A new blog site

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I've moved to this new site - gives a few more options. I have still resisted facebook, twitter and everything else (OK I do have a facebook page but hardly ever use it). I don't think the world really needs to know when I'm hungry or bored. Don't thinkI want to know when I'm hungry or bored. So this will try to remain reasonably untrivial (apart from the occasional reference to Bristol City - not that thst is at all trivial, you understand...)

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  1. Philip Ritchie12 January 2010 at 22:02

    Hi Graham, you are a hard man to keep track of! A great picture and I look forward to the posts.

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