L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 10th January 2018

L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 10th January 2018

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Today we explored personal blocks to listening, which are external or internal factors that interfere with a counsellor’s ability to be present in the room and utilise active listening. One internal block to listening that I feel could be pertinent to me, especially at this early stage of my counselling journey, is me wanting to give advice. So often in…

2016/2017

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2016 was pretty shit to be honest. I don't really know how it happened, or what happened, but I feel like I done something wrong or broke something but I don't know what it was and it has brought every bad decision I ever made back to haunt me. That is about as much sense as you'll get out of…

Friday update 25/7/14

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This week has gone very fast. That Asda have decided to move around the Music and Video department didn't help, as for the past three shifts I have felt that I have had too much to do and not enough time in which to do it in. Little baby Flipper Stewart is doing well - getting big now, fast! Noticeably…

Happy 25th Gameboy-day!

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So, the GameBoy is 25 years old today, what a way to make me feel old. I remember when I got my first Gameboy - although I can't pinpoint the exact dates, I roughly know the period. I had left school, and finished college, it must have been between me working at House of Toys in Debenhams and going back…
Holiday 2012: Day 4

Holiday 2012: Day 4

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Day four brought with it a visit to Blackgang Chine: A name that has resonated throughout my life. My Mum and Dad took David and me there years and years ago, not that I remember the place at all, just the name. Although I doubt it was as impressive back then as it is now, there are some aspects that…

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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By Phillip K. Dick You may have heard of the film "Blade Runner". It was based on this book, you know. I've seen Blade Runner, I'm sure I have, I must've done, my Dad loved it, but for the life of me I cannot remember it. I may have to track down a copy. This book is so full of…
MGM – Total Penetration

MGM – Total Penetration

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This is one of my earliest, and fondest gaming memories. One day, my Dad came and picked me up from school in his car. He very rarely did this. He told me he had something very special to show me when we got home - I'm sure he then took the long way home, as the car journey that should…
MGM – The most pointless thing I’ve ever won

MGM – The most pointless thing I’ve ever won

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I was once a keen Amiga enthusiast and I used to read Amiga Format. They ran competitions every month, but I never entered any. David and I were visiting our Father one weekend, and Amiga Format was running it's biggest competition ever, two whole pages of general knowledge questions - the prize was an Amiga 570 CD Drive. As there…

Reading list for June

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The Timewaster Letters The Return of The Timewaster Letters By Robin Cooper I'll include both of them in the same entry, as concept and content-wise they are exactly the same. I thought these two books were very funny. Basically, the books consist of correspondence between the (clearly mad) Robin Cooper and the various comapnies and hobby groups he sends his…