Monthly Archives: May 2011

The Big Game

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

We’re not sports obsessed but I keep an eye on a football team  and I love the big games. They don’t come any bigger than the European Championship final on Saturday and I asked my partner if she would like to watch it with me in … Continue reading →

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Friendship Works

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

A few months ago I was sitting with what you could call my Business Development Manager. He was a sharp suited man blessed with a small watchful face. He was boasting about how he managed to sell a load of life … Continue reading →

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When men worked

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

Recently we went round what we call in the Uk, a car boot sale. Every kind of bric a brac is there:  Even old  78 records and wind-up gramophones are there to send you off on a voyage through recent history. It was   the second … Continue reading →

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Dieting tactics

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

Left to myself I am not a big eater, at least that’s what I tell myself,  and my weight tends to stay fairly stable. My partner, however, is fond of the odd snack  in absent-minded moments. Having said that she is neither … Continue reading →

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Unannounced Beauty

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

The odd thing is, true beauty is often unannounced. Awareness of it grows on you; seeps into your consciousness till the light and warmth it produces gives you an almost translucent glimpse of another way or dimension or something so intangible that we are … Continue reading →

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Sailing

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

Well, not sailing exactly but crewing for a friend who has a converted trawler. It’s seaworthy but not entirely luxurious so his wife, who hates boating anyway, shies away from any extended trips. Time for me to step forward. I … Continue reading →

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Life was Normal by the Barest Margin

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

 That brittle cheerfulness which holds us together in a place were otherwise our emotions would be naked,  guarded me from all but the most perceptive gaze. Knowing looks came from the dispossesed, the isolated and a man on the brink of … Continue reading →

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Egg on my Face

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

 I’m not telling you anything when I say life is a series of battles we have with ourselves, interrupted by the battles we have with other people. Sometimes these battles with other folk can seriously interfere with the important stuff … Continue reading →

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Journey to another time

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

So many years ago; it seems another life,  I walked into the sea off the Serbian coast. It was called Yugoslavia then and I  was far from home. I was fully dressed and  could think of no other way to wash my clothes. … Continue reading →

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Death by Common Sense

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

Sometimes there’s nothing left to hope for but hope itself. We’ve all been there. Lost in the horror of a bad decision or some disastrous chain of events which has left us gasping for air and bemoaning our fortune. I’m somewhere in … Continue reading →

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