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Brutal rugby

Sounds innocuous enough. What those phrases mean though, is brutal. Picture a big strong player. 100 Kg+ running hard and fast towards a defender. The defender, of similar size, is intent on launching himself at the attacker with sufficient ferocity to reverse his momentum.
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Writer’s Block

For the sake of completeness, it was a game of cricket between New Zealand and England that lasted a full five days, and involved slips in the slips, pulls, hooks, drives and cuts and a fair amount of short legs and silly mid-offs.
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Heavy Duty

Yesterday, over on Nero’s Notes, I was getting all Heavy Duty [https://www.nerosnotes.co.uk/blogs/news/heavy-duty-by-field-notes].
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Rules? For Fools.

As lockdown eases here in the Eastern-Med, I finally fell foul of the rules. I have been sent to a large supermarket, ten minutes or so further away than our usual store. The reason? Pasta. The larger shop has better brands of pasta. One of the small prices that one
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Giveaway Winners

Last week, I ran a giveaway for subscribers – and the winners were… Martin Seddon and Sarah Cundy. Sarah – let me have a mailing address, and I’ll get your copy of Aegyir Rises into the post for you. Amanda’s website [https://amandafleet.co.uk]
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Giveaway

It’s about time that I did a giveaway. Before that though, some shameless self-promotion. You may know that I co-host a podcast, 1857 [https://www.1857.co.uk]. I have started appearing in another. Shelflifesitcom [https://www.shelflifesit.com/] The following excerpt was written by Harry Marks, producer, director,
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Meditation

My meditation begins, “Welcome to the Daily Calm…” The soothing voice comes from my iPhone. Usually, just after lunch. Full of food, I descend to my office, turn off podcasts and music and sit in my easy chair. Tamara Levitt [https://www.tamaralevitt.com] utters the words and guides me
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Living the Dream - 64. Camino IV Part II

Camino IV Part II is brought to you by the magic of the internet. This post, and every post this week, has published while I am walking in Northern Spain. Last Walking Day Today, Friday, is our last walking day on this trip. If everything has gone to plan, then
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