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Dogsbody (3)

By HarryC on Sun, 29 Sep 2024

After the pub job, my money soon dried up. I was back to making calls and going through the local papers. One evening, Mr Watson – a tall elderly man...

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Tom Tom Turnaround (4)

By HarryC on Sun, 29 Sep 2024

The days had a routine that he liked. Get washed and dressed and have his Corn Flakes or Ready Brek for breakfast. Dad had already gone to work, and...

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Dogsbody (2)

By HarryC on Sat, 28 Sep 2024

After the interview at the Employment Exchange, I set to. Next day, I took a notebook down to the phone box in the village and looked up ‘Farmers’ in...

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By HarryC on Fri, 27 Sep 2024

Something new! I retire next year after 50 years of work - and almost 40 jobs in total! I've tried many things - failed at some, succeeded at others...

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Someone should give her a

Posted on Tue, 03 Sep 2024

Someone should give her a rocket!

Posted in Don't Mess with a Meteorology Man

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And, according to figures I

Posted on Sun, 01 Sep 2024

And, according to figures I saw recently, an ever-growing number of adults now get their news solely from TikTok. Who knows where that will lead...

Posted in They Were Only Children

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I agree with Claudine. It

Posted on Sun, 01 Sep 2024

I agree with Claudine. It does what poetry is supposed to do: explode something inside my head - a sense of recognition, understanding and agreement - but in a way that takes me time to think through and unravel. It says what I think, but in...

Posted in They Were Only Children

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Ain't that the tooth! A

Posted on Sat, 31 Aug 2024

Ain't that the tooth! A short, off-beat tale to bring a smile to my face.

Posted in Water.

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Great to find these, Terrence

Posted on Mon, 26 Aug 2024

Great to find these writings, Terrence, after a long time away. They speak like my own voice in my own head. Unfortunately, sound is the BIG issue for me. I can pick up the tiniest. I have a new next-door neighbour who, sadly, has a TV the...

Posted in A hundred moments in autism - Sometimes there is just too much

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'Our life is frittered away

Posted on Tue, 27 Aug 2024

'Our life is frittered away with detail. Simplify! Simplify!'

Henry David Thoreau

(as many have pointed out... one 'simplify' would have been enough, Henry!...

Posted in Never Enough?

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Letter in The Times a couple

Posted on Fri, 16 Aug 2024

Letter in The Times a couple of weeks ago:

Harriet Walter says that "there is nothing more depressing than a two-year-old in a buggy glued to a screen". I think that an adult pushing a buggy using a mobile phone and ignoring a...

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Yes, you're right. Any way

Posted on Fri, 16 Aug 2024

Yes, you're right. Any way you look at it, it's not good. I don't know what the answers are. Once an avalanche starts falling, you can't stop it. It'll only stop when it's destroyed everything in its path, and hits the bottom, and runs out of...

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I try to remain hopeful. But

Posted on Fri, 16 Aug 2024

I try to remain hopeful. But when you see how it's all being driven by the race to the top, and that the gap between the growth of capabilities and the development of safety mechanisms is so huge (1,000 to 1), then it's easy to see how it can...

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Thanks, Di. I think the

Posted on Fri, 16 Aug 2024

Thanks, Di. I think the addiction is understandable. It's an essential part of the business model for these platforms - the so-called 'attention economy'. The saying in Silicon Valley is 'If you aren't paying for the product, you are...