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Last weekend we went on our first camping trip. As Wills and Kate were getting married, here, in UK, we were kindly given the day off to celebrate, and we decided to celebrate by skipping the wedding and pitching up in a field in the Lakes.

The trip up went surprisingly well, usually on bank holidays the motorways are crammed with cars but, perhaps because of the wedding, our trip was relatively traffic free. Pretty soon we were surrounded by the green, crumpled landscape, majestic ...

Accepted to Humber for September. Cheating the system is awesome. Note: You don't need to finish high school to get a post-secondary education!

I’ve been down to the allotment today, and I took my wife’s portable DAB radio. It’s great, though it doesn’t work at our house as it’s a signal dead zone. (So my wife can’t use it!). It works everywhere else though, so I duly tuned in to Planet Rock.

I like rock music, though I was never a rocker, have never ridden a motorbike, I’ve never been wanted nor have I worn black leather. (I did once have a brown leather jacket that a friend gave ...

I can trace most of my joys, pensive moments, and profound decisions to a body of water: I asked my wife to marry me as we sat beside a lake in a state park. I spent hours skippin' stones along the length of the "crick" back home. I know the local waterways as I know the road to work.

Here are some fragments water and me: beers with my brother and a mess of rainbows on a stringer beside us; walking on the frozen reservoir and the terrifying thrill of hearing the ice crack ...