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Saw Skyfall today.
Apart from some ridiculous behaviour from rude little kids, which I will rant about in another post, here's what I thought.
An amazing film. Probably the best Bond film ever, and I am an aficionado of both the novels and the films.
Very real and adult, it breaks all the Bond film rules and yet feels more Bond like than most of...
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Words
There are no bad words, only bad thoughts and feelings - George Carlin

I use strong words in these posts to accurately describe my thoughts on the subject I'm writing about. In the last post I called Michael Gove a cunt.
I know this word can often cause offence, especially to women.
I am merely using the word to most accurately describe my feelings...
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This was what I wanted to post on Facebook but then decided that it wasn't appropriate there.

For those of you that don't know, Michael Gove is the UK minister for Education. In my opinion he is a thoroughly nasty, misguided, prejudiced, vile little man. His views on education are regressive in the extreme and incredibly insulting to those who work and care about the...
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Not sure why I am taking up blogging again. My life has gone through some pretty crappy twists and turns recently and I kind of feel like I need a space to vent. I used to use Facebook for notes of the type that I will post here but recently I have begun to feel that FB is not the appropriate medium for deep thoughts...
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Any UK World of Darkness roleplayers out there?

I'm training to be a primary teacher and it is so exhausting. I seem to spend all my free time planning lessons and evaluating children's work. Managed to pop out to see some local wrestling last night, which was very cool.
An abundance of SG candidates amongst the fantastic female wrestlers on show.

Back to the planning I guess

Listening to Bill Hicks after a bit of a break from him. He was wise, principled, angry, contrary, filled with both infinite love and hate and a vision for the world and a desire for it to evolve from the fucked up state it's still in.
He is a hero to me, both inspirational and depressing.

I really like dressing up so I thought I'd give SF CosPlay a go.
Anyone know any good sites, tips for newbies?

Hmmm, what should I blog about on here?

I find life so difficult. I grew up on a steady diet of sci-fi and horror and superheroes etc.
I just can't get to grips with the fact that life isn't epic. The mundanity of it all cripples me.

I thought I would be a super spy with a string of SG like lovers. Instead I am...
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