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Excuse me, Miss

May 11, 2012 – 6:09 pm

Waiting at the bus stop after a long day when this guy in his early twenties who had already been waiting there asked me the strangest question I had heard for half an hour* and the following conversation ensued: “Excuse me, Miss, this is going to sound like a weird question, but do you happen [...]

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Blogpost procrastination

May 8, 2012 – 11:47 pm

I got on track with my level of organisation and then it slipped again. I’ve noticed that particularly the past three weeks I’ve been playing catch up every day. I can’t find things I know I’ve bought and many of the systems I’ve put in place seem to not be working any more. One reason [...]

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To course or not to course

May 3, 2012 – 1:12 am

Whilst the reason I first moved back to the UK in 2003 was to do a one year humanities Access to Higher Education course, I never really considered studying. Sure, I had some ideas and for a while played around with maybe doing a languages degree or something like international studies yet I knew that [...]

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Writing blogposts and taking pictures

May 1, 2012 – 11:52 pm

At the beginning of the year I had this idea of writing a blogpost every day this year. I didn’t mention this publicly or make a big deal out of it as I was doing it to see if I could challenge myself without having too much pressure from others. After all, my previous three [...]

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Too many languages..

April 30, 2012 – 11:06 pm

..yet it’s only two! My inability to speak German has found its way into several blogposts before with the most notable one being this one. Things have somewhat changed since then. A couple of months ago I started a new job in marketing which required me to only speak English with the very occasional checks [...]

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Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3 completed

April 29, 2012 – 4:47 pm

I recently completed Mass Effect 2 and then straightaway played Mass Effect 3. In fact, Mass Effect 3 and my worry about being unable to avoid spoilers for any longer were the reasons I decided to buy a new 360 back in February and I am still surprised I managed to avoid spoilers for this [...]

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“This is my opening negotiating position” – L.A. Noire review

April 27, 2012 – 3:21 pm

I recently completed L.A. Noire. The game had been on my radar since it was first announced, but a lack of console and/or time made that difficult up until recently. The game starts off really well. All the initial cases are well done and feature just as much slick yet tawdriness as to be expected [...]

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Splinter Cell Conviction was a bad purchase

April 26, 2012 – 11:36 am

I bought Splinter Cell Conviction as I felt that, as a Splinter Cell fan, I really should play it. Two levels in and I am incredibly angry at the game, the developers and mourning the loss of a fantastic series. I should have listened to myself.

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The lack of choice in gaming

April 24, 2012 – 3:00 pm

Choices feature more or less in some games. There are games that are truly linear offering no choices [such as the excellent Beyond Good & Evil], games that offer some choices [such as BioShock with the little sisters which affected the finale] and games that are all about choices [such as the Mass Effect trilogy]. [...]

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Telephone Preference Service (TPS)

April 12, 2012 – 8:15 pm

This year the amount of cold calls on our landline became unmanageable. There were at least five PPI calls a day, as well as others promising holidays or other things. None of them were actually made by real people and pressing whichever number to unsubscribe never worked. It’s not even like we gave out the [...]

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Gaming weekend

April 10, 2012 – 6:09 am

As I am on my way to work after a four-day blissful Easter weekend I’m torn between the guilt of not doing anything constructive that I planned and remembering the fun I had playing games for most of my waking hours. On Friday I spent close to 12 hours playing LA Noire, most of this [...]

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“London smells like my grandma”

April 4, 2012 – 10:13 pm

Tonight I saw ‘The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists’ at the cinema. The film probably would have passed me by had it not been for a friend and mine’s decision to go to a cinema, as well as the process of elimination of all the other terrible films that are out. Pirates! was fun [...]

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The Oxford Philomusica [again!]

March 31, 2012 – 9:40 pm

Last night I went to see the Oxford Philomusica at the Reading Concert Hall again. I’d seen them twice before, but this was by far their best one. They played: Prokofiev – Classical Symphony Saint-Saëns – Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33 Casals – Song of the Birds [encore for Natalie Clein] [...]

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Romeo and Juliet: Live from The Royal Opera House

March 25, 2012 – 3:24 pm

On Thursday I went to see Romeo and Juliet: Live from The Royal Opera House at the cinema. Like many people I have discovered Prokofiev through The Apprentice, where it is used as the theme music and, liking it a lot, have listened to the rest several times since. Spotify link. Wikipedia Link. I think [...]

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Broken Kindle!

March 21, 2012 – 4:08 am

A post describing the amazing experience of my Kindle is long overdue. After all it got me back to reading and I have read the following books since receiving it on the beginning of this year: The Sleepless Nanny by Christa Charter The English German Girl by Jack Wallis Simons Seven Agatha Raisin books that I [...]

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Crime writing workshop

March 15, 2012 – 7:14 pm

Last night I went to a crime writing workshop hosted by the Reading library: Reading Library presents a unique opportunity to take part in a Crime Writing workshop with popular authors Danny Miller and Emlyn Rees. Debut novelist Danny Miller [@dannymillerkmq] is author of noir thriller Kiss Me Quick. He is also a playwright and [...]

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#Doodleblanket progress

March 10, 2012 – 10:13 pm

I dug out the #doodleblanket on Friday after having the urge to continue it and decided to see it in all its glory on Saturday. I reckon it is about 55% at this point and it’s massive!

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Website restructure

March 9, 2012 – 10:36 pm

I never talk about work on this blog, because it is mostly boring or covered by NDAs. For the past few months I’ve been doing various bits and pieces freelance based, but nothing has been anything major or anything that would grab my attention for longer than a day or two at the most. Over [...]

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