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The Engagement
He loved her but it didn’t show. Gave her protection from a distance: understanding without a sense of intimacy. Just some guy in a cubicle crunching numbers through the working day. It wasn’t climbing Everest but it paid the bills. … Continue reading
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Tagged character, health, life, musing, musings, reflections, writing
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A Guide to Domestic Bliss for the New Husband or Partner
Household Chores It is a good idea to have a small CD or section on your I pod which contains a range of useful sound effects produced by the “gifted man about the house”. These might include the sounds of … Continue reading
Posted in creative writing, Fiction, humour, Life, Relationships, skils, Uncategorized, writing
Tagged character, cooking, life, musing, musings, reflections, relationships, talents
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Gentle Incompetence
Recently I have been paying more attention to my writing career. Sorry, I’ve got a bit carried away there. What I meant to say was,” I’ve been paying a bit more attention to my desire to have a writing career”. … Continue reading
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Tagged character, confidence, environment, inspiration, life, musing, musings, Panic, reflections, self-esteem, talents, work
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Living the Nightmare
Let us hope that you do not know the feeling when you are looking at the damage caused by the bathroom ceiling falling down onto your living room floor, together with a cascade of water from the burst pipe which … Continue reading
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Tagged character, confidence, conflict, environment, inspiration, musing, musings, reflections, relationships
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Drifting Into Adulthood
I grew up in a slightly odd childhood, one of the younger of six siblings, and sometime after my mother had exhausted all sense of wonder at the birth of a new child. Dealing efficiently with the demands of a … Continue reading
Posted in character, childhood, community, employment, Environment, Life, Relationships, Talent, Uncategorized
Tagged character, childhood, confidence, environment, inspiration, life, musing, reflections, relationships
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Historical Perspectives
There is a hobby, not always shyly indulged, for revealing, as a counterpoint to cramped circumstances, that some ancestor did something famous in a battle, or lived in a castle or was the King of Wongolia or whatever it might be. Reflecting on … Continue reading
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Tagged character, environment, inspiration, life, musing, musings, reflections
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Plastic Penguin with a Propeller on it’s Nose
A Blogging contact, ( aawa ) recently wrote a post about a conversation she had with her freezer. I don’t speak German, but I think the general drift was the freezer was warning her not to leave the door open too long. … Continue reading
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Tagged character, life, reflections, technology, time, values
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It’s Raining
In case you didn’t catch it the first time, its raining. Nothing wild and glorious with just a taste of the world’s ending kind of rain. More that steady, we can take the fun out of a lottery win kind … Continue reading
Posted in character, creative writing, humour, recreation, Relationships, shopping, Uncategorized
Tagged environment, musing, musings, reflections, relationships, work
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Being Promising, Predictable or Unreliable
At sometime in our life, dependant on age we should be one of the first two. Number three is a word used for those who have drifted off-line or ” done their own thing” to such an extent that they … Continue reading
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Tagged character, conflict, humour, inspiration, life, musings, reflections, values, work
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