20 April 2013
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This is more interesting than it sounds if you are using the “goes on pink, dries to white” paint I mentioned earlier this month. We have decided that the wallpaper will need a coat of paint to finish it off … Continue reading
19 April 2013
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Today’s new skill is cutting hardboard and laying it on the floorboards in the room we are decorating. If all goes well (and I’m probably about 80% of the way there), tomorrow’s will be laying carpet tiles and, once that … Continue reading
18 April 2013
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After seizing an opportunity to visit the wealth of Oxford Central Library yesterday, I am weighed down with riches. I’m halfway through one of the new books already and just about to dive into selected meditations of Thomas Traherne. “Diving … Continue reading
17 April 2013
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ITV is showing a new series of Endeavour, the story of Dexter’s Inspector Morse as he solves cases in the Oxford of 1965 and lays the foundations of his canonical career. I was impressed when I wrote about the pilot … Continue reading
16 April 2013
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That is probably the last of the wallpaper hung; now we need to leave it until tomorrow evening and make a decision on whether to paint it or leave it as is. It was a paintable paper but we had … Continue reading
15 April 2013
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I am interviewing on Thursday for an IT Officer to join the department. We had a decent batch of applications and have whittled that down to a strong shortlist. I am looking forward to meeting the candidates, any of whom … Continue reading
14 April 2013
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Tonight saw another notch on my “leading evening services” belt and overall I felt it went well. It was an informal service and the congregants I spoke to afterwards seemed to appreciate the spaces left for reflection. I was also … Continue reading
13 April 2013
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Wallpapering has been making me think philosophically. You have to do something when what you hoped would be a simple task looks to be stretching out ahead of you as a consumer of hours and eater of days! I must … Continue reading
12 April 2013
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I remember once reading a comic fantasy novel that was so egregious that the only two things stuck in my mind about it are a ludicrous passage punning on the word catastrophe and that, as far as I can recall, … Continue reading
11 April 2013
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I must not hang around this morning. During the next 45 minutes, I need to finish this blog post, drink up my coffee and be at work ready to get a lift to a meeting down in Newbury. Normally I … Continue reading