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Offspring 3-2 Parents

For once, I have something more significant to report than the usual claptrap. Significant in this household, anyway, if not to anyone else. For those who haven’t already guessed (and didn’t read the title), Sarah is pregnant with our third … Continue reading

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Following The Pied Piper To Ireland

There aren’t many bands left that I’d travel to see perform live; even fewer that I’d cross borders to see. Back in April 2005, while we were still living in California, I flew to London for two days, leaving a … Continue reading

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American War Crime Documented

WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video that depicts the indiscriminate slaying of more than dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad. The victims include two Reuters journalists. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday, Lucas

How time flies. That’s not the first time I’ve bandied the cliché about on these pages and it undoubtedly won’t be the last, but that’s due as much to the essential truth of the maxim as it is my lazy … Continue reading

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Blogging Wife

By the way, I hope you’ve all noticed that Sarah has started blogging. I had thought she would probably give it up again after returning from holiday, but no-one was more pleasantly surprised than me the other day when she … Continue reading

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