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Night out

The weekend had looked fairly promising from a distance. My partner and I were at last going to go out and spend the Pizza Express voucher we had been given…

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A partridge in a pear tree

It's the week before the whole December thing and already you can feel the hysteria levels rising in our house. It doesn't help that One Direction have chosen this particular…

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Making a career as a writer: admiration feeding ambition

Ever since I was a small child I have wanted to be a writer.

I used to daydream about being Enid Blyton or Roald Dahl.  Sometimes I would want to…

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Strike while the iron's hot

Strike while the iron's hot

With me working away from home until Christmas, the wife is facing a daily battle to get through the first term of her photography degree.

Her talent for it…

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Youth enterprise

I have been thinking about The Future of late what with all the talk of the impending lost decade. What if there are still no jobs around for young people…

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