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“You just have to accept that there are bad people in the world,” is something that various people have said to me at various times.    A lot of people think that I am a little naive, but I can’t help … Continue reading →

Anthony and I. I had a very nice evening yesterday, because I attended the book   launch of Anthony Nanson’s new novel Deep Time. This was pretty   exciting for me, because, despite my love of books, this was actually … Continue reading →

I wrote quite a popular blog post in February about why the Job Centre is not a very helpful service. Today I was asked to write another blog post on the same subject, and as I like to keep my … Continue reading →

As I’m sure regular readers will know, I like Japanese gaming site Rice Digital. If I didn’t like them, why would I write so many articles for them? Anyway, they recenty put out a video (made by none other than … Continue reading →

As of yesterday, the Trusty Water Blog is four years old. If I’m honest, I’m a little bit disappointed in myself for forgetting my blog’s birthday! Well, I suppose it wasn’t strictly a case of me forgetting, more a case … Continue reading →

I feel a little bad for, perhaps, having written a few too many politically oriented blog posts lately. If you don’t like posts like that, I’m sorry and I will probably stop after the election has passed. As the election … Continue reading →

Funnily enough, somebody once actually placed a curse on me. It was a cold morning back in 2008 and there was a slight drizzle. I was standing around outside the school with some friends and waiting for the school day … Continue reading →

I suppose this is the third in my series of anti-Job Centre blog posts, with the first two being here and here. Today I’m going to talk about the ways in which the Job Centre system can be abused, and … Continue reading →

What with the election coming up, I felt like I should probably write a topical blog post. I don’t quite feel that it would be right of me to say “you should vote for party X” because, really, all of … Continue reading →

Over the last year or so there’s been a lot of talk about a train station opening (or, I should say, reopening) in Corsham, more than I have ever known there be before. This has gotten me quite excited and … Continue reading →