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Continue reading →: Year of the Rooster
Chinese New Year is not far off – starting from January 28th, and ending on February 15th, 2018. There will be some celebrations locally in Belfast which has a vibrant Chinese community – here’s a link to the Chinese welfare association’s website. My Chinese Zodiac sign is the Goat which means that…
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Continue reading →: Flogging a Dead Horse
Donald Trump’s grandfather, Friedrich Drumpf, was an enterprising individual who knew a good thing when he saw it. In 1885 he emigrated from Germany to New York aged 16. At 22 he headed West and grabbed opportunities along the Klondike trail during the Gold Rush. The notorious Dead Horse Trail may well have…
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Continue reading →: Shocking Stuff
I am in danger of following a theme, but don’t worry that won’t last long. My latest draft poem is a dig at prose poetry and the scatter gun approach to writing, where spontaneity is key. Pollocks as a title is my attempt at humour. Art is often ridiculed for…
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Continue reading →: Scare Tactics
Fear is a powerful force in the hands of despots. It is a great inhibitor preventing people from carrying out actions in their own interests and bending to the will of the oppressor. Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot took the fear of violence and death to extremes. Those who understand…
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Continue reading →: Good luck everyone in 2017
Skype linked my far flung and not so far flung family as 2016 made its exit. I didn’t go to the pub, but that could have been a sad and lonely experience, just me a pint and some pulled pork watching people having a good time. As it was, mum and…
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Continue reading →: Chuck another pig on the BBQ
New Year’s eve celebrations in the Antelope pub will include slow cooked pork and live music. I have rather taken to their extra pale ale which has a gingery-cum-elderflower bouquet well suited to the post Christmas jaded palate. If mum’s not staying up to see in the new year, I…
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Continue reading →: Built in obsolescence
I don’t like spending more than a tenner a month for my mobile phone usage, but I may have to bite the bullet and upgrade. This decision is being forced on me because my device no longer supports the latest apps. So if I want to have a boarding pass…
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Continue reading →: The best laid plans…
Our family trip to visit my mother over Christmas turned out differently this year. A recurrence of pneumonia landed her in Kingston General Hospital just before the festivities began. My wife and eldest son had heavy colds so couldn’t visit the respiratory ward. With all the wheezing and coughing on…
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Continue reading →: Zen or Phobia
Conservatives are patting themselves on the back. They have a leader they can rally behind and a party that puts UK citizens first. Their slogan “A country that works for everyone” sounds egalitarian, but if you substituted any consumer product for the word ‘country’ it becomes more obviously trite. A…
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Continue reading →: Marketing not Blogging
Where is the economic value in blogging? If you approach blogging from that standpoint you will want to maximise your earning potential. At WordCamp Belfast I learnt how to research the most pressing online questions from which a solutions blog could be built. It makes sense to address current needs…
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