Perhaps there comes a time in every bloggers life where she needs to sit back and have a long, hard think about what she is writing and who she is writing for. I know I reached that point this past week.
I’ve said before that I don’t care about my audience, that I write for me [...]

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I always used to be behind the curve with things. I never got things “first”. I put this down to not being one of the cool kids in school but, frankly, I never really gave a flying teaspoon for most things that were classed as cool. Still, it would have been nice to know things [...]

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OK, you’re not going to understand this, but it is so amazing I have to share -
I’ve got the Miffy Flick back!
The school I used to go to (Millfield) was full of very rich and very beautiful people (I was there on a scholarship and was an aberration). Now the default hairstyle for the [...]

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I love that moment in writing when the ideas are buzzing round your brain just before you put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard).
The concepts and thoughts are just there, at the edge of your grasp, but they need those extra few moments before they crystalize into a coherent whole.
It’s the potential of the [...]

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No, not really, but the other night in one of my dreams he was. I don’t know why I am so sure he was God, but God he was. Not even the god I worship either, but there in my dream, a big bearded chap, with open-toed sandals and socks, a tweed jacket with leather [...]

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Why are we so willing to accept the status quo?
Time for a little background:
At work, we are technically a hot desking office. We have to be – there are ten people and only eight computers, so we rotate tasks between us. Practically, however, there are three of us who always tend to use the same [...]

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I’m asked time and again why I blog and what Bright Meadow is for - here I try and answer those questions.

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If a paperclip is a “trombone” in French, what is a trombone?
(Staring at a box of paperclips all day in the office. Sorry.)

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A few questions about ‘About’ pages and their function with regard blogs.

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Why is Firefox determined to open on my right screen (the 12″ PowerBook screen), and not the left screen (the 15″ LCD)? It used to remember that I liked it open full screen on the left. The last couple of days however, it’s been determined to open on the right. Grrr. Bloody firefox.

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