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On Hundred and Sixty Eight - art auction
Scammers are everywhere. Today I was contacted by Amazon to ask me did I really want three iphones to be sent to California. Damn - I...

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Jun 13, 2024
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One Hundred and Sixty Seven - gurus
Management gurus who give advice all need an angle to make them stand out from the pack. If you're going to grab the attention of a...

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Jun 12, 2024
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One Hundred and Sixty Six - micro aggression
Being a social media megastar comes with its burdens. The need to keep up the posts. So today I'm diverting from the diet thing to talk...

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Jun 11, 2024
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One Hundred and Sixty Five - over excitement
Haven't talked a lot about dieting recently. Given this is a blog about my diet, I think I should probably rectify that. All the bad...

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Jun 10, 2024
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One Hundred and Sixty Four - the likes
A follow up from yesterday's post on LinkedIn which had more success than I expected. Got double digit thousand views and a load of...

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Jun 9, 2024
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One Hundred and Sixty Three - doom scrolling
LinkedIn really annoys me now. I find myself 'doomscrolling' through the content and then pausing and wondering 'what the hell am I doing...

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Jun 8, 2024
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One Hundred and Sixty Two - no looking
It was on the tube into work yesterday that I noticed a vivid red sign that declared 'don't stare'. Apparently staring at people is now a...

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Jun 7, 2024
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One Hundred and Sixty One - protection
Many years ago I had an idea of writing a book about the probability of meeting someone with a collection of conditions. Say you were in...

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Jun 6, 2024
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One Hundred and Sixty - Belfast
Slowly but surely I'm getting back into the gravy train of air travel. This time at the back of the bus. It's bringing back a lot of...

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Jun 5, 2024
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One Hundred and Fifty Eight - long weekend
Our neighbours who used to live next door to us now live underneath us. More fool them we thought given that Loki on our wooden floor...

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Jun 3, 2024
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One Hundred and Fifty Six - getting home
Getting home from Romania was an ordeal. For some reason we keep organising our lives for the last day of our holidays to be over 11...

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Jun 1, 2024
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Day One Hundred and Fifty Five - Curtea Darges
I have a tin ear for foreign languages. I recall once in some Arabic country I was working in asking if my client contact had spoken to...

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May 31, 2024
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One Hundred and Forty Five - Suffolk party aftermath
There was a corollary to the party in the Suffolk countryside after we'd dropped the doggie people off at their hotel. We didn't witness...

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May 21, 2024
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One Hundred and Forty Four - renewal
It's been two weeks since I stood on the scales for my last weigh in. And today I almost didn't do it because I know how bad I've been...

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May 20, 2024
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One Hundred and Forty Three - retro tech
This is a musing from my aeroplane travels last week. Despite the incredible ease in which we can go from Germany to Northern Ireland in...

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May 19, 2024
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One Hundred and Forty Two - Suffolk debrief
The party was a lot of fun but it's a hell of a long way out in the middle of nowhere. When it finished at 11:30pm, there were some...

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May 18, 2024
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One Hundred and Forty One - Suffolk party
Been invited to a do in the countryside this Saturday and thought it would be a good opportunity to try out one of these personalised...

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May 17, 2024
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One Hundred and Forty - showers
It's only when you go back to corporate travel that all the tiny irritations that make it such a pain in the arse come flooding back to...

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May 16, 2024
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One Hundred and Thirty Nine - blood
I'm on the corporate travelling trail again, flying hither and thither, which means any aches and pains you have accumulated at home...

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May 15, 2024
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One Hundred and Thirty Eight - receptionists
Some dental receptionists are chatty and welcoming. And that's often a nice prelude of a thing to experience before shortly afterwards...

Trig50ish
May 14, 2024
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