Monday saw another change of locality as I wooshed west to the A1 then up to Durham to catch Tony & June again. I settled in and enjoyed a cuppa before driving up to Low Fell (via McD’s) to see Jon – who I met when we delivered newspapers for the same shop a scary [...]

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The early rise was to get to Chris and Lyds’ (again) early enough to lug some bags of clothes and the like down to the car before I had to set off in time to get to Lightwater Valley and meet Viv and a handful of kids. With Chris’ help, I managed to sort some [...]

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In the morning, I was rudely kicked out by my hostess as she had to get to the aforementioned place of employment and I decided to traipse into Halifax to see some old work colleagues at SSP. It was great to see them again, and I remember why I enjoyed working there so much. A [...]

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Wow, that’s been a busy week… and more to come! Where have I been? Well. I left you in Manchester where Andy had been doing my ego good by letting me score goals past him, and doing my arteries bad by force-feeding me junk food for two days. The horror. From there I drove eastwards [...]

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Tuesday saw me rushing through a gazillion more little tasks and trying to find stuff in the cellar (where the hell are all my shoes anyway?) before driving down to Manchester where I was to stay with Andy before my interview. I’ve not had the paperwork back about the driver position I was offered (and [...]

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A lot of you won’t be old enough to have heard of Desperate Dan, but I am. He’s a main character in the Dandy comic, and has been since 1937. He’s also one of the landmarks in Dundee, where I spent the weekend. There’s a whacking statue of him in the middle of town, with [...]

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Back with the ‘rents and the poochies for a couple of days. I’ve got a huge stack of paperwork to get through, things to dig out, comics to read (19 months’-worth of 2000AD, Judge Dredd and Viz…), arrangements to make, clothes to find… Gah. Of course, the upside is a lack of rent, great food [...]

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Snow. In Scotland. Indoors. There’s an Xscape which has opened recently in a place called Braehead to the west of Glasgow and it took very little convincing for my uncle to pack my little cousin’s wellies and waterproofs in a rucksack and take us there. It’s not the cheapest day out, especially outside of term [...]

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And off up to Scotland for a couple of weeks. Rather than heading directly to see my parents, I drove up the M74 to Glasgow to see my little cousin who I’ve missed a lot. I’ve actually missed around a quarter of her life during my travels as she’s only just over six years old. [...]

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Another short visit, this time to see Chris and Ali near Aintree. Since I left, they’ve inherited a beautiful laborador called Ashley who’s about as soft and daft as his breed are allowed to be. As ever with C&A, this was a complete chill-out of a visit. Beer drunk, pie and chips eaten (yum), Top [...]

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