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August 2nd, 2006

The return…

It’s been 5 months since my last post. Since then I have got a new Mac, bought an expensive suit, become a married man, visited Iceland again, destroyed my Sony phone by sitting on it, got a new Motorola phone, changed my job, turned 31, changed job again, got hooked on yet another series of Big Brother, fitted a bath and made fresh steps towards The Plan.

The blog had to come off my site because I feared it may hinder my job-hunting. It contains some quite forthright opinions on such matters as posters in train stations and I couldn’t let these, or my droolings over the band Clutch, stop me escaping ‘the Carnaby Street job’. Things got so bad that I just quit the job anyway thinking I could wander into a life of freelance-plenty. I would only have to work 2 weeks of the year to earn 4 times the average UK salary. I could stagger in and out of various companies without a care in the world counting the minutes to my next holiday.

Of course what actually happened was that I ended up with no money after a week of no work and took the first crappy full-time position I was offered. This was well-paid, but involved working in a proper office, in a proper office block, with lots of people who thought dressing down for Friday was wearing a jumper over their shirt and tie. It couldn’t last. Luckily I was saved from corporate hell by Or Media, a little company in Covent Garden. Four weeks in and it feels like home.

Home on the other hand feels like some sort of external storage area for Screwfix.com. Intent on escaping from the ‘Well and our increasingly infuriating noisy neighbours, we have begun a redevelopment that we should have started three years ago when we moved here.

Sevenoaks is calling.

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