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    Dog therapy

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    September 27, 2025

    We are over at our youngest son’s house to mind his chocolate coloured Labrador while he and his fiancé attend yet another wedding. We get great pleasure from making a fuss of Cora and I think she is quite fond of us too. She has those doleful eyes that melt…

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    Stolen bike

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    September 25, 2025

    Stupidly I relied on my ebike’s rear wheel locking mechanism… not good enough.l.have had it stolen outside the Sunflower bar in Belfast.

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    Food inspiration

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    September 25, 2025

    I hate wasting food. The carrots had sat on the windowsill for too long and had to be put in the wee brown bin for compostibles. I had intended making carrot and coriander soup following Mary Berry’s recipe. I still want to make soup, but my Mary Berry cookbook is…

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    Winter is coming…

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    September 24, 2025

    Belfast is getting colder although the trees are not ready to give up their leaves just yet. My family have developed hacking coughs and the culprit for sharing their germs is none other than myself. I have made a couple of sensible clothing purchases: a cardigan from M&S and a…

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    Inter Alia – powerful play

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    September 20, 2025

    The QFT is showing a recording of the National Theatre’s production of Inter Alia by Suzie Miller. It is a thought provoking and well performed play with a small cast, mother, father and son. The mother is a judge and a feminist. The father is a criminal barrister and a…

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    Family reunion

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    September 14, 2025

    Funerals are terrible occasions, but are often the time when family and friends from far and wide gather to celebrate the life of the departed. My family is no exception, and people came from the Southern hemisphere, Scandinavia, Ireland and elsewhere to pay their respects. We only had to take…

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    Belfast drama – Now on Prose Drafts page

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    August 31, 2025

    Young girls were almost wearing enough clothes to cover their essentials. Their pilgrimage to the Boucher Road  was to worship at the feet of Kneecap and Fontaines D.C. Kneecap had courted controversy by openly opposing the Israeli genocide in Gaza. That had boosted their reputation among some of the locals.…

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    Italian hospitality

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    August 30, 2025

    Yesterday I contrived to spend about five hours in my favourite Italian restaurant, La Bottega. Starting with my usual double espresso with a glass of water with ice I read a bit of philosophy about understanding and truth seeking. After about half an hour I was delighted to see Sean…

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    The Sunflower and cheese

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    August 28, 2025

    I struck up a conversation with an interesting Finnish guy in the Sunflower bar today. Several pints later I locked up my bike and persuaded Michael to join me for a final pint at Kelly’s Cellars. That part of Belfast is not somewhere I usually frequent, but I was online…

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    Why not make blaand from whey?

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    August 27, 2025

    If I was making my own cheese, I probably would be interested in using the leftovers or whey. My good friend William, a famous cheese maker, made whey butter and ricotta, but not blaand. It would be interesting to discover if there is any commercially available blaand.

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