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According to Katie Melua, there are nine million bicycles in Beijing. I've never been to Beijing, and even if I had, I doubt I'd have the time or inclination to find out if that is true. I have, however, been to Cambridge. Cambridge is a university town in East Anglia, England, where people presumably go to r… Read more »
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Almost fifteen years ago to the day I was preparing to sit down for the first of my GCSE exams. I managed to get ten GCSEs in all. The two I scored highest in were English Literature, which came as a surprise to me at the time but makes a lot of sense now, and Music. I loved music back then, as I do now. I'd… Read more »
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Today I had the office to myself. The rest of my team managed to get roped into a meeting in London with our chairman and some of his colleagues at one of the other firms he's involved with. From experience (at my last company), being invited to meetings like that is often a dubious honour. Sometimes they're… Read more »
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I was recently reminded of what it is like to shop in town when it is busy. Since I stopped working in the city centre, I haven't had much cause for it. While I sometimes miss being able to pick up any essentials in the middle of the day, my lunch breaks these days are free of the hustle and bustle of a busy… Read more »
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It comes to something when all I can think to write about is the weather. It is especially sad given that I live in a country that has so little of it. As I've mentioned on countless occasions, the weather in Britain tends to go through varying degrees of mild. It can get warmer. It can get colder. It can be… Read more »
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At the first sign of sun, the sunglasses are on, the coats are left at home and the barbeque is fired up at the weekend. This is how Britain works. Spring started a week or so ago and, perhaps more through coincidence than timing, a spell of good weather arrived with it. A week or so before that, the weather… Read more »
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Thank you for your correspondence. I appreciate the amount of thought and effort that must have gone into it. Whenever I have tried to imitate 'txt speak' in the past is has taken far longer to type what I was trying to say than had I simply typed it in English. Your efforts, therefore, must have taken you ag… Read more »
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In the course of answering a question on Twitter, I've just unintentionally taken part in a brief grammatical debate. Since I haven't covered anything grammatical for a while and I still need another blog for this month, I thought I'd explain my answer on here on the off chance it helps someone. The question… Read more »
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It's cold at work. It often is. In the summer months, it's not so bad. Having windows along one side of the building lets the sun in, sometimes achieving something bordering on pleasant. But between the tail end of autumn and the onset of spring, the office is like a fridge. It does have heating, but it's tem… Read more »
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By definition, you only ever get one first impression. And in some cases the future you have in mind may depend on it. It's annoying, therefore, that making the right one isn't always straightforward. Any number of things could let you down: your appearance, how you present yourself, what you do, what you say… Read more »