40 things

I made a list of 40 Things I always wanted to do, and spent a year ticking ’em off.

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40 Things: Item 22 – Volunteer For Something.

It was a weekend in which I entrusted my life to Karma. It was a weekend where I was supposed to be somewhere else, doing something else. And more importantly, it was a weekend in which I finally came to understand that, no matter how good our intentions, we are all the universes playthings. To … Continue reading »

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40 Things: Item 10 – Get a letter printed in 2000ad

This week, I’ve finally done something on the list I’ve always meant to do – get a letter printed in 2000ad comic. 2000ad comic’s been around now for 36 years. I’ve only got vague recollections of discovering it, but I’m fairly sure that I was about 7 or 8 years old and my Auntie Tweeny … Continue reading »

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4 things :Item 23 – Deliver an….

  ….apparently well – informed and lengthy opinion in the local paper on a subject I actually know sod all about. And so the fun began to begin! After I got back from the opera (see item 7), I fired off a quick review to the Lancashire Evening Post, in the obvious hopes of killing … Continue reading »

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40 Things: Item 7- Go To An Opera

So, the first thing I did upon arriving at the theatre was to ask the impeccably dressed doorman as I handed him my ticket stub if I could see the manageress. She came out and we had a brief friendly word before I thanked her, had a picture taken with said doorman, and she went … Continue reading »

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40 Things: Item 24 – Go To Bingo, And Constantly Remind All Concerned It’s My First Time.

The drab monotony of a Wednesday morning is pretty much the same as the drab monotony of any other morning, except that there’s usually a shaft of sunlight poking through in the fact that the weekend’s been sighted off the port bow. Half the week’s work’s about to be behind you, and given that I … Continue reading »

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