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Feeling Lazy

I don't know what's wrong with me today but I just don't feel like doing anything - maybe it's a 'thank god it's Friday' but I'm sitting in the house doing nothing when really I want to be getting stuff done! I've done a few surveys and that's abo
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Posted in Random on September 18, 2015

Virtual Persona Paper Potluck

I'm taking up Feisty56 's invitation to the Virtual-Persona-Paper-Potluck (after Googling what a Potluck is, I know the word but it's not a name for a party here in the UK). Anyway, it make me think of some bunting I saw on Amazon a while ag
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Posted in Random on September 16, 2015

Help Please!

Can anyone please tell me how to tag 'something' here on Persona Paper? I know how to tag a person but suspect it's not as easy as that - I can't find anything official on here and the search function isn't throwing much up (ie. nothing) so I thought
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Posted in Persona Paper on September 16, 2015

Richard Glossip's Execution Halted

So glad to hear the news that Richard Glossip's legal team have gained a stay of execution, two weeks isn't much time to investigate something to save someone's life - but at least he won't be dead in the next few hours. His case is a frightening
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Posted in Politics on September 16, 2015

Early Morning Bargains

After reading a post by LoudMan earlier and his bargains I thought I'd tell you about some excellent deals I had in the shop this morning; as I mentioned earlier I was up and about early so decided to take advantage of the fact and popped out ear
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Posted in Food on September 16, 2015

Good Morning

Morning everyone (or evening, or afternoon, or whatever time you're on). I'm on a roll this morning, all the before-school preparations are done and I've actually got five minutes to enjoy a coffee and check my emails before taking the kids to sch
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Posted in Random on September 16, 2015

A Fascinating Historical Read

I've just finished a book written in the 60s by a lady called Antonia Fraser, she wrote a lot of historical non-fiction during that decade but I'd never actually heard of her until I found this book in a charity shop a few weeks ago. The subject of t
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Posted in Books on September 15, 2015

No Coronation Street For Me For A While...

I've been catching up with the soaps over the weekend and have realised Coronation Street are on the verge of running a storyline involving childhood cancer, a subject I don't want to dwell on while I'm relaxing in front of the TV in the evening. I k
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Posted in Entertainment on September 15, 2015

First Christmas Pressie Has Arrived

Ooooh, I know it's only September but I've just opened the door to the parcel man and brought in the first Christmas present of 2015! I sold some bits on Ebay last week and used the profits to order my train-mad four year old a wooden Tidmouth Sheds
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Posted in Holidays on September 14, 2015

Time To Create Safe Zones?

Things are terrible in this world at the moment, oh I know most of us sitting here on our laptops or phones using the internet aren't suffering too badly but this refugee crisis is absolutely awful. So many people are trying to escape war, ISIS, 'fri
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Posted in Breaking News on September 14, 2015