Category: James Proclaims
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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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Games rhymes with James. I like rhymes. But I don’t always like games. I can tolerate an occasional round of Monopoly, but I find my…
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This is Freddie. Freddie was a frog. I refer to Freddie in the past tense because he is no longer with us. He wasn’t a…
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E is for ‘envelope’. Today I tried pushing the envelope. All I succeeded in doing was moving the envelope slightly further away from me. E…
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Day four of the A-Z challenge and perhaps now would be as good a time as any to stop counting the days. But not the…
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Day 3 of the A-Z challenge (cos we get Sundays off apparently) and in my experience the third letter of the alphabet is the letter…
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Sometimes people that I know will refer to something I’ve written on these pages. It always takes me by surprise. I do know people read…
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I always enjoy a good ‘blogging’ challenge and apparently April is the month of the A-Z blogging challenge. The goal, in so far as…
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Mrs Proclaims and I live in quite a nice bit of town. We didn’t realise it was an especially nice bit of town when we…
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With ever-changing specifications, there is an increasing tendency to make exam questions more pertinent to real life. Sensing an opportunity to make my fortune, I’m…
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Today is apparently a big day for the UK in terms of our relationship with the rest of Europe. Our beloved Prime Minister, and genuine…
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Hello dear reader and welcome back to James Proclaims. You catch me in the middle of a construction project. I’m currently building a chest of…
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Tradition dictates that because it’s the beginning of a new year, I must make lots of pledges to change my way of life, even though…
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Boxing Day, as it turns out, has very little to do with pugilism. This message did not get through, perhaps, to the early bird consumers…
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‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house Not a creature was stirring… Except for an overweight bloke, dressed in red and filling…
