Category: James Proclaims
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One of the great things about my kids is that they will talk to me about anything. Literally anything. And as an educational professional I…
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It’s Sunday again, and therefore time for me to sum up my week in blogging. And I’m well and truly back now, posting seven days…
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I don’t understand social media. It’s not an age thing, I don’t think. I’m no Spring Chicken, of course. I don’t even really know what…
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This summer we adopted a donkey. Which sounds like a much bigger life decision than it actually was. There is, in point of fact, no…
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It’s Sunday so it’s time to summarise. And what a week it’s been. Actually, I’ve spent most of this week alternating between being quite stressed…
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Well, here I am on the Substack For years I’ve been toiling away over on The WordPress, being largely ignored, when it turns out there…
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Welcome back to another Sunday Summary. I seem to be very much back on the blogging wagon, and I managed to complete the intended schedule…
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On the day this post goes live, I’ll be returning from my family holiday, although at the time of writing, I haven’t yet gone on…
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My blogging resurgence has been going pretty well. The new schedule I introduced for myself back in June seems to be something I’ve broadly been…
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We’re into the third week proper of the summer holidays, and I have been off work for that entire time. “You could have fooled me!”…
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Today is Little Proclaims’ birthday. This is quite a big deal in the Proclaims household, largely because Little Proclaims wouldn’t have it any other way.…
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I seem to have slightly fallen off the wagon with regards my recent and, dare I say, triumphant , return to blogging regularly. I think…
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Has it really been 13 years since the TV show Breaking Bad concluded? Apparently so. I know there have been some spinoffs in El Camino…
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The sound of Little Proclaims yodelling is not especially common, even in Proclaims Towers. Indeed I didn’t even know she could yodel and finding out…
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It’s Sunday again, and I’ve got what I call Sundaynightitis, but what the cool kids call the Sunday Scaries. I wrote about that back in…
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A few times on this blog I have mentioned the fact that I do martial arts. I have mentioned it because it is true. Hence…
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We’re now three weeks into my blogging renaissance, which I think is far enough in that I really should stop drawing attention to how many…
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Another Thursday, another deep dive into the archives. This is the 5th ever post on James Proclaims and clearly I was on something of a…
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Mini Proclaims is sitting next to her sister, consuming frozen empty calories on a lolly stick and watching the same empty content her sister so…
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My blog resurgence appears to be going well. I’m back with my second Sunday Summary, which suggests I have something to summarise. Which is excellent…
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It wasn’t my intention, when I started doing this Throwback Thursday malarkey, to just sequentially repost all of my old posts in order, but it…
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There were three in the bed and the little one said: “Sorry Dad, there’s no room for you.” Well, in fairness, she didn’t. She was…
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I appear to have started blogging regularly again. Which is possibly good news if you like the kind of things I write. It possibly isn’t…
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I’ve been blogging for a while. Over eleven years on this blog for starters, although I did notionally exist before I started writing here, and…
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The reproachful look on the face of the Tesco delivery driver made me die a little inside. There he was, punctual, friendly and efficiently providing…
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Mini Proclaims’ singing might be better described as ‘enthusiastic’ rather than tuneful, but one can surely not fault her effort. Indeed, so compelling is her…
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Oh, here he comes, the ‘podcaster’. Too high and mighty for the blogging community now, is he? You’d be forgiven for making that assumption. I…
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As I write this it is the 3rd day of 2026, and a Saturday morning, but as I’m using my phone for the initial draft,…
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Hello 2026! I have high hopes for you. Then again I had high hopes for 2025. And 2024. And all the other years that have…
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As I write this, it is still very much Christmas Eve, but as with all of my ‘Christmas Day Messages’ this will hit the blogosphere…
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As I write this, I find myself running the risk of not completing the feat of 30 consecutive daily posts throughout November. I am currently…
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