Monthly Archives: December 2014

A Half-Way Life

Posted on December 29, 2014 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

I did not choose my wife so much as she selected me, I suspect, because I was a biddable man of decent family, with a gift for mathematics which promised a future of passionless security. She was a women who, in other … Continue reading →

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Hold Onto Your Hats. It’s Christmas Once Again

Posted on December 23, 2014 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

For the fourth time now, masquerading as Countingducks, I am very happy and pleased to wish the Albanian with his family of goats and all my other Blogging chums, many of whom have become cherished friends over the passing years … Continue reading →

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A Siren Offers Drinks In Hell

Posted on December 15, 2014 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

You would love her if she wished, but not for an eternity. Anger was her closest friend, and nothing bored her more, she cried, than “Weak kneed praise from slack jawed men.” Unstable at the best of times, she could act … Continue reading →

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The Intermittent Bachelor

Posted on December 8, 2014 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

There I sat, pleasantly full after a late breakfast, watching the smoke from my cigarette move lazily up the window frame. In my other hand was a smallish glass of whisky, which I raised to sip before exhaling pleasantly, nodding to … Continue reading →

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The Secret of A Long Life By Sedgemoor Longridge

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

“Sedgy” as he was known to his friends, most of them having died of course, him being ninety one, was holding forth to his son on his invigorating approach to “Living.” “Well, the first fifteen or sixteen years, as you know, are … Continue reading →

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The Wisdoms “In Passing” of Bernie Sparkler

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

So our Bernie, “What’s not to love”  Springer, is strolling down the street sucking on a out-of-season iced-lolly and glancing in at shop windows, as he does so, when he sees a figure he dimly knows approaching him from the opposite … Continue reading →

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