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Too much fun, not enough sleep

My friend came over from El Hierro for the weekend. So I got my long translation job done last week, tidied up the guest room, and did some cooking in advance. She arrived Saturday lunchtime, and the fun started. We got home at about 1:30 am and carried on drinking. It must have been around that time that I said, “You think you’re weird? One of my best friends is…

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Whoops!

Yesterday this blog went off the air for a couple of hours. No, it wasn’t Halloween gremlins – I ran out of bandwidth because so many of you have been reading it. What a very nice problem to have. Thank you! I talked to my hosting service, Helresa.com, and they upgraded their SoHo pack to have extra bandwidth, and extra disk space. (All those photos have to be stored somewhere.)…

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Monsters in the street

My son went round to a friend’s house to play. When I went to collect him, the friend’s little brother, aged three, told me it wasn’t safe to leave because there was a monster in the street. So he went first with his ray gun and killed the monster for us. You forget these things so quickly. It’s nine years since my own son was killing monsters.

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