My uncertain selection of Desert Island Discs

 Sarah copied Ben and I’m copying Sarah. Please feel free to copy me in any way you feel you would like to. The easiest ways to be like me are to waffle nonsense, be socially inept on a regular basis, whinge a lot, be indecisive and watch too much TV.
Anyway, I’m going to stick to [...]

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The (not so) funky Gibbons

I think I might have given up with NaBloPoMo for May. So easily defeated, I know. I am still attempting to write reasonably regularly, but I’m not going to lose any sleep if I don’t manage to post every day.
On Friday night I went to my mum’s church choir practice. Again, I was really there [...]

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Two of my favourite things*

Yes, I know, I didn’t write a post yesterday. I’m going to write two today to make up for it. I know this won’t really make it any better, but at least I will have attempted to atone for my blogging sin(s).
I didn’t manage to write a post yesterday because I was out for most [...]

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The internal negative voice

Hazel wants to know why I don’t always have the confidence to write about the things on my list of voice-related topics for May’s NaBloPoMo (see comments on this post). Somewhat serendipitously, if not particularly cheerfully, answering her question gives me an opportunity to write about the ‘internal negative voice’, which was one of the topics on my list. [...]

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In dreams

I had a particularly odd dream last night. I dreamt that I was in the cast of Heroes and I was in a scene with Matt Parkman where we were running through the streets of somewhere Roman, from what I could tell. Matt didn’t have the required pass to get through to the next section of the [...]

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The sound of the giraffe

I have often wondered what sound a giraffe makes, and it seems that many other people have, too. Just try searching for “giraffe noise” or “giraffe sounds” or similar in Google, Yahoo or wherever and see how many results come up! I haven’t seen many giraffes in real life, but the ones I have seen [...]

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Birdsong

At the moment the lovely people at the BBC are encouraging people to listen to the dawn chorus. I usually wake up (although I don’t usually get up) when the dawn chorus is in full swing, just as it’s getting light.  I find the birdsong comforting and relaxing and it’s definitely among my favourite sounds. It’s the [...]

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Speaking out

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because [...]

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