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Running with the Bulls

I went running with the bulls in Pamplona this year. If you’re not aware of this particular pastime, it’s like this: Six bulls run through the streets of the town.You run in front of them, until they catch up.Then you run alongside them and let them pass.That’s it. It’s known in Spain as the encierro, […]

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Unimportant Things

One of those old blog-games that used to go around back when dinosaurs roamed the earth. List six unimportant things about yourself. Thing The First In my early twenties I contracted Bell’s Palsy. One of the nerves in my neck became inflamed, swelling and trapping the other, which resulted in complete paralysis of half of […]

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Five Things

Here are five things about me which other people might think lame, but which make me who I am. 1) I cry at sad stories. Including but not limited to Casualty last Saturday, and the sad song that Jessie sings in Toy Story 2 about how people grow up and grow apart from the things […]

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Scientologists prove Cybermen to be utterly terrifying

I was out during my lunch hour yesterday when I happened to pass an outpost of the Church of Scientology. And they were offering free stress tests. Well, I had to stop really. The machine they use – an e-meter – is a big old clunky device with an old-fashioned meter on the front, and […]

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