Brought to you by the letter P

Here’s a meme from DarcsFalcon. Leave a comment and get a letter assigned to you.  You then must come up with 10 things you love that begin with that letter.  I was given the letter P and I spent the journey home in the sleet (can you believe it snowed today???) thinking of things! So here [...]

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Expect the unexpected?

Everywhere I turn at the moment I seem to come across Oxford University, my alma mater. In the past couple of weeks I’ve downloaded umpteen Oxford podcasts from iTunes (very interesting), watched the bearable film The Oxford Murders (not so interesting), received my college magazine (interesting for the fact that my name and Tony Blair’s are listed on the [...]

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Two good websites!

I feel it is my duty to share with you two great websites that I have found – one of which will solve every Christmas present buying problem you could ever have, while the other will tell you more about the history, heritage and ongoing conservation of my hometown Newcastle-under-Lyme. The first is http://www.notonthehighstreet.com, an [...]

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The true meaning of Christmas – video competition

A friend of mine has entered a competition called The True Meaning of Christmas, where entrants have to submit a one-minute film on the subject – and it can be a play, song, poem, story or anything else! – for a chance to win up to £3,000 for their church. Please watch his video Newness of [...]

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Not the only one

Sometimes it helps to know that not only are many other people in the same boat, but in fact not even an ocean liner could fit them all in. I’d just finished buying a lot of Christmas cards and other goodies from the Epilepsy Action website (I’m feeling pretty festive at the moment and have been [...]

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