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The Rest of My Life: Fate Accompli
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...
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...
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
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
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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Tall stories from little
Posted on Sun, 29 Sep 2024
Tall stories from little seedlings grow!
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Love it! I relate! As
Posted on Sat, 28 Sep 2024
Love it! I relate! As Starmer might say, time to release the sausages.
I wish I could go to gigs. I had to give up on them. Other people make me angry!
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I was a civil servant for a
Posted on Thu, 26 Sep 2024
I was a civil servant for a few years, and my Office Manager was a Gordon Baker - so this resonated.
I really enjoyed this tale. 'The leaves in the park had lost some of their vibrancy and were beginning to dry up and crinkle, just...
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Fabulous. Stark images, and
Posted on Fri, 27 Sep 2024
Fabulous. Stark images, and some perfectly-chosen words to create them. I especially love that final stanza - dream-like and otherworldly.
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Me, too! 'Crackling Cauldron'
Posted on Tue, 24 Sep 2024
Me, too! 'Crackling Cauldron', 'Halley's Comet', 'Silver Fountain', 'Jack in the Box', 'Chrysanthemum Fountain', 'Spitfire', etc. If you do a search on '1960's fireworks', check out the images. You could still get 'Jumping Jacks' then, too....
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Yes, I've experienced some of
Posted on Mon, 23 Sep 2024
Yes, I've experienced some of that. When I was first referred to a psychiatrist to discuss the issue, he said to me 'You can't be autistic because you aren't flapping your hands and rocking in your chair.' So again, it was using his '...
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I only found out yesterday
Posted on Mon, 23 Sep 2024
I only found out yesterday that Steve Silberman had died. I was shocked as he was so young - and not much older than myself. 'Neurotribes' was the first book about autism I read after my diagnosis. Great book. I especially loved the first...
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Climate Change
Posted on Sat, 14 Sep 2024
Thanks, Di. I was going to put that in, but wanted to focus on the tech itself and was worried about length (close to word count). You are absolutely right, though. The data centres that power the internet are huge already and are growing with...
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It is a rant really, though.
Posted on Sat, 14 Sep 2024
It is a rant really, though. It just defeats me. I keep telling myself to drop it, focus on something else, feel happy again. But it's just always there, like this huge monster lurking in the shadows. And I also keep thinking 'What happens if...
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It was written with tongue
Posted on Fri, 20 Sep 2024
It was written with tongue planted firmly in cheek! Having said that, it was an attempt to challenge some misconceptions and stereotypes... and poke a bit of fun at attitudes.
Yes, it means different things to different people - sadly, so...
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