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Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Solomonici 8 Nov 2012 | 05:29 pm
I recently re-read Dan Brown’s novels and had actually forgotten how much I enjoyed the Robert Langdon books – the whole cypher solving and religious aspects, the holy grail etc etc. I wanted to read ...
Game, Set & Match 2 Jun 2011 | 08:24 am
99% of the time I have no interest whatsoever in sport. This changes for about two weeks in June, the Wimbledon fortnight and I get very excited indeed about tennis. I’ll have the BBC Sport news feed ...
Happy Easter 25 Apr 2011 | 08:13 am
I was going to write a blog post about the concept of role models, something I’ve thought about for a while but then I looked at the date of my last entry and oh my, it’s been a while, hasn’t it? It’s...
Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book 19 Jan 2011 | 01:56 am
I seem to have a huge pile of books to read gathered on the floor, piles of them in front of my bookcase. I dread to think how many of them there are. A good couple of hundred I’m sure. They’re taunti...
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. 7 Jan 2011 | 03:53 am
Kant said that we require three things by which to measure happiness: someone to love, something we like to do, and something to look forward to. I’m not in a relationship so I don’t love anyone in a...
There’s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. 4 Jan 2011 | 10:49 am
I’ve always described myself as a ‘writer’ but as 2010 rolled into 2011 I’m starting to wonder if that’s really such an accurate description. Surely, in order to be a writer one must actually… write s...
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today 29 Dec 2010 | 11:33 pm
Responsibility is defined by http://dictionary.reference.com as the state or fact of being responsible; an instance of being responsible. To be responsible is defined, again by the same website as an...
The House Rules 15 Dec 2010 | 10:24 am
I’m the first person to tell you that I’m not a huge music fan. I don’t have favourite songs or artists. I don’t listen to music for the sake of listening to music, but I do like to have it on in the ...
Christmas TV 6 Dec 2010 | 02:53 am
In my newspaper today was the Christmas TV listings and there are so many wonderful films that are on this year. There’s the usual Christmas specials of TV shows as well, such as Doctor Who that I’m r...
The difference between try and triumph is a little umph 18 Nov 2010 | 01:59 am
I've never particularly been a very career orientated person. As long as I have a job, I'm able to pay my bills and put some aside into savings and I'm happy then that is all I've ...
