tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43357049094785500162011-10-18T14:08:01.430+01:00ALl the accumulated wisdom of the Wicked Uncle site where we share with you our insights on How to Choose Presents for Tinies, How to be a Better Uncle, How to Address an Archbishop, How Not to Worry about Xmas and other vital information. In the process we would also like you to buy lots of stuff and send it to darling nieces, nephews, godchildren, grandchildren or may be even your own children. If we do something wrong, please let us know. We will definitely put it right.The Wicked Uncle Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02507519733234500522noreply@blogger.comBlogger591100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335704909478550016.post-42574267765847038522011-10-18T14:06:00.001+01:002011-10-18T14:08:01.450+01:00

How to encourage gratitude?In far off days, before the founders of Wicked Uncle were even thought of, Molesworth roamed his school misbehaving and thinking of whizzy new concepts. He was responsible for the invention of the super rapid, pre-filled thank you card for sending to aging relatives who had done the right thing at birthday times by sending super atomic blasters or postal orders for 10

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The big question - Are we actually as cool as we think we are ?When you look in the mirror and sing along to "I'm gorgeous", do you ever have the sneaking feeling that maybe you are not as cool as you would like to be ? Do all your various audiences "get" your unique and wonderful characteristics ? More to the point, are you down with the kids ? When your name is mentioned to the little people

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Easter in the Sunshine It is of course perpetual Summer in Wicked Uncle HQ, but now the sun is shining outside as well ! And nobody is doing any work. Unfortunately this includes the teachers so you may well have inherited the care of some small people.Characteristics of small people: require endless interaction, demand stories, eat strange food, watch really bizarre TV programmes (talking pigs,

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Hands up if you Believe in FairiesToday is Fairy Day when we feature cool stuff for girls who don't like rough boys' toys. The female equivalent of the r/c helicopter is the Flitter Fairy. These very pretty fairies flit around in the air hovering around you in Tinkerbelle style obeying your every command. When you wave your hand the fairy moves to your command. (It is the ethereal equivalent of

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Dave is a huge hit in the pub and on Saturday raised £200 for the British Legion Poppy appeal. And all the girls wanted to pat him.Hopefully more Daves are coming very soon so you can get your own new friend - and bnuy one for your niece / nephew as well of course. Dave the Monkey - guaranteed to be more interesting than some of your friends. (Not the really cool ones who work in Baghdad

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Well the prediction was right - we did sell out. We do have more coming, so if you did not get your Dave, do send us an email and we will notify as soon as they come in - hopefully middle of next week. PS Dave is great. Slightly unfortunate name, but he is a very happy little fellow.

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Dave - your New Best FriendDave The Monkey is the Best Thing EVER !!! You need to buy one now - today - this minute, before we run out. Dave is a very appealing black and white squirrel monkey who sits on your shoulder and interacts with everybody you meet. He waves, shakes hands, does a high five, laughs, nods and shakes his head, goes mental and burps on command. He also does botty burps which

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Dear World, So far we have 15 schools and 1 hospital signed up to our Fund Raising scheme. The idea is that your school PTA contacts us and we set up a Voucher code. They tell everyone who is likely to buy a present for a kid to use us - ideally that will be the grandparents, the uncles, aunts and godparents. Every time a new customer comes on board and uses that voucher code to identify the

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Brilliant Fund Raising IdeaAll school Parent Teacher Associations are always trying to raise money to buy Art teachers, Mandarin lessons, extra cellos etc. We at Wicked Uncle have a brilliant plan which we have just implemented with our first primary school in Battersea. It works like this: 1. The School PTA get in touch with us. We create a voucher specially for their school. 2. They tell the

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Like James Bond only CooolerAs we all know James Bond is a really cool secret agent - but just too 20th Century. Today's kid deserves something better, so we have tooled up with the latest Spy Gear. These are what to give the aspiring SIS man/woman: Instead of an Omega Divemaster, we have the Spy Watch with 8 functions including a night vision light, a motion alarm, a pop up sight with cross

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Part of the Wicked Uncle series on How to be a Better Uncle (or even better aunt).1. Become an Astronaut, or possibly a Formula 1 racing driver. 2. Have a constant fund of stories to tell small people (preferably not involving things their mothers would disapprove of. Like vampires.) 3. Take them to really cool places on days out. 4. Remember their birthdays..... We can't help you with 1., as for

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Summertime parties are fun. Sun shines, garden is green, Pimms is cool, you are wearing your smartest clothes set off by golden tan derived from expensive holiday, but what about the kids ? How do you ensure that the little darlings are adequately accessorised ? You go to the Wicked Uncle website and you order a super cool costume to dress them up in. If you don't own any kids yourself, you can

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Everybody wants to have fairies in the bottom of their garden. This is how to do it. Fill your garden with largish toadstools or invest small amount of hard earned cash in Flitter Fairies - amazingly clever remote controlled fairies that look as if they are operating independently. The trick is in the incredibly thin, almost invisible pixie thread that connects the controller to the fairy. It is

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How to be a Hunter Gatherer Civilisation is barely 10,000 years old, but we were Hunter Gatherers for half a billennium. And monkeys before that.So do we think all toys should be educational, non-competitive, girly sharing stuff or should we tap into that rich seam of human myth and pre-history evidenced by all the little boys who pick up sticks and shoot at each other ? The correct Wicked Uncle

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Give a Guinea Pig - How Cool is That ? The humble Guinea Pig is making a comeback and we at Wicked Uncle are now selling them on an experimental basis.* You could give the birthday kid a pair of Remote Controlled Battle Tanks - incredibly cool at £49.95, or if it is female a really smart Corolle doll, however for a mere £4.95 you could light up their little faces with a genuine Guinea Pig.

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Today we launch the Wicked Uncle Club - a completely automated present service. Normally we send you a birthday reminder, you visit the website, click on Boy Age 6 etc and choose something. Then you have to decide on gift wrapping, card, message. All this takes time when you could be doing something much more fun. Our solution: visit the Club page, decide how much (max.) you want to spend on

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General Election ? Apparently there is a General Election happening. And a local election, so everyone gets to vote twice. In this febrile and exciting atmosphere, we give you a third vote ! We want to know which is the coolest Wicked Uncle present. Send your vote in to us and we will enter you into a draw to win whatever it is you have voted for. Only one person can win, but then that works for

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We love our customers and would like to say thank you for buying from us in the past. And we would like to ask for your help..... Wicked Uncle is a small, eclectic, entrepreneurially run company. We would like to be a huge, eclectic, mega corporation with massive sales and an airline, a record label, a clothing brand and a bank. Possibly a train service, but we are not sure of that. In order to

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Poo in a Box ?Well what else did you expect from a site called Wicked Uncle ? Yes, it does what it says on the tin. Each box contains a piece of rhino, elephant or reindeer poo which contains a seed to grow a nice eco friendly plant. Poo in a Box was one of our most popular items before Christmas and we have just got it back in stock as world poo supplies slowly reach their former level. This

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At Wicked Uncle, the kids' gift site where you buy birthday presents for darling little ones, we have been adding stacks of new stuff. We are now way better for kids 0 - 2 and have put some great new toys in every category. We have also got somebrilliant books - like "How to be a Viking" and "How to be a Knight". (There are also girly versions about being a ballerina/princess).How we work: 1.

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It is the end of January - the time when your tax return, VAT, accounts are all due. When you have to pay all your bills and the illusion of large amounts of cash in the bank account melts away into the sands of a thousand payables. Tough time to be an entrepreneur. Never give up alcohol in January - it is the worst time.I tihnk you are also allowed to put those improving resolutions on hold

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Wicked Uncle team has been busy in January doing all the dull stuff - stock, accounts, VAT, bill payments. It is like the hangover after a great party. BTW never give up alcohol in January - this is the time you really need it with the snow really piling up outside and I wish I didn't have to leave here, baby. Anyway you know how the rest of the song goes. Trouble is in January you don't even get

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Get stuff for Small People in time for Xmas Wicked Uncle is on time and shipping orders with a great selection of Xmas presents for children from 0 - 12. Everything goes first class so it should get there next day or the day after. Buy over the weekend and it will reach the post in time. Then it is up to the Royal Mail, but they are usually pretty good. So if you haven't yet bought a present for

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But soon you may be wringing your hands as Christmas accelerates towards us...... Buying presents for kids is tough. Who knows what they are into? Will they like it ? Why is this brightly coloured bit of plastic with Ben 10 better than the other one with Transformers on it ? Why can you never find a shop assistant when you need one ? Will Tiny Tim get his present in time ? What we do at Wicked

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Newsflash - Turkeys vote decisively against Christmas !!!!! Last night Christmas celebrations were in doubt as turkeys voted decisively against the season of goodwill. Following the vote, Government ministers went into emergency session as turkey representatives insisted that the Human Rights Act should apply to them too. Recent EU initiatives to expand membership to non-Europeans has been

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No rush - Christmas not here yet Relax - Christmas is weeks away. They only switched the lights on in Trafalgar Square yesterday and that means there are at least 21 days until Christmas morning and little Johnny is crying his eyes out because you forgot to buy him a present. Anyway a little disappointment now and again is probably good for him. If however, you have a less Empire building

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In the third of our occasional series on etiquette, we give you the rules. Follow these and you will never go wrong. 1. Remember birthday - tough one. Christmas is so much easier as it is advertised. And they put strings of lights all over the place to remind you. 2. Buy a present - easy to forget this small but vital step. 3. Choose present carefully, based on sex of child (usually known - if

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Even though it is only Guy Fawkes Day, the C word is on its way thundering unstoppingly towards you. Before you know it, you will be coming out of a really good lunch at 4.30 (pm hopefully) on the 16th of December and suddenly realising that you haven't bought any Christmas presents yet. Do you want to be the cool uncle (Well Wicked) who has already bought really neat presents for his darling

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Love your postman ? Unfashionable as it is, we love the Royal Mail. They deliver our stuff and do this brilliant service where they visit every house in the country six days a week. The bad news is that there is a strike on, but they will get back to normal very fast. In the meantime try to give us a few more days to get your presents delivered. They will get there. That nice Mr Mandelson isn't

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How to address an Archbishop ? Last time we told you about Wicked Uncle's Middle Class presents. Since then we have become featured on The Debrett's Guide Luxury Shopping list for very top people indeed. Having risen massively in the social order, we thought we would pass on a couple of tips. So the correct address is Dear Archbishop or Dear Lord Archbishop if writing and feeling unctuous, but

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Wicked Uncle is definitely the place to buy a Toad. However our recent shipment got held up at Customs. Apparently there is some sort of animal rights issue. But all is not lost. To make sure that the princess in your life is not left out, we can do a deal on some smart silver jewellery. We bought some stuff that was a bit grown up (no bad thing) and a bit expensive. Since it is really cool - we

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Free Beer for Beardies - Presents for KidsAs well as selling lots of cool gifts for kids (the well-behaved ones anyway), we see Wicked Uncle as a social service. Hence when we came across a really brilliant idea of Internet Real Ale / Real Live Beer of massively esoteric origins, we asked if we could get some free for our deserving newsletter readers. There is of course no such thing as totally

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The best PC present for Summer - and even boys like it The Butterfly Pavilion - £33.00 was one of our best-selling ideas from last summer. This is the ideal PC present and all kids really like it. Also very popular with their mothers, teachers and any passing social workers. What you get is a kit to grow your own butterflies. It comes with a mini-habitat for butterflies, caterpillar food,

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I met a guy at Open Coffee meetup yesterday. He said he loved my brand and then proceeded to tell me that a large part of what I was doing (or better not doing) was pants. He sweetened it a bit by telling me that as a start up high energy, get things going type, I was probably psychologically unsuited to doing all the regular day to day stuff of optimising the website and the business a little

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This is a story recently written by the Storynory Team as a cautionary tale for all those new uncles out there. You can read it to kids if you happen to be babysitting and it's a lot more interesting than some of the kids' stories you might have to read otherwise. Sadly there are no monsters or really scary bits. (there are plenty of those on the main Storynory site, but we like this one). If you

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So what do girls really want ?A really cool Wicked Uncle doesn't just come up with great stuff for boys, he is also in touch with his feminine side (as if) and knows what stuff little girls want as well. Just in case you don't, here is the Wicked Uncle definitive answer and some cool stuff for girls. No longer will you be the guy who bought the mega dumper truck when she really wanted a doll. Key

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Storynory - brilliant ideaWe don't just exist to sell you stuff. We are in fact a valuable resource with interesting things to say and witty jokes. We have just found a fantastic website for uncles wishing to impress kids, so we thought we better tell you. Remember that sinking feeling when some wide-eyed kid goes "Tell me a story, Uncle Michael" and your mind goes blank. Or worse you think up

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How to ride the wild range....As you know we boldly go to new parts of the planet to seek out brilliant new kids' presents. We now proudly announce the Hobbyhorse without a Stick !This brilliant new concept, known descriptively as My Riding Pony - £24.99 has been pioneered in the Pampas of Devon and is the Next Big Thing. What is the problem with the traditional Hobby Horse ? Yes, it is the stick

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Wicked Uncle wants you to spread a little happiness....In the long run we are all sub-optimally re-engineered. In the meantime, despite the credit crunch, there are hordes of eager little people relying on us to remember their birthdays. And even if it is not a birthday, we can also get extra street cred and spread a little happiness by spontaneous present giving. (Well we would support this,

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The Remote Controlled Tarantula is back.........Today Wicked Uncle announces the Return of the R/C Tarantula. One of our most popular items, this is a large, remote controlled, highly realistic, endorsed by the Natural History Museum, cosmically cool and very scary Spider. Like Spiderman but without the charm. Or the man bit. Definitely guaranteed to scare girls and entertain boys. Since this is

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Scary Halloween Stuff, Today is Halloween - known also as the Fiesta del Dia des Muertos which sounds a lot scarier. On this festive occasion when ghosts walk the night and monsters lurk in the cupboards (definitely in that big scary wardrobe), Wicked Uncle would like to showcase its collection of toy guns / serious heat to stick under the bed and frighten off any scary monsters. No PC

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Dear Reader,We have previously looked at how the sophisticated individual would deal with the arrival of a friend's new baby. Today we are looking at Christenings.Of course some people are a bit strange and want to hold alternative Welcome to the Planet ceremonies instead. In these cases, check whether alcohol is being served and if not, avoid. If forced to attend, bring something tasteful and

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New cool stuff on Wicked Uncle, We have just added some great new stuff to give to your deserving nieces and nephews including - amazing F14 Tomcat remote controlled fighter plane - 2' wingspan, 21" long and amazingly impressive. As flown by Tom Cruise in Top Gun. No 2 cool product is the HX265 Helicopter (snappy name, snappy product). Big,

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Today the Wicked Uncle tells you how to solve the tricky problem of what to do when a friend has a new baby. If you are female you can stop reading here as you know it already, but for our male readers here are the rules:1. Go and see it as soon as possible.2. Find out what sex it is asap and call it Him or Her. Never refer to it as It.3. Remark on how beautiful it is and how perfectly formed the

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Apologies to my eager readers for my poor blogging over the last couple of weeks. It is July and the sun has been shining which puts me in holiday mode.Much entertainment lately on the political front. Gordon Brown is definitely Macbeth, he has murdered sleep and isn't looking good. In a way I feel slightly sorry for him as he is undoubtedly a principled man. Unfortunately,like Macbeth, he turned

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Butterfly Pavilion - amazingly cool and Nature 1.0 from Wicked Uncle, Today we bring you the Butterfly Pavilion as featured in the Daily Telegraph and National Geographic and rated to be one of the top children's presents ever. Obtainable of course from the Wicked Uncle cool gifts for kids website.The concept is that you receive a complete kit

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Having mega frustrations right now over dealing with wretched lawyers. A friend died in a traffic accident a year ago in the middle of a very messy divorce. The lawyers have just submitted an "interim" bill for some huge amount of money. It is of course completely obfuscated. There are Schedules referring to Matter 1 and Matter 2 and details of how many minutes/hours have been spent at £210 per

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In the last email to celebrate the imminent victory of Spain in Euro 08, we offered a £50 Wicked Uncle voucher to the avid reader who could quote the first line of Don Quixote. Today in honour of Rafael Nadal winning Wimbledon, Wicked Uncle offers you another Spanish oriented challenge. We will give two of our fantastic Firewheel fully auto rubber band guns to whoever can both a. best quote

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Had an excellent response to the earlier offer of a £50 voucher to the first person to quote correctly the first line of Don Quixote - if Spain win on Sunday. It is good to know our email list has sophisticated readers. Of course if Spain don't win Euro 2008, then we will have to rerun the competition with a Russian or German theme. But I think we should make it harder. First line of Ivan

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Today the Wicked Uncle fantastic present service for kids takes time out to tell you how to solve the tricky problem of who to support when you want both teams to lose. Given the fact it is Euro 2008 and we are not in it, we probably want ALL teams to lose. Sadly that isn't going to happen.The good news is that we have been saved all the heartache of watching England crash out in the Quarter

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Got a great sale yesterday over the phone. Sold a red castle and two sets of knights. This is great - this is exactly what we are about - proper boys' toys. I can heartily recommend this lot because Small Person (3 1/2) has exactly the same and loves it. No girlie toys here at Wicked Uncle ! (except for girls of course......)

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And now for politics. GB has won his vote to turn the home of democracy and the mother of parliaments into yet another over mighty centralised state trampling on its citizens' rights. Killingly funny interview on Today where DUP spokesman totally and righteously denied extracting concessions from the government, but was positively salivating about the vote being won by exactly the 9 votes the DUP

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The PR company have come up with a result - a little teeny piece in the Daily Telegraph magazine about the Butterfly Pavilion. This is a very cunning "grow your own butterfly set" which includes a voucher for you to send away for 10 caterpillars, instructions on how to feed and care for them and then how to turn them into butterflies. You then have them flying triumphantly around your butterfly

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After a week away, we re-enter normality and the world of online marketing. How to get the website noticed ? In dotcom 1.0 there was a US company who fired hamsters from a cannon across the East River. How cool is that ? Unfortunately I cannot remember their name which is a real pity and a sad indictment of unrelated advertising stunts. Personally I think we could take it over for Wicked Uncle as

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Just back in the office after a week away on the Help for Heroes Big Battlefield Bike Ride. H4H is raising cash for Headley Court, the armed forces rehabilitation centre, to build them a new gym and pool. Headley Court is where you go after a. being blown up b. being operated on. It's run by lots of highly motivated guys who fix people up with artificial arms and legs in a really positive

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Watched the footie last night at a friend's house. Naturally I was supporting Chelsea opting for Southern Poofs vs Northern Gits and as I used to live there, I didn't have much choice. Pretty dull game as it happened and then John Terry blew it by not getting someone else to take the penalty. The key question is why is Ronaldo such a cheat when he is such a brilliant player anyway ?Football is a

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Time to compose another marketing email to my eternally ungrateful recipient list. Here I am slaving over a hot computer to give them well crafted, entertaining and doubtless highly relevant information and do they read it ? Do they hell. Occasionally I throw in a little subversive bit at the end just to test the audience. To be fair sometimes it is spotted so they are not all ungrateful. If youy

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It is about the perils and trials of running a new start up business. Elation, despair, more despair, some elation. It might have some useful lessons on start ups ie things to avoid. Smart people of course are said to learn from the mistakes of others. But start up people probably need to make the mistakes themselves anyway. Either because they are so arrogant they think it won't work out like

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This is it - I have finally cracked and started blogging. I could address this to dear Diary but let's admit that we are not blogging our little hearts out in secret, confiding our deepest hopes and fears to the comfort of eternal privacy - we are all shameless self publicists secretly hoping for a book deal.Today yet again I swing between elation and despair. Actually despair is currently

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