Category: James Proclaims
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Today is my third blogiversary. That’s right, I’ve been doing this blogging malarkey for three whole years now. Which seems like a respectable amount of…
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The clocks went forward yesterday. The downside of this is that we all have to get up an hour earlier. The upside is that it…
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As my output on this blog is currently quite prolific, I thought I might partake in another blogging challenge. Specifically the A-Z blogging challenge, in…
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I was struggling to think of what to write today, and almost didn’t bother posting. But I’m on such a hot blogging streak at the…
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After the recent bout of inclement weather, caused by either ‘The Beast From The East’ or ‘Storm Emma’, which may be the same thing or…
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It’s the 26th February and before this week is out, it’ll be March. March! The days will start to get a bit longer, the…
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As I write this it’s Valentine’s Day. If you’re reading this on the day it actually hits my blog then it isn’t Valentine’s Day anymore…
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I don’t much understand the Winter Olympics – we didn’t get to do much skiing, snowboarding or speed-skating when I was growing up in South…
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Since the UK voted to leave the European Union in June 2016, it’s barely been out of the media. The election of a racist…
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Do bloggers blog about the very act of blogging when they can’t think what else to blog about? Perhaps so. I know I’ve been guilty…
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At the moment I appear to be in quite a bizarre place health wise. The Christmas period certainly did very little to reduce my weight.…
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As someone of mixed race, it is, of course, technically impossible for me to be racist. Except that it isn’t. For, despite being a remoaning…
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So 2017 is but a distant memory and now it’s all about 2018. And what better way to start the new year than by making…
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Today is Boxing Day, a day which means different things to different people. To some it’s a day to recover from the excesses of Christmas…
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If you’re reading this at the exact moment it was published, then you’re not watching the Queen’s speech live. Because, as is now James Proclaims…
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Another day, another Christmas(ish) film. But just what is behind door number 3? Goodness me, it’s Lethal Weapon. Which is, surprisingly enough, another Shane Black…
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And so today is the last day of November. Which is a good thing, because November is rubbish. But tomorrow is December. And December is…
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This month I have derided, mocked and otherwise made-fun of various November ‘traditions’. Many of my posts this month have been mock-ups of potential novels…
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As November draws to a close, so too must my series of not-novels that I won’t be writing for this year’s NaNoWriMo. If you’re actually…
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Sometimes I like to think of Black Friday as the ‘bad guy’ in a second-rate action flick. He’s over-the-top and stupid, but poses a genuine…
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I enjoy a made-up-day as much as anyone. This month alone we’ve observed ‘World Sandwich Day’, ‘World Television Day’, ‘World Toilet Day’, ‘World Kindness Day’,…
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Back by ‘popular’ demand, here is my eleventh suggestion for a novel that I could have attempted to write during the annual novel-writing festival that…
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Well, here we are again, at the culmination of the Black Friday celebrations. After an exciting ‘Black Friday Week’ in which the deals were, quite…
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Happy Thanksgiving! Is that the correct greeting today? I don’t know. I’m British. We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving over here. Or I don’t anyway. I can’t…
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Have I really come up with ten of these? Well no, as it happens I’ve come up with eleven. But this is the tenth. The…
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Apparently today is ‘World Television Day’. I don’t know why we need a day for that. Don’t get me wrong, I like watching TV as…
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Here I am again with another idea for a book I’ll never write. Where do they keep coming from? I don’t know. Maybe it’s a…
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There are many arbitrary calendar dates that have been requisitioned for commercial or charitable reasons dotted throughout the calendar. There’s someone at my place of…
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Another day, another horrendously bad idea for a novel. A novel I won’t be writing. In honour of my continued non-participation in this year’s NaNoWriMo.…
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Ok people, you know the drill. This is the bit of my blog when I tell you about a novel that I’m definitely not writing…
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Today is Beaujolais Nouveau Day. It’s a day when the wine makers of the Beaujolais region in France would like you to sample their latest…
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