Your mom has started online dating. She's going on four or five dates a week, splitting her time among three men. She wants tell you more about it than you want to hear. For each man, describe in her words the details which make you uncomfortable.

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642 [Bit of a strange one this. My parents have been married since the late 60s. Brave heart, Tegan.] (1) He voted leave at the Brexi...

Write the first sentence of your obituary.

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642 "Stuart Ian Burns would often tell people he'd live forever and as with so many thing in his life, including that 2017 woul...

Christmas Links #1

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We Need to Move Christmas: "The worst thing about Christmas is that it makes winter longer, and unbearably so. Thanksgiving ends and...

Write the first sentence of a feature profile of you in a business magazine.

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642 Stuart Ian Burns is laughing, "At a certain point I even thought I might be able to monetise my blog. Three seconds later, m...

Write the first sentence of a feature profile of you in a men's fashion magazine.

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642 "If anyone asks, I always tell them I'm a bit 'man at Asda' " Burns grins as we relax onto the park bench where...

At a banquet in Kazakhstan, you are greeted as a guest of honor and served the traditional sheep's eyeball. Respectfully, you decline. You are then offered the sheep's tongue, instead. What's your excuse this time?

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642 "Pass the salt." [There's an unpleasant non-PC thread running through the book of which this is an example, redolent...

Write instructions for how to do something you haven't learned to do since you were very young (blow a bubblegum bubble, or swim, or tie your shoes, or make a paper airplane, or build a snowman, for instance.)

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642 How to hug. First think of someone you care about. Usually a parent, relative or friend. Make contact. With any luck they...

What three essential items would you take with you?

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642 Into exile? The Casio Bell Alarm which has woken me up almost every morning since the day after my eighteenth birthday, a photo of ...

Where would you choose to be exiled?

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642 Given everything which is happening in the UK right now, to be handed some kind of forced exile would probably be a relief.  I would...

You accidentally hit Reply-All - and everyone received an uncensored rant about your boss. Write the follow-up Reply All.

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642  "Sorry." [Editor's note: Let's have another look at this blog's rules with particular emphasis on number 2...

Describe your next kiss.

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642 Still no.

Osskah (Short Trips: Snapshots).

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Audio Gary Owen's Snapshot is redolent of the Parliament of Birds sequence in Paul Magrs' The Scarlett Empress. The TARDIS crash ...

Describe your most recent kiss.

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642 No.

Describe your first kiss.

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642 Deep breath. Fifteen years ago this was a mix of personal blog and links. If you have the relevant equipment to carry out a geophy...

Think about your weirdest family member and write on short scene that depicts why he or she is such an oddball.

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642 INT. BEDROOM. DAY. STUART, a slightly boring, non-descript man in his early forties is getting read for work. He puts his ha...

Write about a time you broke: A promise.

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642 "I promise I'll try." Ever since I saw this suggestion on the horizon, or rather page, I've been trying to think ...

Write about a time you broke: The law.

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642 This post contains some law breaking. The above photograph above wasn't posted with the permission of the copyright holder, I j...

Write about a time you broke: A heart.

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642 None that I know of, not really, and not on purpose. But that's the point isn't it? My relationship radar is so appalling ...

Remain in Light (Short Trips: Snapshots).

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Prose The main theme of Snapshots is how the Doctor affects the lives of the incidental people he meets, those who witness his heroism. R...

Write about a time you broke: A bone.

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642 Medically, I've been pretty lucky. Apart from this anxiety disorder which is dragging on, water infections, root canal and some...