe), and attractive kooky geeky girls. Ladies and Gentlemen, I present Rebecca Mayes…

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Amy and I are currently making our way through J.R.R. Tolkien’s wonderful book Letters From Father Christmas. It’s an anthology of letters and drawings Tolkien wrote to his own children (in the guise of Santa), and it’s beautiful, heartwarming, and I can’t recommend it enough. And I’m not even getting…

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So I’ve got a few more broadly charity related things to get out of the way, and then I’ll stop talking about it for a while I promise. First of all, remember this guy? It’s Lee Sergeant from Quit Your Day Job, the chap who’s growing a Magnum P.I. style…

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Our 84 mile sponsored walk of Hadrian’s wall is looming ever closer. Seven months and twelve days close to be precise. I’ve started to cast my net around for some corporate sponsorship and the wonderful people at Qtag.com have been the first to step up to the plate with an…

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We bought Amy a Nintendo DS for her birthday. It’s all part of our grand strategy to stop all conflict within our family. The theory is that if we all focused on individual hand held gadgets rather than each other and reduce all interaction to unintelligible grunts then there will…

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Value added tax (or VAT) is a tax set by the UK government on the vast majority of purchases. It’s a bit like the American sales tax, apart from some subtle differences which I really don’t want to get into in case my brain implodes. VAT is currently set at…

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Remember when I ranted about how much I dislike the horsey set? And here when I complained about the unstoppable and all pervasive Hannah Montana merchandising machine and it’s effect on my daughter? Well look what I just went out and spent thirty quid on: Thirty quid! For a couple…

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I read two types of blogs. The first type are blogs written by people that I like. These are bloggers with whom I feel I have developed (or am developing) a relationship. I am interested in what they say and the way that they say it. They comment on my…

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I am man who likes to live life on the edge. I pick up and eat food I’ve dropped on the floor, I walk around with my shoelaces undone, and I even agree to go on hiking holidays with random weirdos I’ve met on the internet. If my middle name…

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