I don’t know if you will know this feeling, but it struck me tonight. The “getting home at the end of after another blah day at work and realise you are committed to writing a blog post but lack any inspiration or inclination” feeling.
I’ve got that.
So I am sitting at my keyboard, flicking through [...]

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BrightMeadow.co.uk has risen, like a mythic-creature, from the rubble of what turned out to be a hack.
Yes, someone thought that Bright Meadow was worthy of hacking! (For the intrigued, it turns out that this was the problem).
Anyway, thanks to the sheer glory of that marvelous personage known as karmatosed, who spent this morning fingertip deep [...]

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I have been using the Net and screen-reading for many years now and I don’t think I am alone or unusual in this. I have been reading books and physical print media for an awful lot longer. I cannot remember being taught to read, it is just one of those skills I have always seemed [...]

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I am a firm believer that it is personality that is important in this modern age of Web 2.0, distributed communications and mediated, online societies. I have always felt that blogging is about making connections between people. Easier said than done, but possible. The blogs I enjoy reading are the blogs where the authors are [...]

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I was lying on the treatment table yesterday whilst a nice lady called Maya did cruel and unusual things with some thread in order to tame my eyebrows, and it struck me that when I move I’ll be screwed. The problem is not the big things, but rather the little things.
It has taken me four [...]

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Fairly regular Sunday Roasts aside, things have been a little bit on the quiet side of town around about Bright Meadow for a few months now. There was a time you could be almost guaranteed a new post every other day on top of the Sunday serving. I couldn’t speak to the quality of all [...]

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I know I haven’t been updating much lately. Forgive me peeps - I’ve been a bit too busy living life at the moment to write about it. There’s oodles going on, swirling round in my head right now, but I’m afraid it’s the kind of swirly-stuff I have to deal with/live through before I’ll be [...]

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Ok, Birthday Fairycakes really, but the other has such a nice alliterative feel to it.
I’m following the course of action that suggests a way to a mans heart is through his stomach. If the EDLO’s reaction to the cakes is any way to judge, he’s halfway to proposing marriage already, but then are so are [...]

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Not having a voice, even temporarily, is a very strange and eye opening experience. We take our voices for granted and not just for speech. We make countless vocalisations throughout our days to communicate with other people.
From something as simple as an “uh-huh” to show you’re listening to a friend whilst she shares the latest [...]

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Part of the whole “get a job in publishing” plan for 2008 is going to entail moving to a new city because, nice though it is, Southampton is seemingly devoid of decent publishing establishments - go figure. Now, scary “I’m not going to know anyone” relocation issues aside, this is really rather an exciting prospect. [...]

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