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Tuesday, December 26, 2023

The twelve posts of Christmas...day eight. There is no boxing on Boxing Day.

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When I was a lad, I would wonder why Boxing Day was called Boxing Day?  No one in my family had an answer to it.  I came to what I thought w...
Monday, December 25, 2023

The twelve posts of Christmas...day seven. When you get the writing itch, you have to scratch it.

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So, it's Christmas Day, and I'm writing a blog post.  It will just be a quick one today, because if you feel the urge to write, then...
Friday, December 22, 2023

The Twelve Posts of Christmas: Day Six. Working For the Man.

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My first job, other than doing errands and helping out at home for pocket money, was a paper round. That's not me in the picture, but I ...
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

The Twelve Posts of Christmas: Day Five. Marshmallow or Book?

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 A while back, someone posted the image below on Twitter X. It speaks for itself. We live in a world where you can buy a book, new, for a fe...
Tuesday, December 19, 2023

The Twelve Posts of Christmas: Day Four. Andy Pandy is Coming to Play.

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Amazingly, this is my most viewed tweet on Twitter X in 2023 and for a brief period, a few weeks after posting, it was trending.  It has 720...
Saturday, December 16, 2023

The Twelve Posts of Christmas: Day Three. A Billion Kindle Unlimited Reads

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Just to say right at the start of this Christmas post, the billion reads on Kindle Unlimited does not refer to my book. I wish! No, it refer...
Friday, December 15, 2023

The Twelve Posts of Christmas: Day Two. A Load of Rubbish

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Back in the 1960s and 70s, every house in Britain had one (at least) of these.  The tin rubbish bin. This was long before recycling and diff...
Thursday, December 14, 2023

The Twelve Posts of Christmas: A Bit of Television Nostalgia.

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Well, this will be ambitious. I came up with this idea, a blog variation on the twelve days of Christmas, ambitiously called the twelve post...