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Elaine
On either side the profiles lie You choose the ones which catch your eye The pretty girls get picked, not I - Elaine of Cardiff (Splott). For...
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Nessie Saves The Day
This is a true story, and readers, I was there… Every bank holiday at the end of May, the Gloucestershire village of South Cerney has a Duck Race, in...
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Twenty Minutes at the Village Bus Stop
I'm sitting in the village bus shelter. It's twenty minutes before the bus is due, but its arrival times are as fluid as today's pouring rain, and as...
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Autumn Haiku
Daylight disappears Cold nights and warm embraces Hide us until spring
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Retreads
“How long was I dead for ?”, I asked Jason the male nurse as he checked the chart hanging at the end of my metal framed bed. A minute, two minutes, I...
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Double Standards
Posted on Tue, 26 May 2026
Adults' double standards are so confusing to kids.
As a small child (about 6 I guess) I had a couple of toy plastic racing cars (I was always a tomboy). Being brought up a Catholic I knew that it was good to be kind and generous and all...
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Oh Harry I know this feeling
Posted on Thu, 21 May 2026
Oh Harry I know this feeling - listening to your parents arguing. Frightened and fascinated at the same time. Although to be honest it wasn't arguing in our case - just a load of accusations about other women from my mum, and her crying, and my...
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I'm so pleased to see you so
Posted on Fri, 15 May 2026
I'm so pleased to see you so positive and at peace with yourself Jenny. Kat x
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And another one
Posted on Mon, 11 May 2026
And another Petri dish :
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5pe4yel1ko
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Some encouragement
Posted on Mon, 11 May 2026
I think it's encouraging how many places are now banning these gigantic floating hotels.
Oh, and when my grandad was a trainee chef on the Aquitania in the 1920's, TB was endemic in the crew's quarters. So nothing new about...
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I'll give cruises a wide berth thank you
Posted on Mon, 11 May 2026
Yep, just like I've always imagined it Jane.
Cruises always make me think of two quotes :
'Cruise ships are floating Petri dishes' - don't know who said that, but it's very apposite right now
'Hell is other people' - Jean...
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This is wonderful Vera. So
Posted on Fri, 08 May 2026
This is wonderful Vera. So expressive and atmospheric. Have you ever read David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas ? I think you would enjoy it.
My last one left his slow cooker behind. It is absolutely wonderful and a lot more use than...
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The former Kidlington Airport
Posted on Thu, 07 May 2026
The former Kidlington Airport is now known as London Oxford Airport. I'm sure you're absolutely right that soon we will have London Inverness Airport, London Reykjavík Airport etc
I'm glad you have peace in your skies, but we certainly...
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Can't can't
Posted on Wed, 06 May 2026
Thank you Turlough but I think that would just prove to those around me that I was completely bonkers !
And yet again you have educated me, I didn't know Offenbach wrote the can-can. I thought it was Toulouse Lautrec.
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Wow Claudine is that a thing
Posted on Wed, 06 May 2026
Wow Claudine is that a thing ? People not doing acts of kindness out of actual kindness, but in order to get ticks or likes or whatever it is ? That strikes me as really sad.
However, I can see your point, and I shall take it as...
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