2010
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What I don't write about
Every now and then I get a notion to write about something that irks me, a point of view or statement made by someone else that doesn’t sit quite right with me. I’ll fire up notepad, create a new blank file, and start typing in an effort to coral both my thoughts and the random…
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White Christmas
I am starting to get royally fedup with this perpetual monotone. I get it, it’s winter. Can we move on now? Along with the cold and ice and snow, the rapid filling of my calendar is a sure sign it’s the festive season. Communal gatherings of friends and family, and the usual desire to “finish…
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Looking forward
2011 looms larger and larger in my view and as we start to plan out our goals and aims for the coming year, so I find myself increasingly struggle to make time to write some blog posts, add to that a couple of weeks of food poisoning, and I’m a little behind with things. That…
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Ho Ho Ho!
I’ve almost finished my Christmas shopping. I have one more item (possibly in two parts) to buy and all that will be left will be to badly wrap said presents. And I guess I should buy a Christmas tree at some point but that can wait. Part of my longer term plan for the coming…
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Getting into the groove
This blog is starting to feel like just that, a personal blog, again. That’s good, in that I seem to be getting some sort of writing routine back (even if it’s still somewhat sporadic) and bad in that I seem to be treating it more like a diary. Anyway, it’s my blog, I can do…
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Habit
He hurries in from the cold,shakes his overcoat from his shoulders and hangs it, then his hat, on the bentwood coat stand. He warms his hands on the radiator, crosses the living room to the hi-fi. Bending down he flick-flacks quickly through the LPs, and in practised movement slides an album from its sleeve and…