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Slouching towards Thatcham: May 2010
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This blog has moved. Slouching towards Thatcham has moved. Please follow me to my new home at http:/ slouchingtowardsthatcham.wordpress.com/. New posts will no longer appear here. Apple opened its doors for iPad pre-orders in the UK on Monday, promising shipment by May 28th. Fool that I am, I deliberated, cogitated and digested, confirming in my own mind that I really did need - okay, really, really. What's the old saying about "he who hesitates is lost"? Or, at least, majorly incovenienced? Now if you d...
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Slouching towards Thatcham: Swaps!
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In yet another instance of reliving my childhood, I bought a Panini World Cup sticker album. Yesterday - for Heather, not for me, honest! It brought a load of memories from when I was 11 or 12 flooding back. Buying a new pack or two of stickers from the newsagent before school every morning. The excitement of discovering and then carefully attaching a new player neatly into his allotted spot, mixed with the disappointment of finding that you had just got Ray Clemence again. Ah, innocent times. There are ...
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Slouching towards Thatcham: Election night: In the midnight hour
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Election night: In the midnight hour. It's shortly after midnight as I start writing this pseudo-live blog - barely two hours since the polling stations closed - and there are already several major talking points developing as the outcome of the 2010 UK general election slowly unravels. I have no idea how long it will be until I run out of steam (and caffeine) and crawl into bed, but here goes anyway. On the one hand, a load of blood-suckers; on the other, True Blood. Statement by the Electoral Commissio...
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Slouching towards Thatcham: He who hesitates
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Apple opened its doors for iPad pre-orders in the UK on Monday, promising shipment by May 28th. Fool that I am, I deliberated, cogitated and digested, confirming in my own mind that I really did need - okay, really, really. Want - one, and then mulling over Heather's offer to defer purchase until my 40th birthday in September. (I did give that some consideration. Really I did. I even went so far as to agree to wait, although I must admit I was 95% certain she wouldn't take me up on it.). Election 2010: t...
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Slouching towards Thatcham: April 2010
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The last resort (part 1). It would be fair to say that, prior to the birth of our sons Isaac and Toby, Butlins would have been pretty much our last resort in terms of holiday destinations. But, as they say, having children is a life-changing experience, and if there is one thing that demonstrates just how much my life has changed over the past two years, holiday choices are as good a discriminator as any. Pre-kids, Butlins would not have even registered on our radar for manifold reasons, including:.
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Slouching towards Thatcham: Election day
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So, after three live televised debates, thousands of minutes of television coverage, millions of column inches and God knows how much frenetic online chatter, we finally arrive at the day of reckoning. Today is General Election day in the UK. This will be the fifth general election since I became eligible and - due to my mildly nomadic existence with first university and then work - the fourth different constituency I will have voted in. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe to this blog. This bl...
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Slouching towards Thatcham: December 2009
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So, here we are. December 31st, 2009. The last day of the Noughties. In a few hours' time we will say farewell to the old decade and hello to the new one. Instead, today seems not unlike many other days - unexceptional. Cold and grey; a normal working day (for those people not extending their Christmas holidays); a day when ordinary people do ordinary things. On New Year's Eve 1999, Heather and I were living in our first house in Oxford. Ten years on, we have moved twice, first to Lane End, and from ...
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Slouching towards Thatcham: Election night: 1.00-2.00am
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Election night: 1.00-2.00am. Okay, it's 1am and I'm still here (just). Not sure how long it will be before I fall asleep over my keyboard, but anyway . The Tories win their first seat, gaining Kingswood from Labour with a 9.4% swing. Now that's interesting, because it suggests that the prospect of a Conservative majority government remains very much alive. Way too early to tell one way or the other, of course. I suspect the word of the hour will be "bellwether", which is what Kingswood is. Alastair Campb...
