Author: John

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We’re very pleased with ourselves. Last night was the Livingston and Broxburn Brass Band’s christmas concert and the whole lot of us were playing! And we weren’t awful! So, nerves shot to hell, the panic is just starting to subside (panic, I might add, caused by hearing just how amazing the senior band are) and

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The Crash Test Dummies Save Christmas

Just when the jingly-jangly boyband-poptastic misery of Christmas was getting into it’s sticky-sweet candied frenzy, an amazing discovery has been made! The Crash Test Dummies made an album of Christmas Carols and I never knew! It’s a collection of all the traditional christmas standards and it’s completely awesome! From now on, my Christmas listening habits

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Fairytale Of New Labour – Episode 1

In which rampaging political correctness strikes at the very heart of all that is sacred. So, Wifie – the Christmas Spirit being upon her – decided to buy a “Best Ever Christmas Songs Ever Ever Volume 29” album. You know the one, Noddy Holder, Chris de Burgh – the kind of thing you can only

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Trying out a new posting tool.

OK, so posting via the web interface is nice and all, but sometimes I just want to fire off a quick thought with the minimum of effort. Firing up Firefox on these occasions is too much like hard work so I thought I’d look for something slimmer. At the moment, I’m posting via a nice

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Stuff and Nonsense.

I’ve been seriously lapse of late – Chewbury.Net has become a place of Endless Echoing Silence, and The Temple of Bague has been reduced to an electronic Larry-count. I guess it’s just cos of all the other stuff that’s been going of late – the run up to christmas, rediscovering miniature painting, working, kids clubs,

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Some Models

 Well, I thought I’d put on a couple of posts about Warhammer models. I’m not sure why, exactly, except I like being all beardy and playing the game and being all pony-taily and painting the miniatures. Should get it clear first of all, though, that I’m by no means an expert miniature painter and my

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