Category: James Proclaims
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It is Sunday afternoon as I write this. Mini Proclaims is napping, having recently covered herself and much of the dining table in my home-made sweet…
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Like most of its predecessors, 2024 is a year. Whether it is a good year or a bad year (or a blameless measurement of time…
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As I write this, some potatoes are roasting in my oven. They are basking contently in olive oil, garlic and rosemary. I’m quietly confident they…
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As it is the third Monday in January, it is officially and indisputably Blue Monday – the most depressing day of the year. The rationale…
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As it is January and thus still very much a time for making unrealistic pledges, I’m still fairly confident that I’m going to turn around…
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As it’s New Year’s Day I find myself, as I do most years, compiling a list of stuff that I need to start doing in…
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As I write this I’m still enjoying a Christmas Day which has predominantly seen me sitting around in a festive onesie, drinking too much beer…
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I’m wearing a onesie festooned with images of Christmas trees and reindeer. I’m a tad more inebriated than would be the norm mid-afternoon. The oven…
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As January comes to an end, much to the relief, no doubt, of people who like to blame arbitrary measures of time for all the…
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I appear to have unintentionally had another hiatus on my blog. Having posted daily throughout November and December, I started January in a similar vein,…
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It’s Sunday evening as I write this and thus the end of the first weekend after the post-Christmas return to work. It was not a…
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It’s New Year’s Day and thus time to lift myself out of the pit of Christmas excess and make some empty promises about how much…
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Yesterday was Boxing Day, but today is also Boxing Day. Although perhaps there is no such thing as Boxing Day. It depends on where you…
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And so this is ChristmasAnd what have you done?Probably not very muchA new variant’s just begun. Yes it’s another Covid Christmas. I’m all for Christmas…
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It’s the early hours of the morning as I write this, but having been unceremoniously woken up by Little Proclaims, and realising that I didn’t…
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It’s the penultimate day of NaNoWriMo, which I am quite glad about because, as much as I have enjoyed attempting (and largely failing) to write…
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Although I have two more days left of this challenge, today was really the last opportunity to have a big push towards the final word…
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Day 27 and we’re 90% of the way to NaNoWriMo completion. Not that I’ll have a completed novel at the end of this, but I’ve…
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Happy Black Friday everyone! Or should I say ‘Happy Last Day Of Black Friday’? One of the many retailers who have been emailing me all…
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If I’m not mistaken, today is Thanksgiving. Not here in the UK obviously. I was at work as normal today, but I am aware that…
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After a fairly underwhelming few days of NaNoWriMo-ing, I appear to have roared back into life this evening. While the prospect of being a NaNoWriMo…
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23 days in to a 30-day challenge and it can be hard to see the point of it all. When I finally hit day 30,…
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There have been a few times this month when I have almost fallen asleep while writing these posts, but tonight I’m even more tired than…
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Day 21 NaNoWriMo, and thus we’re 70% of the way there. My word count continues to flounder and not for the first time I find…
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I may or may not be slightly inebriated as I wite this. I have been drinking beer, so it would be reasonable to question my…
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It’s Friday, which is never a bad thing. I have the weekend ahead of me and I’m very much looking forward to not being at…
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One of the more recent November phenomenons is the UK’s adoption of Black Friday. It’s quite a strange concept that a country that does not…
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This is the second time I’ve attempted NaNoWriMo. The last time was in 2014. I didn’t do very well that time. I’m not sure when…
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When I started doing this challenge I knew it would be pretty tough to maintain the novel-writing bit of it. What I hadn’t anticipated was…
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Day 15 of NaNoWriMo and this is officially the halfway point. At least it is in terms of days. I’m not even close to the…
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I’m officially 2 weeks in to my NaNoWriMo/NaBloPoMo adventure. It’s not exactly the halfway point, but it feels like a milestone of sorts. I’m now…
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