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They Can Only Do Harm
In the Free World the cost of living is going up at an alarming rate.
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I Feel Like I’m Fixing to Tie-Dye My Raggy Socks
The second half of my description of my experiences of the first month of the year in which I last used leva banknotes to pay for my weekly shop. The one hundred words per day rule applies, as usual.
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I’ve Got a Gal in Tiramisu
The first half of my description of my experiences of the first month of the year in which I first used euro banknotes to pay for my weekly shop. The one hundred words per day rule applies, as usual.
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A Right Pen and Ink
A job’s always a lot easier when you’ve got the right kit.
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How to Make Money with a Broken Spirograph
Oh what a month! Late December back in ’25. My experiences of it described at the going rate of one hundred words per day.
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Stories
Posted on Sun, 01 Feb 2026
Good on you for doing that Kat. It saddens me to think that so many wonderful stories of people I've known have been lost when they passed away, especially considering how different the times were that they lived through.
If I was the boss...
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Philtrum fun
Posted on Sun, 01 Feb 2026
Righto IPFN. That's sound advice. I wonder if Elon Musk ever reads this. Have I written anything that requires editing?
I love it when body parts have ambiguous names that people are sometimes nervous about mentioning. It's so easy to get...
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Embarking
Posted on Thu, 29 Jan 2026
Hiya Jenny.
I really like this bit...
embarking
on season's journey into spring,
with swiftness, rapid as a feline's
natural shift.
It's what I'm...
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Nuns
Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2026
The lack of sex education is certainly a major contributing factor to the problem. As you say, it was good that the unmarried mothers at least had the likes of Nazareth House to go to, but that shouldn't have been necessary. Thankfully society...
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Emotions
Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2026
Thanks Kat.
The families, the authorities and the church pulled the raw emotions of these poor girls in all directions, and they were nearly always very young. With nobody to turn to it must have been absolute hell for them. There’s been a...
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Out of Innocence
Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2026
Such powerful words you have there Jane, and it’s a story the likes of which were repeated over and over again in Ireland. In the Catholic schools, young innocents (myself included) were told to love all those around them, but to teach them...
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Vengeance
Posted on Fri, 09 Jan 2026
When I hear people talking about hatred and revenge I usually remind them of these words of Mahatma Gandhi's...
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
And those people who cannot see this must already be...
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The L-word
Posted on Wed, 07 Jan 2026
Ah now Kat, I think there’s a strong possibility that Mr Spellchecker at Word didn’t consult Yorkshire linguists when he was embarking upon his corrective mission. That would explain t’ omission of t’ T-word as a doing word.
Long, long ago...
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Naughty Bron
Posted on Wed, 07 Jan 2026
A school trip to Manchester sounds interesting. We only ever went to Hadrian's Wall. I've spent more time at Housesteads than Hadrian himself did.
I thought Christmas was the C-word and that's why we don't mention it in our house. I once...
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Wild
Posted on Mon, 05 Jan 2026
I’d have thought that a salmon would be more likely to be involved in an accident in the wild than if living on a fish farm. I don’t suppose they get to choose.
A few weeks ago we put some leftover cooked fish in the fridge where we...
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