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Snowed off

2008-04-06T13:27:32Z

Opened the window this morning to see two inches of snow on the ground - and more falling. Was heading for the ferry to go to the Hawk girls' game at Newbury when the phone call came from Lisa to say it was off - the pitch was under six inches of ...

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Welcome back, Doctor

2008-04-05T18:55:12Z

Went over to Westleigh Park early to catch the Portsmouth v West Brom semi-final on the telly. Again there was no cooked grub on offer as the cooks were tied up with the corporate hospitality next door, so made do with a Peperami to accompany my f...

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Mr Lonely

2008-04-04T20:15:27Z

More crap. Row with me ma this morning. Bad-tempered bloke on the phones just after 1pm who gave me a bad time and in the end announced that he wasn't going to take part any more and hung up. Can't go round Katherine's as she's got a cold. I need...

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Funny how your favourite never wins

2008-04-03T22:04:32Z

Not a good shift. I was already feeling stressed as a dear friend and I have had a disagreement and I haven't heard from her since, and then last night while watching The Prisoner on ITV4 I managed to waste most of a big bottle of Hoegaarden by kn...

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Her finger sadly

2008-04-02T15:14:45Z

Alan is Carole's husband. I guess I'd already given up hope anyway.

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Almost there

2008-04-01T21:03:17Z

Only the Using IT module, an overview of everything we've already done, left to do on my ECDL now. Read the last chapter of the textbook for the first half-hour of class, then Pathenia came over and asked for my memory stick. She loaded a lot of m...

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All change

2008-03-31T21:12:41Z

Today was the start of the dreaded April-June quarter, in which we have to ask additional questions in the survey, putting a few extra minutes on each person's interview. The plus side is that the longer interviews make the shift go quicker; the m...

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Match of the season

2008-03-30T19:18:11Z

An early start this morning - well, setting off from home at 7.45 am is early on a Sunday, especially when the clocks have just gone forward - for the girls' away game with Reading Reserves, which was being played in the Oxfordshire village of Woo...

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Wot no bacon butties?

2008-03-29T22:31:35Z

I tossed up all morning between Fareham Town v Wimborne Town and Moneyfields v Alton Town, but finally opted for Moneyfields. As I walked up from the Hard to Portsmouth city centre through the wind and rain to catch my bus, I reflected on how I co...

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Kat

2008-03-28T23:22:03Z

To the Windsor Castle this evening to see Kat Perrio. I'd first seen this talented young local chanteuse towards the end of my mother's deputy-mayoral year when she performed at a civic function, but through a combination of skintness and clashes ...

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