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Shanks' Pony

Wed, 08 Aug 2018 12:26:30 GMT

So it's a two-hour walk from Banbury to Cropredy along the towpath, including a fifteen-minute sandwich break. Leaving Banbury, I startled a grass snake and it swam off across the canal. Later there was a banded demoiselle in and out of the undergrowth.

Also passed, and was later caught up by, a narrowboat called Edinburgh Castle.

Nice day for it. I didn't really know how this was going to go, especially having done something odd to my heels a couple of evenings ago,but it was entirely trouble-free.

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Pretty please with jam and cream and cherries

Tue, 07 Aug 2018 22:38:35 GMT

So as you'll have noticed, I'm in that there London, although I'm off to a field near Cropredy in the morning. I'll be back on Sunday, though, for a week. If either of the people reading fancy meeting up at any point, let me know. It'd be nice for me, and hopefully at least tolerable for you.

Also, I'm enjoying Kermode's series on cinema. It would be nice if the website had a list of the films he talks about. I haven't seen loads of them, and many look very interesting and fun indeed.

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Context is for the weak

Tue, 07 Aug 2018 16:52:57 GMT

I hadn't actually had the email confirmation of the insurance change, but they'd refunded me my pound so I guess the transaction had gone through. I picked various Saunderses up across south and west Edinburgh and had a fairly uneventful trip down to Blackpool. Usual parking space, usual accommodation, usual chips.

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The train down was busy, but comfortable. There was a woman who looked like she had a goitre in the end vestibule at one point, and another who I'm guessing was a buddhist nun, in a red-with-some-yellow garment in (I think) the Tibetan style. CJ's friend Viking was somewhere further down the train. I said hello when we passed each other at Euston, where there was faff as I pulled the first blue thing I saw out of my wallet to find that it was my bank card rather than that Lobster thing they all use.

My sister's cat is a bit bigger but still quite odd. Spending most of her time outside, doubtless in the hope of mugging the local wildlife.

Further note: everybody thinks Geldof's a nob.

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2 albums of a projected 10

Wed, 30 May 2018 10:21:24 GMT

Thank you Graham H - number one of theoretically ten. Blah blah record cover, blah don't have to explain (as if you're getting away that easily) blah.

( Sex Pistols mini-album and Laibach's Slovenska Akropola )

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Softsouthernunderbellyshire

Wed, 04 Apr 2018 22:50:18 GMT

I'm in that there London until the 16th. Just so you know.

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I really must try and say something here more often.

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 11:22:11 GMT

Not that I have much to say, of course.

Tell you what, I'll work on it. How are you? Having a nice day?

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Bless me Dreamwidth, for I have sinned.

Sat, 17 Mar 2018 16:44:46 GMT

It has been 341 days since may last confession.

Which is about it, really. Pretty quiet nearly-year.

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Hello Dreamworld

Mon, 10 Apr 2017 09:09:27 GMT

Current time to import a journal and comments: two and a half days. Still, it's done now. One small step for a journal, one giant leap for journalkind.

It's sunny here, and no more people are dying horribly than is usual for the time of year.

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