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Anniversary
Woke up this morning, and realised that it is the two year anniversary of the day I had my nephew arrested. It was accidental of course. When I reported the crime, I had no idea who the perpetrator might be. … Continue reading
Posted in Healing, Random, Self Awareness, society, Uncategorized
Tagged crime and punishment, Family, Her Last Sunset, Self Awareness
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It was the moon that did it…
…hanging there in her fullness; already rising so far north since her brief flirting with the equinoctial horizon. Then today, past full but still ripe, high overhead; a ghostly image against the brightest blue of mid morning’s cloudless sky. How … Continue reading
Posted in Early stirrings, Landscape, society
Tagged Ancestors, Solstice of the Moon, symbolism
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The only constant is change
This is a street scene my ancestors knew well. It’s one of the main roads out of the village nearest to the place I grew up. It hasn’t changed all that much since the picture was taken in 1906. If … Continue reading
Death of a salesman
We’ve all had them. The incessant sales calls, interspersed with the “Hello, I’m a hacker looking for easy access to your computer, erm, I mean, Steve from Microsoft…” type calls. Now, apart from the half-assed hacker boys who I like … Continue reading
Spring Awakening
Hoo. Had no idea I’d been gone so long… I’ve been away. Not in the “absent from” sense, other than the normal-for-the-time-of-year inability to feel genuinely invested in very much beyond the need for hibernation, but, rather, in the more-there-than-here … Continue reading
The perils of owning a brothel…
A story appearing on the BBC website a few weeks ago, about the poor chap that found his Airbnb flat had been turned into a “pop-up brothel“, gave me a good chuckle. Having previously been the proud owner of a … Continue reading
Posted in society
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Reclaiming O’Shaughnessy for Roald Dahl
Ode Arthur O’Shaughnessy We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers And sitting by desolate streams; World losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers … Continue reading
Posted in Random, society
Tagged Arthur OShaugnessy, Ode, Roald Dahl, Search, We are the dreamer of dreams
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Mad, bad and dangerous to know
Well. I’ve been trying to write the same post since April 2015, and it might (just) be about to be writ… or not… so a little preamble might be in order. I was at work. The phone rang. It was … Continue reading
Posted in Ceremony, society
Tagged Mythology, Religion and Spirituality, Search, Spirituality
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Do animals “feel”?
They say that animals don’t “feel”. Meet Blackie. At least that’s what we called her, as kids. It may even have been her real name, it’s been so long I’m no longer sure. That’s Eddy Miller on his rounds with … Continue reading
Children playing with matches
I leave you alone for a week, and what happens? It was all very well allowing the children to shake the box… such a nice rattle noise to keep them amused for a while, and all… but who on earth … Continue reading
Stepping Stones 