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A Writing Exercise

Write what you know. What do I know? I made a list as follows:


1)      Cycling (only the actual moving part, not the mechanical aspects like repairing, or health and fitness and nutrition)
2)      Dogs (but again, only the experiential aspects of owning one – obligation, responsibility, tidying up etc)
3)      Babies (again with the tidying up and also general pulling-of-faces-to-entertain – although have just become proficient at swing-pushing)
4)      Pub football talk (no real understanding, just amassing huge amounts of random trivia and statistics to bedazzle other pundits with similar goals)
5)      Reading (often without understanding – inhabiting a role as a consumer of books)
6)      There is no number 6. Number 6 submerged beneath the rising tide of bleakness.

As exercises go I have had more success losing weight with Suzanne Somers’ Thighmaster ™

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