Category: James Proclaims
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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…
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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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R is for Reading and also for reading. When it is written with a capital ‘R’and pronounced as ‘redding’ it’s a town in Berkshire and the…
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Q is for queen. There are four of them in a pack of playing cards. There was a band called Queen. They had a few…
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I don’t wish to be pedantic… …but if people insist on getting things wrong… …then they’ve really only got themselves to blame. …
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It might seem obvious that ‘obvious’ begins with an ‘o’. But it is less obvious, to some, that the second letter is a ‘b’. A…
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It might have been funnier if I’d left this post blank. If I’d written nothing at all. That might have been the way to go,…
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You know how some people write stuff but there doesn’t seem to be any real direction to what they are writing? They start but then…
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L is for lots of things. But ‘Lazy’ is a valid choice. And in the spirit of my chosen word, that is all I’m going…
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Knowledge is power. With great power comes great responsibility. So I’d rather know nothing. I jest of course. I like knowing stuff. By and large…
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What kind of a narcissist would use his own name as the subject of a blog post? Probably the same kind of narcissist who would…
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Some people might describe me as being ‘easily irritated’. They may be correct in this assertion but they might also want to take a good…
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When I first started this blog, approximately eleven months ago, I had absolutely no intention of writing poetry. But somewhere along the line I seem…
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