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At last a good meme! By gum, it's been a while.
FOUR NAMES YOU GO BY ( Read more... ) -
Aaaaaand breathe.
It's been an eventful month or so, or at least it certainly feels like it's been a busy one.
I was marking for Edexcel for the first part of the month, and I have now been paid for that work, even though I now need to write a snotty letter to the Inland Revenue to claim back the tax. It was an interesting experience, although maybe not one that I ( Read more... ) -
Married updateage
Still coming down from the whole thing really ( Read more... ) -
On participating in online fora
(Or forums, if you prefer. Ugh ( Read more... ) -
memeage
WORLD BOOK DAY MEME ( Read more... ) -
Flawed experiments
Programmes like The Big Fat Truth About Low Fat Foods really annoy me because they are so flawed. Surely it should be obvious that going onto a "low fat" diet of diet ready-meals and snacks is going to make you feel worse than going onto a proper low-fat diet with lots of fruit and veg? And surely if you ever read the news you would know that ( Read more... ) -
History
In spite of an A Level in History and being a regular reader of The Economist, it is becoming increasingly obvious to me just how damn blinkered I am about the subject ( Read more... ) -
Happy New Year, one and all
(Funnily enough, when I first typed that, all that appeared in the subject bar was 'ew'. Which, considering the state of my cold and how some of the little ratbags that I teach make me feel some days, is probably fairly accurate as well ( Read more... )