Category Archives: life

The Berlin Wall

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Carps

Berlin as was “Who is Paul Carpenter?” That heavily-accented, staccato German voice from the front of the bus sent a total chill down my spine. I could feel everyone else wanting to see who “Paul Carpenter” was, but not daring … Continue reading →

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I crashed my car. Again. Whoops!

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Carps

Yeah yeah. Laugh it up, wiseass My track record with cars isn’t that great. I basically know nish all about them in the first place, so I can’t do that whole hanging-around-talking-about-spark-plugs thing that other men do. I’m only interested … Continue reading →

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Bonfire Night: the 5th of November

Posted on November 2, 2009 by Carps

Bonfire Night 2010 is in 58 days, 11 hours, 21 minutes, 53 seconds Fun for all the family. Nothing sinister here. Move along. Christmas might be bigger. Hallowe’en might be more popular with the kids. You might get more chocolate … Continue reading →

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Meeting Strangers from Facebook

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Carps

Yeah. I know. It sounds seedy. Nontheless, I spent the weekend in Nottingham with a bunch of people that hitherto I’d only known through Facebook. Continue reading →

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Apropos of nothing: camping

Posted on September 7, 2009 by Carps

Last week we went camping. I love camping. All that rootsy, muddy, singing round the campfire cooking Celebrity Pork Luncheon meat and stuff totally stokes my inner hippy. Continue reading →

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Whose Information?

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Carps

Me and Dave were talking the other about how ‘privacy’ is an almost laughable conceit these days. Continue reading →

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