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The first year I found really quite lonely and quite hard. It was awful. I was in this horrible hotel crying my eyes out for about two days.


Alastair Humphreys

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ALASTAIR CAMPBELL I think I'm highly loveable.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond cove...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL I had a happy childhood.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL All I can say for certain is that, beneath the scrambled chaos of my memories, I feel a driving impe...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS When Clive announced the team to play Southland on Tuesday, it was a rare occasion where players wer...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL Enslavement can come in many guises and the denial of knowledge is one such tragic example inflicted...
ALASTAIR R. AGUTTER Love can come from enduring ones life journey, where from such a venture, you will learn compassion ...
ALASTAIR R. AGUTTER The Arts, Hobbies, Interests and Pastimes, have served as a measurement of a civilized society over ...
ALASTAIR R. AGUTTER