Category: James Proclaims
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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…
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Neither Mrs Proclaims nor I are particularly good at remembering to send Christmas cards. In the past we have bought cards to send, made a…
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Happy Cyber Monday! Words to warm even the coldest of hearts as November draws to a close. Not some dystopian vision of a future in…
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I’m writing this on my phone. To me that is enough of a novelty for me to need no further content in this post.…
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It didn’t really occur to me when I started this blog that I would have any readers outside of my existing friends and family, and…
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A senior colleague announced today that it’s thirty more sleeps till Christmas. Maybe for you grandpa, I thought to myself before remembering that I too…
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The 2009 film ‘Invictus’ tells the story of how the South African national rugby team overcame the odds and and won the 1995 rugby world…
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On my lunch break as I write this. Frankly if I wasn’t attempting NaBloPoMo, I’d probably give today a miss. I’ve got university this evening…
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I’m writing this from inside a library. Not just any library but an actual university library. Where people come to study. In fact it’s the…
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I just enjoyed two slices of Marmite on toast. It was a thoroughly pleasant late evening snack, which should help me persevere with some of…
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When I was young I really enjoyed the Narnia books by CS Lewis. They captured my imagination and I really wanted to go to the…
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I’ve been thinking of how I can make this blog more popular because that kind of thing really matters to me. Am I being sarcastic…
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I’m not sure what the rules are for NaBloPoMo. Is there a minimum word count? Does the post actually have to be about anything? Or…
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If I can get to the weekend then it will all be ok. Coffee will help. Alcohol will not help, which is a shame because…
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It’s 11.05 pm GMT as I begin to write this and I’m gulping down my sixth cup of coffee of the day. It’s probably ill-advised…
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It’s November. November is a rubbish month. All the shops are full of Christmas stuff but Christmas is still ages away. It’s cold. It’s dark.…
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It’s one of those conundrums that I think many of us bloggers go through. I’ve been through it before in previous incarnations of my online…
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Day 14 of Writing 101 was to write a post that takes place within a single day. I think that particular ‘time constraint’ already applies…
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