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The Rest of My Life: Fate Accompli

By HarryC on Sun, 18 May 2025

Everything is different because of everything else I came across that line this morning in the book I'm currently reading. It's one of those lines...
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The Rest of My Life: First Day...

By HarryC on Sat, 17 May 2025

Monday, 8th September 1975 That was the day the then callow 16-year-old me started work. Fifty years ago, bar the shouting. We were living in Devon...
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The Rest of My Life: Thinking...

By HarryC on Fri, 16 May 2025

6:00 am Howling cat fed. Now it's time for my first coffee, then my quiet half-hour in the armchair. As usual, once her bowl's empty, Daisy comes in...
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The Rest of My Life: Topsy

By HarryC on Thu, 15 May 2025

Mum had a dog. An over-sized border collie that I bought for her on her birthday 16 years ago. She was overjoyed from the moment she saw it, giving...
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The Rest of My Life: Windchimes

By HarryC on Wed, 14 May 2025

Technically, today is the first day of my retirement! Tuesday has always been a regular day off for me, so today would normally have been my next...
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Yes, I agree.  I watched a

Posted on Wed, 04 Jun 2025

Yes, I agree.  I watched a video the other day of a free concert REM gave in downtown Toronto in 2002.  The streets were jam-packed.  From the stage perspective, all you could see was a vast ocean of happy, smiling faces - people dancing, singing...

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Thanks, airyfairy, for your

Posted on Wed, 04 Jun 2025

Thanks, airyfairy, for your thoughtful and balanced response. I admit that it goes against the grain for me to feel a certain level of indifference to these tragedies. It's complicated - and in that sense I can understand how my words can be seen...

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Trouble with bagels is there

Posted on Sat, 31 May 2025

Trouble with bagels is there's always this big bit missing in the middle, where the jam should go!

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Thanks, Di.  I'm glad he

Posted on Tue, 27 May 2025

Thanks, Di.  I'm glad he seems real.  I rarely try third-person narrators, but it feels right for this.  Gives a bit of distance.  I do quite like him myself. Check out 'bardo' and see if it gives a clue!

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Yes.  They have to do that

Posted on Tue, 27 May 2025

Yes.  They have to do that now.  Leave it too long and the rumours and lies soon start spreading.  Not confined to an area any more, though - but globally.  Like the Southport riots. Willingly stirred by the likes of Elon Musk, too.  I suppose it...

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Another shocking event. 

Posted on Tue, 27 May 2025

Another shocking event. 

We all have mental health.  Some have mental illness.  And, like ethnicity, religion and the other things, it's one of those that quickly gets wheeled out.  And, like the others, it creates stigma and fear.  And...

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My favourite period of

Posted on Thu, 22 May 2025

My favourite period of history.  You've captured it well.  An authentic voice, too.

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Not enough of them, sadly.

Posted on Thu, 22 May 2025

Not enough of them, sadly.

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Sadly, mirrors never lie! 

Posted on Wed, 21 May 2025

Sadly, mirrors never lie!  But a lot depends on the ambient light when you look in them!

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I know the writing fog well,

Posted on Wed, 21 May 2025

I know the writing fog well, Jess!  It's like the mists on Dartmoor, too - it rolls in out of nowhere!  Reading is the best substitute/cure.  Walking, too, I find.

I'm not sure about 'experienced' as a writer.  I think it's all about life...

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