Recently I have been trying to declutter. I have struggled to sell anything on eBay, due to the laziness of working out what I want to get rid of and how much I want for it.
Instead, I’ve decided to use FreeCycle.
The Colchester version is run on a yahoo groups website and basically, people just put [...]

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In preperation for the long cycle rides ahead, I bought a cycle computer.
A little disappointed it doesn’t pickup the internet, but it does tell you current speed, max speed, overall distance and a trip distance. It is a wired CatEye one as Kaff is having trouble with her wireless (or cordless as it was [...]

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If you don’t care why, but just want to give regardless, skip to the end
However…
Some of you may have experienced my previous fund raising techniques and I believe some of you didn’t think much effort is required to play Scaletrix for a day.
Anyway, I’ve decided that by doing a cycle ride from Colchester to Aylesbury [...]

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Last night, instead of getting ready for a session down the Fat Cat, Hospital Arms or Kings Head, I donned my baggy shorts and headed off to the local sports centre for a game of 5-a-side with a work colleague and his pub mates and a girl (oh how times have changed).
1 Hour later, after [...]

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I’ve had a new mobile for a couple of weeks now, SE W880i.
Well the main reason was to use it as a Walkman, what with it being a walkman phone, but now devling into the world of java, I can now log into my home computer using SSH and even better Remote desktop into my [...]

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Well we have a new addition to the family, a great big allotment. And soon will have a big pile of horse poo on it. Whoopie.
This is a venture between one of my chums and my goodself. What we have achieved so far is the following:
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