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Being on ‘the sick’ is making me sick

Every day that I’m on “the sick” is  extremely stressful. It’s very rare that I don’t need to call up some government department related to the job centre and correct them. This involves playing phone tag with uncaring, bored people in phone centres. I just got off the phone with Atos, the private healthcare company [...]

On Mavernship (part two: The Men from the High Castles)

Part two of some, which seem to be slightly rambly. Oh well. Better out than in. Before I get going here, let’s just take a minute out to think about the image creators of the world. I’m not talking about painters, or any other type of specific mileau, but rather just the general act of [...]

Unnamed Signage

I’ve just finished writing a small program that generates our website banner. I’m not a great programmer, by any means, but I’m pretty proud of this program. It’s been a long evening where I could have blamed my lack of programming skills on a stinking cold and slouched off to bed at any point, but [...]

The Past

So; remember this? Turns out I almost broke my knee over the summer. I was a few degrees off snapping the bone, but I managed to bounce at the right point and ended up with a very long recuperation period. I’ve got a bunch of physio exercises that I need to do every day, which [...]

On Hold

As mentioned below (I think…) I’m in the process of recovering from having a dislocated kneecap. This meant that for about two weeks I could hardly walk, so I holed up at my girlfriends folk’s house with a stack of books from Amazon. Usually, we like to feel that our lives are heading somewhere. Going [...]