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Why I love budget night

Posted: 25 May 12 | Free pizza is about the only thing I ever get out of budget night. Uncanny how I just fail to qualify for whatever CPI-indexed, family-tax-bracket-A, baby-bonus, vote-buying exercise going. |

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BLOG WITH SIMON: Get up and go slow

Posted: 18 May 12 | I figure if we were meant to pop out of bed, we’d all sleep in toasters. |

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On your mark

Posted: 11 May 12 | I want to talk today about great moments in stain, because I witnessed one recently. |

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Get organised

Posted: 04 May 12 | Conventional calendars have failed me. Mainly because I rarely read them. |

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Choc-full of guilt

Posted: 27 Apr 12 | Freedom of choice is a tricky subject, if you choose to think about it long enough. |

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BLOG WITH SIMON: Roads to Nowhere

Posted: 20 Apr 12 | Someone asked me recently if it’s possible to travel anywhere these days without a GPS. |

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THAT'S LIFE: Sticking it out

Posted: 13 Apr 12 | I recently made a comeback to veterans’ sport – hockey – after an eight-year break. |

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BLOG WITH SIMON: Forget me not

Posted: 06 Apr 12 | Gee I love getting stuff ready to take to work and then forgetting it. Lucky really, because I do it often enough. |

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BLOG WITH SIMON: Neither hair nor there

Posted: 30 Mar 12 | Getting a haircut sometimes involves more than just a physical journey to the salon. Way too often there’s an emotional safari too. |

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BLOG WITH SIMON: Upgrade slave

Posted: 23 Mar 12 | Our printer was nearly as old as Gutenberg – in technology terms – ie, about six months old. |

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Blog with Simon: Chemical brothers

Posted: 16 Mar 12 | Working out what to put in your pool is a delicate procedure. Most of the chemicals also feature in bomb-making. |

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Tree of strife

Posted: 09 Mar 12 | When I look at my family tree, I’m sometimes amazed it’s still standing. |

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Ticket deride

Posted: 02 Mar 12 | Let’s face it, there are millions of people out there worse off than us, right? But it sure don’t feel like it when we get a parking ticket. |

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Horses for courses

Posted: 24 Feb 12 | Uneducated types argue horse riding is not a sport. But it is, mainly for the horse. |

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SIMON WALKER: Catcher in the raw

Posted: 17 Feb 12 | I’m not sure if it’s anything to do with the rain, or heat, or that meteor shower the other night, but there’s been a stirring of insects round our place lately. |

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THAT'S LIFE: Romance gets away

Posted: 10 Feb 12 | Romance never dies but it certainly morphs over time. Ask any battle-hardened lover around Valentine’s Day. And while you’re at it, pass the nose-hair trimmer, dear. |

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THAT'S LIFE: Know when to fold 'em

Posted: 03 Feb 12 | It’s not the cards you’re dealt but how you play the hand that matters. Wise words from a person who’s never played 500 with a rookie. |

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THAT'S LIFE: Man with a plan

Posted: 27 Jan 12 | It occurred to me the other day that some people just aren’t fans of ‘‘man plans’’. They tend to associate them with disaster management. |

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Shop 'til you droop

Posted: 23 Jan 12 | I realised as the pace quickened from the carpark late December last year that I was heading towards something bigger than a Hollywood blockbuster - the Boxing Day sales. |

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The ambit gambit

Posted: 13 Jan 12 | Is it ever acceptable to exaggerate your situation in the hope that whoever you’re whinging to thinks you’re suffering more than you really are? |

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