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Living The Dream
Living The Dream? I was preparing a presentation for a school assembly not long before I retired. Teaching had been only one of over fifty skill sets...
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Diamond at doorstep
Diamond at doorstep “Hey Madam Manorama, Pal Laxmidhar! Pray, we for your diamond jubilee only, a step further while congratulating you on your GJ...
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Silas Nash Book 1: Hush Hush Honeysuckle: Chapter 9 ( b)
It was tough for Max to make friends when he was boarding at a private school. Jon and Bobby still called him a posh git at every opportunity, but...
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O'Connorgrots Grammar School
At O’Connorgrots Grammar School, the students were trying. Trying the patience of Mrs Walsh. These young ones were after all future elites of the...
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We
Umm...you all know I hate explaining things. Image PD
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Cathedral of Cologne (Koln)
Saturday, 6/17/23- Northern Netherlands, on the Rhine Overnight, the Vali had motored up the Rhine River. We were approaching Cologne (Koln) Germany...
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Zombie! (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 25)
In which all Frankie wants is a nice lie down whilst everyone else seems to be obsessed with comparing bladder sizes!
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They aren’t missing!
They used to think that soon they‘d find a ‘missing link’ between mankind and apes; they drew imaginative posture and facial shapes – all from discovered tooth – excitement big, – then found to be the tooth of a pig! Then …
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11.1 Bikers
Five-thirty, he parked near the Sultan Park by the west wall in the hope of meeting Bilqis Adam. A bunch of girls posed by the SES gate. One of them...
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Miss Australia 1978 – Part Four of Four
Kev sat down on my settee with a beer from my fridge to watch the racing results on my television. Jim in Glasgow had paid for all of these things,...
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Silas Nash Book 1: Hush Hush Honeysuckle: Chapter Nine (a)
Dogs shouldn’t be on beds. Tell that to Mia, who, in the space of hours, captivated Max. If he could give her a good home for the rest of her life,...
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Miss Australia 1978 – Part Three of Four
From the cockpit, Captain Australia (the world’s first marsupial superhero) announced that we would be landing in Naples, Muscat, Bombay, Singapore...
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1:4:2 Tarthesis (Part 2)
Lore waited with Char on the cargo bay ramp. They were so tense but were fighting themselves not to show it. Eventually, Sky joined them. The path...
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Ebsen
Buddy Ebsen lost his life twenty years ago. He guest-starred on The Andy Griffith Show. Jed Clampett was a character who he loved to portray. After...
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Goatie 17
Graham Greene,’ she said. ‘He’s one of you, too.’ ‘I thought yeh said, yeh didnae know if I hud epilepsy,’ I replied. ‘Noo, yer piling famous guys on...
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Miss Australia 1978 – Part Two of Four
Unfortunately, I didn’t have my mobile phone with me because at that stage of the rampant global advance in technology they had yet to be invented,...
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10.3 Hakra Fair
Rainy days and flooded roads. His half-brother returned from the United Kingdom after completing a BA in Architecture. He brought a Sony hi-fi system...
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The Windmills of Kinderdijk Netherlands
Friday, June 16 th , 2023 Kinderdijk, Netherlands We were up by 4 A.M. We enjoyed coffee and a wonderful chocolate muffin on our balcony. We had...
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Waiting for the Flyers. Part15: visiting Jess's domain.
Passing the pillars we found ourselves under overhanging branches of ancient lime trees. A row of them on each side of the drive stretched ahead...
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Silas Nash Book 1: Hush Hush Honeysuckle Chapter 8
The next morning, Max went into the office to sort out what was going to happen now that Henry was dead. It was bloody inconvenient and a blight on...
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