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Category: Pause for Thought

Boots, 16.10.20

On October 16, 2020October 25, 2020 By Jim HarrisIn Amol Rajan, Breakfast, Pause for Thought1 Comment

Just before my fifteenth birthday, I went to America with the Scouts. We were supposed to go to Iran for the World Jamboree but they had a revolution instead and so we ended up in Fort Worth, Texas.  Like you do. It was a world of hitherto unknown pleasures.  Baseball. Tacos. Rodeos.  And there was …

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Caravan, 09.10.20

On October 9, 2020October 17, 2021 By Jim HarrisIn Breakfast, Pause for Thought, Zoe Ball

A couple of weeks ago, for a miniature holiday, my partner Susie and I went to stay in a caravan at Ringstead Bay in Dorset, lent to us by my kind friend Vickey. It poured on the way down and when we stopped, mid-afternoon, at Tolpuddle, to pay homage to the Tolpuddle Martyrs, transported to …

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Collapse, 18.8.20

On August 18, 2020September 8, 2020 By Jim HarrisIn Breakfast, Pause for Thought, Zoe Ball

A few months ago, a crack appeared in the ceiling at the bottom of our stairs.  It was not a big crack and so, obviously, I did the Obvious Thing. I ignored it. Because that always works. Then, a few weeks ago, the crack started to widen. A Lot. And as it widened, the ceiling …

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Sober, 3.7.20

On July 3, 2020September 7, 2020 By Jim HarrisIn Amol Rajan, Breakfast, Pause for Thought

These last few months have been a time for sober reflection. By this, I don’t mean that I stare mournfully in the mirror every morning wondering why running versus beer is always a win for beer (although I do). Nor do I mean that over the past few months I have always been sober (for …

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Church, 26.6.20

On June 26, 2020September 6, 2020 By Jim HarrisIn Breakfast, Pause for Thought, Zoe Ball

After my daughter Esther came back from Glastonbury last year, we went for a drink and she told me about her weekend. But because Esther is supernaturally organized, this did not mean stumbling through hazy recollections of half-remembered acts, but rather a list, compiled in real time, of everything she and her friends had seen, …

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Egg, 19.6.20

On June 19, 2020September 5, 2020 By Jim HarrisIn Breakfast, Pause for Thought, Zoe Ball

I was replanting my window boxes at the weekend.  The pansies that had flourished in recent months had become leggy, so I pulled them out, added some fresh compost and started to plant the marigolds. Which is when I found the egg.  Yes. The egg. As I parted the soil, there, nestled deep in the …

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Small, 5.6.20

On June 5, 2020August 23, 2020 By Jim HarrisIn Breakfast, Pause for Thought, Zoe Ball

In all the strangeness of the last few weeks, it has taken me a surprisingly long time to realise that I have, in effect, been set free. I am furloughed from my job; I am not on the bus to Oxford; I am not obliged to be anywhere, to do anything or to talk to …

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Annoyed, 26.3.20

On March 26, 2020August 23, 2020 By Jim HarrisIn Breakfast, Pause for Thought, Zoe Ball

For a long time now, I have hoarded toothpaste. By this, I don’t mean that in these straitened times I have panic-bought huge stocks hoping to make a killing on the dental hygiene black market. Rather, I have kept my own tube of toothpaste hidden away in the bathroom cupboard, so I don’t have to …

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Lies, 17.3.20

On March 17, 2020August 23, 2020 By Jim HarrisIn Breakfast, Pause for Thought, Zoe Ball

I once told the following untruth. During a rambling conversation about football, I informed my boys that Queens Park Rangers FC was founded in by a group of west London pig butchers by appointment to the royal court, and that their original name was Queen’s Pork Rangers. Unbelievably, the tale passed muster. Now this is …

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Perspective, 13.3.20

On March 13, 2020August 22, 2020 By Jim HarrisIn Breakfast, Pause for Thought, Zoe Ball

So, last week water started dripping through a light fitting in my kitchen ceiling. Now let me be clear: this was not flooding. Flooding is a whole other universe of properly terrible. This was just an annoyance. But it was very, very annoying indeed. Naturally, therefore, I behaved as any rational person would, faced with …

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