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Wrote a short piece ostensibly about the entirety of human experience but actually about one particular anxiety markstaylor.uk/fiction/2023/03/a-quick-look-back

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There can be few greater delights than your son bursting into the room and saying ‘Daddy! Daddy! Can you be Fezzik?’

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I made a Tonies/Yoto-style children’s story player for my son. I am pretty pleased with myself (and he thinks it’s basically fine) https://markstaylor.uk/blog/2023/03/building-a-childrens-storybook-reader

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Automating a task in the full knowledge that it probably won’t be quicker, but it will mean the time is spent doing something not completely mindless.

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Loved this month’s Stories of our Lives discussion on ‘Rainy Days’, a theme drip-dropping with associations literal, literary, metaphorical and musical. Wonderful as always to read the writing it provoked: storiesofourlivesnow.org/2023/02/18/rainy-days/

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Went to the gym and fixed my bike on the same day and now I don’t know if I’ve got tired legs or a fucked-up bike.

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My son has decided that today is everyone’s birthday. Happy birthday everyone! (You still get your normal birthday; apologies to those whose normal birthday is today.)

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Just seen an emergency pull cord in an accessible toilet that was not only tied up, it was tied to the fold-down support rail so that folding the rail down would activate the alarm. I wish I was surprised.

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Things could have been so different if only all the king’s horses or all the king’s men had had access to hot glue.

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My son is explaining the difference between the human Blippi and the cartoon one. He differentiates them as ‘the Blippi with blood’ and ‘the Blippi without blood’.

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