Mike Smith (Illustrator)

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August 23, 2012 – 10:53 am

By Mike | Tagged bread making, caz, conversation, cow, diary, eating, felicity kendal, houmous, hummus, indecisive, insecurity, lucky, married, mike, pen, sarcasm, soup, wife, woman | Comments (4)

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August 13, 2012 – 10:09 am

By Mike | Tagged ageing, bother, care, diary, dither, getting old, hell, matching, mike, monologue, musing, odd, older, pairs, ruffle, socks, sure sign, thinking, worrying, young | Comments (2)

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August 9, 2012 – 11:28 am

By Mike | Tagged biscuit, caz, children, demeaning, diary, do, don't, fridge, hob-nobs, idiot, internet, mike, pathetic, sleight of hand, sneak, stash, steal, theft, thin, toilet, white chocolate | Comments (9)

Quick thanks

August 6, 2012 – 8:08 pm

Just got back from holiday to find a wonderful book about bread sitting on my doorstep, sent by the mysterious Dot, a kind reader of this blog. One of the things I was particularly keen to read in the book was a rant on the horrors of the mass-produced loaf. I like a good rant [...]

By Mike | Tagged book, bookshank, bread, dot, note, thanks, wish list | Comments (1)

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July 26, 2012 – 10:45 am

By Mike | Tagged bike, cambridge, campaigner, city council, cooking, death, diary, died, elections, encounters, environmentalist, full sail, galleon, green party, margaret wright, moon, night, obituary, ocean, pain, pass, sausages, sea, ships, shout, tribute | Comments (1)

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July 19, 2012 – 9:03 am

By Mike | Tagged atlas, brackley, britain, car, caz, chickens, chuckle brothers, diary, drive, google, gps, hens, iPhone, lost, map, mike, missing, northampton, page, roads, satnav, suburbs, uk | Comments Off

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July 12, 2012 – 9:12 am

By Mike | Tagged butter, calm down, caz, cheese, children, condoms, crying, daddy, diary, dory, fridge, fruit, hey, kicking, kids, lentils, mike, milk, potatoes, sarcasm, shopping list, story, wah, yoghurt | Comments (4)

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July 6, 2012 – 7:10 am

By Mike | Tagged cake, caz, children, diamond jubilee, diary, eat, flag, food, greedy, kids, mike, music, party, pass-the-parcel, pram, push, road, sausage rolls, union jack | Comments (1)

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July 3, 2012 – 10:16 am

By Mike | Tagged achievement, apollo, biplane, capsule, car, children, diary, earth, emotional, fatherhood, globe, klein bottle, light, london, meeting, mike, moon rock, plane, science museum, spitfire, steam engine | Comments (4)

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June 22, 2012 – 10:46 am

By Mike | Tagged amazed, bottles, brew, brush, champagne, concoction, cooking, cordial, delicious, diary, elderflower fizz, exploding, farmer, fizzy, funnel, good, hospital, landowner, lemon, mike, prosecute, recipe, steep, sugar, toilet, trespass, water, wild | Comments (7)

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June 14, 2012 – 7:38 am

By Mike | Tagged argument, big bang, black hole, born, caz, diary, dog, eddie, getting on my nerves, irritated, joke, jude, laptop, love you, mike, take care, walking, woke up | Comments (1)

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June 7, 2012 – 7:42 am

By Mike | Tagged amma, bent, caz, clunk, diary, diy, hammer, hammering, man, mike, nails, son, vindictive, woman, wood | Comments (3)