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Death by Selfie
strangely unaffecting to see lives lost in this way is that a shocking thing to say? guy falls from building filming himself doing handstands on the...
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Dead Man: 3
The bus was crowded, as usual. Workers heading into the city, like himself. John sat downstairs at the back, over the engine, in the warm odour of...
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Dead Man: 2
John Bardo begins the last day of his life... On the way back to the bedroom, John turned on the gas boiler and clicked the stat up a notch – just...
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Dead Man: 1
The day John Bardo died was an otherwise unremarkable day in his life. It was in late spring, when the mornings were beginning to get lighter and...
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The Rest of My Life: Thoughts on looking at mum and dad's wedding photograph.
When my father was the age I am now - 66 - he became homeless for the first time. He was living on the streets. It was around this time of year, too...
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Thanks for your encouragement
Posted on Mon, 23 Jun 2025
Thanks for your encouragement, Claudine. I should have stuck with the original idea. This has taken it in a direction that creates difficulties I don't want, and takes it away from what I was trying to achieve with it.
That's writing,...
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Agreed. These
Posted on Sun, 22 Jun 2025
Agreed. These categorisations all become meaningless over time. And it starts with the language, of course. The process of dehumanisation. 'Migrant', 'druggie', 'leftie', etc. It becomes easier to hate or dismiss someone if they've got a...
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You've put into words
Posted on Sun, 22 Jun 2025
You've put into words something it's difficult to find words for. I echo Kilb50's sentiments. I feel the same. When we're confronted with these daily reports and images, all it does is increase the anger, frustration, sense of helplessness. All...
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Hi Jenny,
Posted on Fri, 20 Jun 2025
Hi Jenny,
You're like me, then. My phone often sits unused for days! I use it for making calls or texting, that's all. Most people contact me via email or Messenger. I've used platforms from the beginning. I was on MySpace for a while...
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Yes, so many theories. The
Posted on Sat, 14 Jun 2025
Yes, so many theories. The internet is awash with them - the world suddenly full of 'experts'. They should all just wait until the black box data has been analyzed and the investigation concluded. Then we can know for certain, and these people...
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Yes... that was the point I
Posted on Sun, 08 Jun 2025
Yes... that was the point I was trying to make, Di. That horrendous plane crash in India today brings it into focus, too. All of it, captured and spread and consumed. And then all of the usual pundits flooding social media with their theories...
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On that note, Jenny, I
Posted on Thu, 05 Jun 2025
On that note, Jenny, I recently read some interesting and revealing survey results. The children's charity Kindred2 has found that only 44% of parents of children in reception at primary school believe that children should know how to...
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Strangely, since I retired...
Posted on Thu, 05 Jun 2025
Strangely, since I retired... I've returned to the library! Like you, I hadn't been in our one for year and always bought what books I wanted. But now I've get less money - and more time to read! So I popped in on Saturday to update my details...
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You've captured my own
Posted on Thu, 05 Jun 2025
You've captured my own feelings in this. We now have instant access to all the information we could ever need... but we seem no better-informed. Plenty misinformed, mind. I don't and never will have a smartphone, but already I'm finding the...
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Agh! The kind of stuff that
Posted on Sun, 08 Jun 2025
Agh! The kind of stuff that's plagued me for years. Decisions, decisions. And I've usually settled for the safe, 'in my comfort zone' option, too. I'd have gone for the chairs!
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