Blogs about: Great Days
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The magic and the mystery of blogging
An ikon I’d never seen before popped up on the right hand side! Word Press, bless their little cotton socks, telling me I’ve been blogging for a year. Really? A who… more →
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The magic and the mystery of blogging
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wrote 3 days ago: An ikon I’d never seen before popped up on the right hand side! W … more →
The noble art of reading in bed
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wrote 6 days ago: When I was young and naive, and a novice journalist, I wrote an article in a wo … more →
Testing, testing, testing !
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wrote 1 week ago: When Dr Christian Barnard, world-famous surgeon who invented the first heart transplant, decided to … more →
The drug we can't live without
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wrote 1 week ago: “Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born … more →
Blue sky thinking…a new take!
wrote 2 weeks ago: I loathe business jargon but I’m stealing this one: “blue sky thinking” definition … more →
Food, fear and films
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Village life takes ingenuity in a tight spot, and stamina – plenty of it! These are the time … more →
Many lives or just one?
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wrote 3 weeks ago: “To live is by universal consent to travel a rough road. And how can a rough road that leads nowhere … more →
The fun of fashion
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wrote 3 weeks ago: What to wear has occupied many happy hours and years of my thinking life. So though some research h … more →
Peace or Patriotism?
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wrote 1 month ago: Is patriotism enough? Nurse Edith Cavell first raised the question before she was shot by the German … more →
The mystery of other lives
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wrote 1 month ago: Not a picture of hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil, but a picture of the three fat … more →
Cricketers, bridge-players and great white hunters
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wrote 1 month ago: These I have loved, to quote Rupert Brooke. I think I’m a serial monogamist – but didn’t dare … more →
Rise up children and be free
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wrote 1 month ago: How to make yourself very, very unpopular! Years ago I discovered that in the tug of war between th … more →
An Amazing Day for "Isn't It Romantic?" and Me
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wrote 1 month ago: Today, April 4, 2013 will be a day I will never forget. Two terrific events occurred. The first wa … more →
Seize the day!
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wrote 1 month ago: Today was not one of those days, but One of Those Days. Yesterday, as I watched the tiny, greenery- … more →
Carrying On With The Army Again (part 4)
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wrote 1 month ago: This is the continuing story of ‘my brilliant career’ in the army! I had returned from my regime of … more →
The good enough life
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wrote 2 months ago: Back in the last century, a psychologist called Dr Winnicott coined the comforting phr … more →
The upsides and the downsides of being a woman
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wrote 2 months ago: Something made me re-read a book for girls which my Victorian grandmother had pressed on me when I w … more →
Hollywood, Ruined Reputations and Truth
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wrote 2 months ago: In the New Zealand Parliament this week the leader of one of the parties put up a motion congratulat … more →
Zen and the Art of House Maintenance
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wrote 2 months ago: I think house maintenance has a better ring to it than boring old housework… this way, instead … more →
