Category: James Proclaims
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Hello people who read my posts. Today is a very exciting day for two reasons, both of which pertain to this very blog. Firstly, it’s…
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After a fortnight’s break from this ‘feature’, I’m back with more ‘Stuff I Used To Do But Don’t Do Any More’. It’s perhaps appropriate, after…
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So this is the second part of the third part of my series of posts on stuff I used to do. It might help to…
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If you read yesterday’s limerick, you might have surmised that I was feeling a little under the weather. Indeed, I have had something of a…
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Saturday lunchtimes are often a conundrum for Mrs Proclaims and I. Most meal times are pretty regulated these days due to a highly efficient grocery-shopping…
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Just over a year ago my phone decided to spontaneously combust. Up until that point it had been a functional but nonetheless unglamorous model of…
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As of tomorrow morning the Christmas holidays are officially over. In fact the tree and decorations are coming down today. I know that Twelfth Night…
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Well here we are in 2017. Lots of people are glad to see the back of 2016 but I think it’s a little harsh to…
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The trouble with ‘Twixmas’, the period between Christmas and New Year, is it’s pretty hard to judge exactly how to play things ‘health wise’. In…
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As I acknowledged in last year’s Boxing Day post, the day after Christmas has nothing to do with pugilism. Nonetheless, this morning I woke up…
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As Noddy Holder off of Slade shouts whenever anyone cares to listen: IT’S CHRISTMAS! Noddy likes Christmas and if I’d written and performed one of…
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I didn’t start this blog to discuss politics. I know nothing about politics really. Aside from what you’d expect a really intelligent person to know.…
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Four and half months on and Brexit is still very much the issue ‘du jour’ on this side of the Atlantic. Other things have, of…
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It’s been something like six and half weeks since I last blogged. Which is quite a long time. The longest I’ve ever gone AWOL from…
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It’s easy to be cynical about the Olympics if you want to be. Stories of drug cheats, athletes behaving badly, and excessively sycophantic media coverage…
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A few weeks ago I got a letter from my local household recycling centre. I wasn’t expecting them to write to me. I’ve always had…
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In the post Brexit bewilderment, many people looked to sport to lighten the mood. It’s pretty clear that the UK is currently in a political…
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Despite recent evidence to the contrary, this blog is not meant to be about political commentary. It’s meant to be a whimsical collection of bad…
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The dust is starting to settle and apparently the apocalypse hasn’t happened. Yet. But the post-Brexit UK does feel different and none of us are…
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I haven’t blogged for ten days or so. It’s not been for a lack of inspiration but I’ve been quite busy for the last week…
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It’s my Blogiversary Or should it be blogoversary? A google search suggests that either spelling is an acceptable way of describing the anniversary of the…
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Z is for ‘Zeal’ I had a tremendous amount of zeal when I started this A-Z challenge but the zeal started to disappear about halfway…
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Y is for ‘Year’ And it won’t be long until I’ve been blogging for a year. May 10th is my blogiversary. One year ago I…
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Any challenge which involves coming up with words that begin with each letter of the alphabet is plagued by the letter ‘X’. Aside from xylophone,…
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‘W’ is for ‘Why’. It’s also for ‘Who’, ‘What’, ‘Where and ‘When’. It isn’t for ‘How’ but there is a ‘W’ in ‘How’. These are…
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V is for vague. I have, in my time, relied heavily on my ability to be vague when it counts. It’s essentially how I managed…
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U is for ‘Underwhelming’. ‘Underwhelming’ is probably a fair way to describe this post. It’s almost as if I’ve stopped trying but my stubborn, inflexible…
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Time. I never seem to have any to do the things I want to. I’m always busy doing other stuff. Like work. Or ironing shirts.…
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I’m something of an insomniac Except in the mornings. When I have no difficulty sleeping through an alarm clock. In the mornings I drink coffee…
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