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Alllo!

December 27, 2003

Hope you're all enjoying the festive season! Just snatching a moment or two before another influx of relatives. I've eaten way too much food the last few days, in good festive tradition, and fear I may explode if I'm not careful to eat a bit less today. Still producing prodigous amounts of snot, but at […]

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Nadolig Llawen! Happy Christmas!

December 24, 2003

Go stuff yourself with turkey, eggnog and Chrissy pud and have a wonderful Christmas! Captain Sassy Pants (note: not Johnny Depp. Not the last time I looked, anyway.)

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And the snotfest begins

December 23, 2003

My sinuses feel like they've been forcibly rammed full of mucous, which is now exiting my head through my right nostril only, in big green clots. My nose is burning. My head aches. Everytime I swallow my ears go 'clunk' as if bubbles are popping inside my head. Worse than that, everything tastes of snot. […]

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Muji! Muji! Muji! Ra! Ra! Ra!

December 23, 2003

Mum and I ordered some twenty quid's worth of Muji pens online yesterday afternoon. Last night I got an email saying that my order was ready to be despatched. And this morning – contrary to all assumptions about Christmas post being slow – it arrived in a hand-written jiffy bag complete with little sticker stars. […]

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I appear to have a cactus growing in my throat

December 22, 2003

Pass me the weed-killer would you?

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Suddenly remembered celebrity cameo

December 22, 2003

Last night: Quentin Tarantino, sitting in a hairdressers waiting for his appointment. I was asleep in the bed in the waiting room, (fully clothed, though), and when I wake up there he is. He asks me what I do, I mumble something about being a writer and being interested in writing scripts, the hairdresser comes […]

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Happy Winter Solstice!

December 22, 2003

At long last, the shortest day, the beginning of the end of Winter. I look forward to the Winter Solstice every year, to the days starting almost imperceptibly to draw out in the slow run up to Spring. It’s almost like the true new year starts today, rather than hanging about for another week and […]

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Ghosts at Hampton Court Palace?

December 20, 2003

Really? Course the smart thing to do, having caught your ghost on security camera, would be to discretely put some proper cameras up and see if Mr Ghost In Period Dress pops back. Then you could get a better look at him. Or maybe it's just a punter pulling a fast one.

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Cruel weather

December 20, 2003

It's been sunny and dry for most of the week. Today, of course, the day of my friend Sarah's wedding, the weather is foul. We even had a short powercut this morning, which I suspect was caused by water getting in the works somewhere along the line. I'd been hoping it'd clear up by 11am, […]

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50,000!

December 19, 2003

Woo hoo!! I've had 50,000 hits since I started blogging here in May! Ooh, just look at all those naughts! Yay! Go me!! 😀 Ah, if only that were my salary.

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RIAA subpoenas illegal; Kazaa not

December 19, 2003

At long last, there's a bit of balance being restored in the whole music 'piracy' debate. According to the BBC, The RIAA are going to have to think of a different tactic now that Verizon have successfully challenged their subpoenas demanding the names and addresses of Verizon customers. No names and addresses, no charges – […]

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That's a bit harsh, isn't it?

December 19, 2003

I'm no footie fan, but Rio Ferdinand's eight month ban and £50,000 fine seems a bit harsh to me, considering that the anti-doping officials didn't exactly bend over backwards to ensure that the test took place in the first place. Seems that the FA can have fuzzy rules over doping and enforce them however they […]

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Spidey's coming…

December 19, 2003

The Spider-Man 2 trailer is out now, via Yahoo or Sony/Apple – and my, doesn't Doc Ock look kinda cool? I just can't believe that they've started teasing us more than six months before the film actually comes out on 2 July 04. Six months! What am I supposed to do for six months? Watch […]

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Once upon a time in my subconscious

December 19, 2003

Some dreams I’m glad aren’t real. Some dreams I think might make a passable reality – like the dream I had last night where I was studying for an architecture degree after screwing up my first one (in reality, I got a 2:1 from UWCC in Geology, but in my dreams I’ve always failed). I […]

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Liberation!

December 18, 2003

Actually, I've just realised that now The Guardian British Blog Awards are all over, I'm free to write any old crap I fancy! Great! I look forward to sharing with you in detail the trimming of my toenails, scheduled for 8pm tomorrow evening. Come early to ensure a ring-side seat!

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