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Continue reading →: 3 minute blog
So little time this morning – well here goes. Yes it was a great weekend for odespinner. it started gently enough with a family meal at home, then cabin fever gripped me and shook me out the door, ostensibly for a walk, but in my heart I knew there was…
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Continue reading →: saturday – saturn – sat…
Oh the relief, the joy of home and V+ and a remote controller that works. My niece is 18 – so a poem was the sine qua non. A story goes with it (as Damon Runyon said in his tales of racetrack hustlers trying to scratch the price of their…
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Continue reading →: A Walk in the Park
Natural beauty is pretty awesome and at this time of year it’s a right show off. The Botanic Gardens in Belfast have such a variety of trees with leaves that are golden, green and rust coloured, that the eye is dazzled by their setting next to lush lawns and Victorian…
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Continue reading →: 2 is a magic number
I take it all back. If you google stuff you can save yourself hours holding a phone wondering when the world will end, and will it bring all the call centres to the gates of hell individually or in a cataclysmic big bang releasing multiple universes into the cosmos. I…
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Continue reading →: Life without the remote
Having spent Saturday tootling about Belfast doing the shopping, doing the laundry, doing more shopping, looking in on family, sharing some scrumpy with my favourite Welshman, I was looking forward to some quality time with our tv. There was that rugby match I had recorded and hours of other programs…
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Continue reading →: Friday Night Elation
It’s not just the anticipation of a Friday night that makes it special, but the joy of not banging your head against a wall type of thing. My Friday night started off very amicably in the company of two hospitable gentleman, Tony and Austin, in a bicycle workshop. The bottled…
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Continue reading →: stress management (I said…)
Now all together, take a deep breath…hold it in until you feel that your lungs will burst – no, not literally. Somebody help wee Timmy, he appears to have turned purple. And … breathe out, emptying your lungs slowly letting all that bad air out of your being. Your chi…
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Continue reading →: poetry in around and about motion
Regular readers know that I have an interest in the written word, and words spoken that have meaning. Looking at that sentence you may have wondered about the last bit. Surely all words have ‘meaning’? Not at all, some words are scattered so liberally that they are mere chaff, and…
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Continue reading →: African Elephant, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
Mammals – aren’t we great? Elephants of the African or Indian variety are the gentle giants of all the mammals. The Indian ones have smaller ears I think. Ensuring their survival by protecting the sort of habitat they need is only going to get tougher, if the more plentiful mammals…
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