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If my dogs don’t like you, I probably won’t either.
I must be mad – there is no need to comment on that!!! I’ve bought a puppy. A black Labrador to join my other three. Puppies are adorable, who doesn’t love a puppy? Well, actually – me! I love my dogs when they are all grown up and reasonably well behaved – although I’m not …
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I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.
As a child I assumed that everybody wrote it was only as I grew older that I realised only some of us write everything down and think in stories. I believed I was going to write heart-rending and dramatic novels. My intention was to move my readers to tears – unfortunately in the case of …
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From Cocktails to Counselling.
In this very troubled world one of my favourite forms of escapism is listening to old radio drama and I’m particularly fond of the Paul Temple mysteries. Paul Temple was the archetypal hero, he was a rich and successful author and an amateur sleuth who was consulted regularly by the head of Scotland Yard, Sir …
Is laughter the best medicine?
They used to say Laugh and the World laughs with you, weep and you weep alone, but now it seems to be more that misery loves company. We all know that disasters sell more newspapers than good news. With my penchant for apt quotations I like the one in Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina that says: …
Beauty is Only Skin Deep.
What’s wrong with Skin deep? What do people want, a pretty pancreas? A lovely liver? One of the joys of getting older is that looks cease to matter that much. Anyone can keep up their standards if they want to, but they do it for themselves (or for their career if they are in the …
Ignorance is Bliss, ‘Tis folly to be wise.
Seventy odd years ago the world was a simpler place because there was so much we didn’t know. We were past the point where doctors actually recommended cigarettes to calm the nerves, but nobody turned a hair to someone smoking whilst pregnant. As for foetal alcohol syndrome we’d never heard of it. Everyone I knew …
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Sweet Mystery of Life….
Sweet Mystery of Life at last I’ve found you. Oh no, I haven’t, quite the contrary – the mystery seems to deepen on a daily basis. But who could possibly have found the mystery of life? Stephen Hawkings? Einstein? I don’t even understand how electricity works. Why doesn’t it leak out of the sockets when …
Death is Nature’s way of telling you to slow down.
Probably everyone knows that Oscar Wildes’s last words were supposed to have been ‘Either that wallpaper goes or I do.’ This is almost certainly not true but a famous wit like Oscar Wilde couldn’t possibly be allowed to die without a bon mot on his lips. But leaving the realms of the apocryphal I thought …
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What’s wrong with me?
When in bed at night I often listen to podcasts about true crime and the other night I was listening to one about a serial killer. My friends think this is weird – just carry on reading and you’ll find out things that are really weird – but I like them. Tucked up safe and …
Has Anyone Seen My Glasses? 