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Welcome to the first Mark Ellis blog - the first of its kind, with the aim to keep anyone who might be remotely interested in what's going on in.  Hopefully, it might be marginally interesting but only time will tell.

It will evolve and become fun (hopefully) and will add to the other bits of social media that I like to have a tinker with every now and again.

Hopefully the second one will be more entertaining............so don't get bored just yet !

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