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01/06/2015

Rise With the Lark, Sleep With the Smugness of Someone Who Gets Their Shit Done

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Government and Politics, June 2015, Paywall

Fifa, football, I told you sport was a bad idea, Indifferent Ignorance, Nick Clegg
26/05/2015

Audioblog: Ireland & Eurovision

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LGBT, May 2015, Music, Paywall, THE WORLD *head in hands*, TV

civil rights, Eurovision, football, Harvey Milk, Harvey Milk Day, Ikea, Indifferent Ignorance, Irish referendum, SoundCloud
03/03/2015

Such a Beautiful Game…

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Indifferent Ignorance, March 2015, Newspapers, Paywall, Sport

2022 Word Cup, Fifa, football, Indifferent Ignorance, Qatar, The Six O’Clock News
24/10/2014

A Question About Gap Years

It’s raining hard so I’ve sought shelter in a cafe with Greek-dubbed Spongebob on the telly, which is even less sensical than US-English Spongebob. If/when the rain stops I will go ‘back to work’ ie plotting world domination via Etsy and scratching away at a fan fiction commission. It’s a nice life, even if listening… Continue reading

Holidays, October 2014, Zakynthos

‘Spongebob’, Etsy, football, gap years, Inifferent Ignorance, rain

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football

Rise With the Lark, Sleep With the Smugness of Someone Who Gets Their Shit Done

Audioblog: Ireland & Eurovision

Such a Beautiful Game…

A Question About Gap Years