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Friday Links

Posted on April 10, 2015 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday!  It’s been a busy four day week for me and today all I have to do is some post meeting tasks and minutes (I hate writing minutes and now I have to do it every month – I’m … Continue reading →

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High Society at the Old Vic

Posted on April 8, 2015 by nicdempsey

I haven’t been to a lot of theatre this year. It’s expensive and I don’t have a lot of money. But we are going to see High Society in August. I was umming and ahhing about it. High Society is a … Continue reading →

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Life Happened – Bank Holidays, Birthdays and Easter

Posted on April 6, 2015 by nicdempsey

Time for the weekly review and normally I’d be writing this on Sunday night but not today because today  is a Bank Holiday and I’m not at work. Or doing anything at all. Last weekend, I was complaining to Ma … Continue reading →

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Sunday Music

Posted on April 5, 2015 by nicdempsey

Easter. Jesus is Risen. So Handel Hallelujah Chorus.

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Friday Links

Posted on April 3, 2015 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! Today is Good Friday and a Bank Holiday for UK. Today, Ma and I are planning on getting along to the Wellington thing at the National Portrait Gallery and not going to Church (sorry Jesus!). Right let’s get … Continue reading →

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Lemon Curd

Posted on April 2, 2015 by nicdempsey

Making jam can be hard work, usually when the fruit I want to turn into jam is ripe, it’s hot, then there’s the boiling sugar and the sterilizing jars and cutting up circles of greaseproof paper. I am so glad I … Continue reading →

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What I’ve Read – March 2015

Posted on April 1, 2015 by nicdempsey

Light Boxes – Shane Jones (Library book) February is persecuting the townspeople. It has been winter for more than three hundred days. All forms of flight are banned and the children have started to disappear, taken from their beds in the … Continue reading →

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Reasons to be Cheerful – March 2015

Posted on March 31, 2015 by nicdempsey

Reasons to be Cheerful and/or Thankful posts are something I usually do to remember that life isn’t all doom and gloom, which is why they featured so prominently when I was unemployed and in November and the run up to Christmas when … Continue reading →

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Life Happened – Migraines and Rainy Sundays

Posted on March 30, 2015 by nicdempsey

Last week was actually a quiet week personally but a busy week at work. I had a migraine on Tuesday, which was not fun. I’m doing all the stuff the doctor says to try and some months it feels like … Continue reading →

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Sunday Music

Posted on March 29, 2015 by nicdempsey

Ma and I had a disagreement this weekend about the quality of the music she grew up with in the 60’s and the music I like. We have agreed to disagree but she’s wrong. She doesn’t really like this song … Continue reading →

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