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I shaved my head again today. I shave it every couple of months to disguise the fact that I’m going bald.
Clouds always do the right
Posted on Mon, 13 Dec 2021
Clouds always do the right thing ... well nearly always.
And they have no cares.
I enjoyed readying your poem very much.
Read full commentPosted in Above Such Things
And that's an interesting bit
Posted on Mon, 13 Dec 2021
And that's an interesting bit of information about Victorian postmen. I learn so much about the world and its contents through reading the content of ABC Tales.
I always keep an eye out for the wild birds but there is no sign of any today...
Read full commentPosted in Robin At Winter Solstice
Hello Grace.
Posted on Tue, 14 Dec 2021
Hello Grace.
Mayonnaise is so called because it was first made, apparently, in the town of Mahon on the Spanish / Catalan island of Menorca. And it has nothing at all to do with County Mayo in the west of Ireland as a lot of people...
Read full commentPosted in The Mystery Of The Heinz Salad Cream With 30% Less Fat.
In Bulgaria the word for a
Posted on Mon, 13 Dec 2021
In Bulgaria the word for a robin is cherven ogradka (червеногръдка) which, literally translated, means red collar. We do see them about, along with a few blue tits and hedge sparrows but, after the great numbers of wild birds...
Read full commentPosted in Robin At Winter Solstice
As in the story of The
Posted on Mon, 13 Dec 2021
As in the story of The Princess And The Pea?
The technology that young people have today would have been considered as Space Age stuff when I was a kid. I'm not a complete technophobe but these days I often feel as though I am being left...
Read full commentPosted in I'm Not A Princess.
It's awful. I remember when I
Posted on Sat, 11 Dec 2021
It's awful. I remember when I lived in Wiltshire in England it seemed that a couple of times a year a car full of teenagers would be involved in a fatal accident very late at night.
I could always imagine the circumstances leading up to...
Read full commentPosted in The Seat Belt.
My feelings entirely!
Posted on Sun, 12 Dec 2021
My feelings entirely!
You can say you don't like any other time or day of the year and people will say 'Ah well. Never mind.' But we are not allowed to not like Christmas. 'Bah, humbug!' is the response we get from the revellers, which...
Read full commentPosted in The Mouth of Christmas
And then there's the
Posted on Sat, 11 Dec 2021
And then there's the beautiful music of Franz Liszt. If it wasn't for him we'd all be Lisztless.
Read full commentPosted in L is for Letters (to North Pole) and Lichen
This captures my imagination
Posted on Sat, 11 Dec 2021
This captures my imagination more and more as it gets harder and harder.
I might have mentioned that there are eleven time zones in Russia.
Also, three of the houses that I have lived in have been No 11 ... but very few people know...
Read full commentPosted in 11
This is such a sad story
Posted on Sat, 11 Dec 2021
This is such a sad story Grace, and frightening. I know from experience the dangers that our kids can get into whilst growing up. Mine have all reached their thirties now and are unscathed. Having babies is their latest way of putting my nerves...
Read full commentPosted in The Seat Belt.
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