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    Writing is how I relax from everyday stresses and pressures of life. I find it very therapeutic and energising. Very often, the value of the writing activity is the activity itself, rather than the output. Most of what I write therefore, gets quietly pushed aside, buried under a mound of paper, filed in an electronic folder forever...
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    I Should Have Known Better…Five

    Saturday night in a university students’ house anywhere in the world is likely to bring a random group of young people together for booze and debauchery mixed with loud music and junk food. My housemate and I had been to…

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    I Should Have Known Better…Four

    Crossing the border over the River Jordan, after clearing the Israeli checkpoint, I and six other travelers took a seven-seater public taxi to Amman.  After loading our luggage in the boot and on the roof of the car, I found…

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    I Should Have Known Better…Two

    After eating a hearty in-flight lunch, washed down with a couple of alcoholic drinks, trans-Atlantic flights are bound to make you tired and sleepy so, you fall asleep.  Airplane seats are designed to maximise the number of passengers that can…

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    I Should Have Known Better

    A beautiful but sad song by the late Jim Diamond goes like this: And I should have known better To lie to one as beautiful as you Yeah, I should have known better To take a chance on ever losing…

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    Things I Suck At, Part Final

    I am very good at forgetting, and as I get older, I am getting better at it by the day; but that’s probably something to worry about in another blog.  I am also very good at forgiving, especially when it…

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    Things I Suck At, Part Twelve

    Losing is for losers!  That’s the way I see it.  Although I spent the majority of my life in the UK, I never subscribed to the British philosophy of: It’s not the winning that matters; it’s the taking part. I think…

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    Things I Suck At, Part Eleven

    First year at university, the curriculum required students to take an elective subject outside of the discipline we were studying. As my degree was in Aeronautical Engineering, I had a vast choice of subjects to elect from such as sociology, music,…

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    Things I Suck At, Part Ten

    Socialising, what’s that all about?  I understand the purpose of it but I don’t get the benefit. My guess is that it was invented thousands of years ago by women.  Why do I think this? Firstly, and generally speaking, women are…

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