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Daybook Entry
For Today… 25th February 2016. Outside my window…it’s grey and dull and very cold I am thinking… about taking up plate spinning as a hobby! I am thankful… for my health which is proving better than I...
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Daily Post: Counting Voices
I really need to sort this blog out if I mean to keep doing it. Over a decade of wittering on has left me a bit dry on inspiration. Updates on the family only go so far and make writing feel like a...
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Five Items
I love to listen to Desert Island Discs, a Radio 4 programme which asks celebs to choose 7 pieces of music, a book and a luxury item to a desert island. My Daily Post challenge today is called five...
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Leap
Today’s Post Prompt is just that one word, Leap. I assume this is to do with today being the 29th. The day is necessary almost every four years because it takes a little under 365 and a quarter days...
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Secret
Today’s prompt is the word “secret”. I’ve always found them quite destructive things, secrets. I understand the need for keeping someone’s confidence when they share an event or fact about themselves....
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Diet without the b£&@hit
Today’s one word prompt is “inevitable” which is how likely conversation in our house will usually get back to the subject of diet. We love our food and have wolfed down more hot roasts, cakes and...
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Coincidence?
Social Media, for me, serves to highlight the connections that exist between us all. As I made new friends and “met up” with old school chums, I was initially surprised to find that their friends were...
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Tech
In Casa Crazy we have a plethora of screens and and an excessive level of access to the internet. Each family member has an eyepad, Gill being the last to join the fold. The four teen/adults also have...
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Sentimental Gestures
Our prompt for today is the word “Sentimental“: one of many words which occur on a long list of adjectives which will never be used to describe me. Sentimental is often applied to gestures made where...
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Contrast v clones
Just lately I have been using WordPress’s Daily Post to stimulate my blogging. It’s worked up to a point but one-word prompts are a bit dry so I’ll continue but just hide the word and it’s link in my...
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All Change
Blogging about work is a rarity because of the level of media monitoring by our company. However, I am able to tell you about a change of hours that I brokered recently. My shifts were becoming...
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Incomplete
Much of what and who we are, and even the lives we lead, is incomplete. How many of us rue the job we accepted because we needed the money: ambitions shelved for the sake of the mighty dollar....
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A Fleeting Glance
Our time here is brief. A fleeting glance down an alleyway in Venice during a stay in the 90’s has stuck with me over the years. A punt with flowers was passing an old lady on a doorstep jetty and the...
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The Drop
Inspiration for this post is a little “icky”. I had cause to visit a friend’s house recently and was appalled by the standard of living. Now it is important to note that we are messy family. Our place...
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Lumps, Bumps and a Prison Break
Curious conversation yesterday. Work was extra busy when my newly appointed supervisor brought her phone over to me. Gill sounded tense as she told me that Cerys had been sent home from school with a...
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Windows 2016
The eyes are the window to the soul, it’s said. Nah. The blog is the window to the soul, your front room and some of your deepest darkest thoughts … sometimes. Blog a poem and we can read between the...
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Old Friends
Old friends are like a pair of well worn shoes. Comfortable because the shoe has been shaped by the foot as much as it has created the odd callous. My longest standing friends have put up with me for...
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What Price Victory?
As a young man I took a great deal of pride in winning an argument. Still do but now I understand that the relish I get from a well honed argument is often accompanied by an increase in distance from...
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Social Media: Is it devaluing communication.
Today’s post from a friend of mine, Muminamerc, made me think. Social Media, once considered “cutting edge” technology , now plays an ever increasing part in our lives. It seems a shame though that...
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Our Ashley
Some of you will know that my son has a disability. It’s called Septo-Optic Dysplasia – S.O.D. in short. It affects his vision which is very poor, his development which is at the crawling/toddling...
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