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Walking Hadrian’s Wall 2011 – Day Seven: Lanercost to Carlisle
Steps: 31,453 Distance: 18.86 km Given the succession of easy days, we expected Day Seven to be a little more hard going but leaving Abbey Mill behind us, we soon found ourselves making rapid progress...
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Walking Hadrian’s Wall 2011 – Day Eight: Carlisle to Bowness-on-Solway
Steps: 35,550 Distance: 21.33 km Even with hindsight, the walk out of Carlisle remains the low-point of the holiday. Insufficiently caffeinated, under-rested and struggling to digest an almost...
View ArticleYou and Your Entire Family Are Full of Shit. You’re Welcome.
Things are a little slow at the moment. One reason for this is that I’ve decided to work on a slightly longer project that really can’t be placed online until it’s properly finished. Another reason...
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It’s (Probably) Okay Not To Have Any Ambition
0. Oh Shit I recently wrote about the difficulties I have relating to groups. As a not particularly well-socialised human being who spends an inordinate amount of time in his head, I frequently see...
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A post-DVD Future for DVD Labels?
There is no mistaking the air of panic surrounding DVD retail in the UK at the moment. Second hand DVD prices are dropping at both Amazon and CeX while the time between a DVD retailing at full RRP and...
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Why Do People Buy Books They Don’t Read?
0. TBR! TBR! Regardless of whether your passion is for books, films, games or comics, the chances are that your home contains a large stockpile of unconsumed culture. Depending upon the exact nature of...
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Why You Want to Fuck Christopher Hitchens – Celebrity, Consumerism and the...
I’d like to open with a kind of history. This history takes many forms and surfaces in many different places with the names of the actors sometimes replaced. Occasionally, the role of the...
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Don’t Let Pop Culture Tell You Who You Are
Frequent visitors to this blog will by now have realised that both the form and frequency of my posting is subject to a good deal of fluctuation. Sometimes I crank out sizeable pieces on a regular...
View ArticleMaureen
Maureen died a little while ago and her funeral was yesterday but it’s taken me a while to pull together my thoughts. I felt it appropriate to post this here as my friendship with Maureen was born of...
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Release of A Traveller in Time – The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid...
I have, in my sweaty little palms, my contributor copy of A Traveller in Time – The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller, edited by Nina Allan. The book is officially launching on the 12th of...
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