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Hoarding. I am not bad. I am not like the people you see on obscure TV programmes who never throw things away... but I do sometimes look at things and think "I will need that again". To this end for technical things I have two rather sizeable containers for said things, one marked cables, one marked hardware.

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... as they sang gleefully in Holiday Inn, swinging the doors to the barn open! While Christmas was a white affair, and while technically there was no lack of snow - it was no the usual wet dregs. The rules of the game appear to have been changed, and on Tuesday 5th January 2010 at around 1220 the skies darkened and a lesser (and considerably more fun) hell was let lose, with proper powder snow falling onto North Wales - in fact so much that it resulted in us abandoning our car and walking home (hills - never good after rain and a -6C night) that day (4 hours for 6 miles with car/foot).

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A set of images from Dubrovnik old city has uploaded : )

I have to say that returning to somewhere like Venice, we are both fortunate in opportunity and in that it allows you to just mooch - as opposed to map clutching speed walking like a crazed orienteer. Florence was a similar experience - far more ice cream, smiles, and distraction. More of what holidays are all about.

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There is something about the raw escape of a holiday that not so much brings you back with a bump, but anchors you back, grounds you back into the world in which you belong on your return. Something like the gap between the changed-as-good-as-move-out-of-them Egyptian Cotton sheets versus the sleep like the proverbial log first night back in your own bed, no matter how worn it might be. You cannot buy stuff like that - a sense of soul.

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This last weekend I took a walk out with friends to clear away some cobwebs. Having downgraded the plan for the steeper ascent of Moel Hiraddug, we headed over the trig point on Graig Fawr (big rock) which is clearly visible (if a little very tiny) from the living room.

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You know sometimes when you get that "is it me, or is it everyone else?". Well the other day I had one of those that was specifically "everyone else". MOST reassuring.

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Last Tuesday spelt return to Coleg. Llandrillo Coleg is now part of Glyndwr University - and while I feel kinda sorry for the people doing full on Degree's there - you have to pass it to them for a sense of ambition (as the research building we are in - is now under Glyndwr's wing - big plans clearly). I digress.

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Woohooo. New office, new view, new desk (same building).

They say that a change is as good as a rest - I think this was possibly a manager, or officer that came up with this, as its clearly questionable - but it has certainly changed my outlook (if temporarily).

I now sit directly under a window and with a move to a poor colour rendition wide screen TFT, an air conditioning remote, and an office that doesn't smell of stale processed food. It's surprising what that can do for your focus.

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