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  • Oh no it isn’t!

    Happy Christmas From Steve Bowbrick! — .Have a great new year, stay in touch and do let me know what you’re up to.

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  • Readership in need of renewal

    Peter Preston highlights the effects on newspaper publishing of the UK’s falling birthrate and aging population.

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  • Joe Strummer

    I’m certain we’ll see better obituaries for Joe Strummer from some of the great writers of that period (many of whom are presumably now drowning their sorrows) but, in the…

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  • Intoxicated

    I make no apology for the fact that this weblog has taken a domestic turn lately. It’s Xmas. The pleasure of watching the faces of our three and four-and-a-half year-olds…

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  • How do they do that?

    This £9.95 toy records twenty second sound clips and incorporates them into its programme of lights and sirens and racing around. Oliver, aged four, takes this entirely for granted, of…

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  • Tily in the gloom

    The questionable low-light capabilities of this Ericsson cam-phone (have you wondered why the TV ads all seem to be set in the Sahara or Southern California in high summer?) and…

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  • Time for a photolog

    I will use these instructions to create a photolog using MT in five steps when I get around to it. I will. I will. I will.

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  • Matt’s meme for Christmas Number 1

    Partly to celebrate Matt’s meme and partly to test Ben’s ‘More Like This from Others’ thingie, Im blogging Ben’s link to The New York Times‘ Ideas of the Year. Do…

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  • King of the fishes

    Olly, our four year-old, is on his way home dressed as a fish after his impeccably multi-cultural, non-denominational Xmas concert yesterday.

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