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Who's reading your private messages?
Yesterday I received an email from GotJuice.com, an ‘online reputation management consultancy’ (Jeez, now there’s a hole in the market that was ripe for plugging). It said this: “Facebook Users...
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Blissful beauty in Bampton
So the phone rang and, to my utter amazement, I picked it up.‘Hello.’‘Hello, stranger.’My friend Nicky. My cohort in extreme exercise crime. Except since cracking myself on the nose I haven’t seen her...
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You have the right to remain silent...
So the SP and I were walking in the woods, the way we do. And the leaves are turning now, starting to sigh into Autumn. They’re not quite falling…except for those which seem to want to immolate...
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Never detox with a lover...
Right. If you’re gonna go somewhere to detox, go alone. Seriously. I often think, when I go away and stay solo in these lovely hotels with fabulous rooms and ginormous beds that it’s all a…bit of a...
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What's the etiquette on having a crap in front of someone?
I don’t like colonics. Never have. Took my first one purely in the name of research because I figured I couldn’t slate something I’d never tried. ‘You’ll love it,’ said my pal Sam. ‘You’ll feel great...
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So so so...
You have to laugh right? I go to Italy to become all cleansed and pure and I find myself mired in shit. Again. I should have known. Everything moves in cycles and I had been feeling buoyant for quite...
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No more shit...
Life really does delight in biting you in the bum sometimes. So be careful. Don’t tempt fate. JYou know how the other day I was saying that you really should never ever ever share a bathroom when...
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DIY detox
So. Since I’m no longer going on detox at Anamchara I figured I’d just do it myself at home. Because, really, it’s not as if there’s any great mystique behind the process and, now I come to think of...
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Boden...WTF?
So I’m browsing through Facebook and see a plaintive cry from the lovely Fiona. Nice brogues...‘What's going on?’ she asked. ‘I usually throw the Boden catalogue straight into recycling but in today's...
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Back off, pushy sport parents
On the news this morning they were talking about how parents have been banned from children’s school football matches. And, you know what? I’m not surprised. When James used to play football (not at...
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"At any one time there are only seven great dogs"
‘Have you got Game of Thrones on DVD?’ I asked Rachel. She shook her head. ‘Can’t you watch it on Sky?’‘We haven’t got Sky.’ She shook her head again, this time in wonderment. ‘Everyone’s got Sky....
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Shyman saves the world...
Jakey (aka Si Jakeman, aka Shyman) is another great guy I met on Twitter. Probably via Hen, if I recall. We don’t chat a lot but we have the odd exchange on shamanism, on dreams, on the earth, on...
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Lost weekends and the Hedgerows Heaped with May
Weird old weekend, spent mainly in the past. As anyone who knows me on Facebook will have realized, I finally got a scanner and indulged in a totally over-the-top nostalgia fest. Pictures spanning a...
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Free quasi crisps up for grabs...
As you know, I get sent stuff from time to time… with the hope I’ll review it on the blog or in print. The stuff is often weird, generally wildly random and, to be honest, I don’t inflict most of it...
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Life from the padded cell of BBC Somerset
So, I spent the vast majority of yesterday stuck in a cell at the BBC. Doing a shedload of publicity for my new book, Kind Regards – the Lost Art of Letter Writing (Michael O’Mara Press). This is not...
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In which I get overexcited about a scourer
While Adrian was away (Belgium this time, on some beer judging panel) it seemed like the doorbell was ringing every two minutes (okay, slight exaggeration but still) and there would be some poor...
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Paul Freeman talks magic and myth
Yeah, he's a grumpy git. :-) Today I’m handing over the blog to Paul Freeman. Paul’s a good guy, a seriously good guy, and he writes good books. I always say I don’t really *do* fantasy, yet I’ve...
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The List of Banned Words
The NY Times has a shorter list. So, I was sitting in Adrian’s office waiting to talk to BBC Hereford & Worcester about letter-writing. Why wasn’t I in my own office? Cos I don’t have a phone in...
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One part Silence of the Lambs, two parts Natural Born Killers, and one part...
I met Mr Gerald D. Johnston on the HarperCollins website Authonomy. I read the opening of his book, Dropcloth Angelsand absolutely hated his guts. Cos the guy can write so bloody well, it’s criminal....
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