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Manners
We're having a party. It's David's birthday. I watch him circulating with a bottle of wine, topping up glasses. People smile at him and nod or say '...
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Conversation With My Body
Fans of Margaret Atwood may recognize the short story which inspired this
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Out in the Styx
Like most women I imagine, I have often had males, of all ages, offer me their seat on the train or bus, or offered to carry my suitcase up/down...
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The Last Flight
Oh my ! I can fly This is it When you die Up high Play I-Spy There's my house ! Speed on by Friends cry Family sigh Cannot stop Wave bye-bye
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Lonesome Dove
Note : spoiler alerts Some time ago HarryC recommended the epic Western novel Lonesome Dove to me. It took some time but I got it out of the library...
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You are expressing yourself
Posted on Tue, 19 May 2026
You are expressing yourself just fine Hoodling. Your words are your words, no need to feel they must be 'better'. They are even more eloquent and impressive in that English is (I assume) your second language.
And please don't apologize...
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You've made a pun there Jane
Posted on Fri, 08 May 2026
You've made a pun there Jane - gutting / split fish belly. Is that deliberate ?
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Hi Jenny
Posted on Sat, 18 Apr 2026
Hi Jenny
I'm so sorry you have to make this decision. I read the following NHS leaflet, which might well be the one you've got.
https://www...
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The Tortoise Awakes
Posted on Tue, 14 Apr 2026
Nobody wants to buy my Plovdiv cottage
. I've got it on the market at the same asking...
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Oh brilliant ! This is
Posted on Tue, 14 Apr 2026
Oh brilliant ! This is really funny and clever.
Have you ever seen an old 1972 Woody Allen film called 'Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)' ? There's a scene in there which is along the same sort of...
Read full commentPosted in Making Sense Of It All
Well if we're all being
Posted on Fri, 10 Apr 2026
Well if we're all being honest, can I say I am seventy one years old and I wasn't shocked or offended at all.
I really don't think we can say 'great humour has never offended'. What about the music halls ? Think Marie Lloyd singing "She...
Read full commentPosted in Joe - a dinosaur theme park story with hotdogs.
Now you see them ..
Posted on Sat, 04 Apr 2026
Maybe nuclear weapons. Which their own intelligence chief told them didn't exist in the first place, but they 'obliterated' in the second place, and then started a war over in the third place. Them pesky nuclear weapons are mighty persistent.
Read full commentPosted in Artemis Too?
Robbie says sorry
Posted on Fri, 03 Apr 2026
I think it must have been Robbie, my neighbour's lovely three legged cat, who passed away recently. (He was actually Robin, as in Reliant Robin) He was an absolute porker and I'm not sure the bridge would have been up to his weight...
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I loved this Jane ! It had
Posted on Fri, 03 Apr 2026
I loved this Jane ! It had an air of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy I thought. And for all we know, maybe this is what happens. I'm so pleased he kept Floppy's ashes, they were far more important than the watch.
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It doesn't have to be like this
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2026
There's always going to be suffering, with diseases and droughts and earthquakes and other natural disasters.
But so much suffering is completely unnecessary, that's what makes my blood boil. This current war of choice is an obvious...
Read full commentPosted in A Hungry Bear Doesn’t Dance
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