Life
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100 Days of Being – Wrapping Up
It feels somewhat surreal to be looking backwards, at the end of my #100DaysofBeing series for 2026, pondering how I managed it. When I started, there was the motivation of a not quite milestone birthday coming up to look forward to, one that suggested I need something to focus on/ discipline myself for. Having completed… Continue reading
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Protected: 100. A Hounding? A Few Thoughts
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98. Grey (Salt & Pepper) Beard Envy
Photo by Venti Views on Unsplash In the aftermath of yesterday’s outing, I popped on to Instagram and was greeted by yet another friend showcasing a salt and pepper beard. Being clean shaven as I am, battling a beard – never mind its colour – has not been something I have bothered with in all… Continue reading
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97. A Throwback to the City of Red Earth
I have a message on LinkedIn, not quite on the Lopes World Cup Level, to thank for a fantastic afternoon out, one which may not be topped in a while. The food, the company, and the opportunity to reminisce over life back in the city of red earth was much welcome, particularly given the work… Continue reading
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95. Dried Out
Between severe heat, dry weather and hose pipe bans, our garden has finally given up the ghost, taking on the semblance of a browned out Saharan grassland in place of its usually lush, deep green. It doesn’t look like any relief is on the way, with the dry spells and highs in excess of 30C… Continue reading
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94. Road Works Galore
Photo by Call Me Fred on Unsplash Besides the great weather (increasingly tending towards tropical, rather than being merely pleasant), summer is also road works season out here. This is over and above the road works around Ottershaw meant to relieve the pressure around 2,000 new homes will add as part of ongoing developments. Heading… Continue reading
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93. Summer Saturdays – Out and About in Woking
Seeing as we are as far removed from a proper Nigerian “enclave” as could be, we have to go to Woking every so often for our big shop. This weekend, L and I had the pleasure of popping into town for the big shop. In the hour and a bit we spent there, we were… Continue reading
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90. “Good” Leaving
Photo by Nataliya Melnychuk on Unsplash Such is the spate of news impacting my industry that the mood in the office on my three mandated days is meh at best. One is increasingly likely to see clusters of people talking in hushed tones, presumably attempting to collectively digest what the latest salvo – internal and/or… Continue reading
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87. Tatted Up
One of the delights of going back up North was rediscovering my old haunts, chief of which was shiprow. When I still lived up there, I went through there several times a day – to and fro work, and for non-work days on to Union Square and/or Church. Malones was the scene of many a… Continue reading
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86. Joy (And a Nigerian Party)
Suitably rested – as far as one can be outside their own bed – the main day came, and out to the sticks we went. Lodged as I was bang in the city centre, for the sake of my old haunts, getting there would have cost an arm an a kidney, thanks to the famously… Continue reading
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