Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is one of my favourite books. I have read it and listened to the audiobook several times. It is an epic book that would be on the scale of something like Apocalypse Now if it were made into a film. Indeed Judge Holden could only…
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The world has gone mad
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Entitlement & dentists
A little survey from my local paper popped up on Facebook today. It wanted to know how long people had been waiting to see a dentist or when they last visited one. Of course the replies were predictable. Years on waiting lists for nothing to ever come of it. People…
UGLY DOGS UGLY PEOPLE
They are supposed to be muzzled here now in the Uk but most won’t be because of the very people that own them. We all know this. Another grandmother ripped apart by her son-in-laws dogs yesterday and a mother and two children attacked in a park today. It’s a never…
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January art journaling and the greenhouse to be
I was going to get on with all sorts of art challenges this January but I’ve become obsessed with my new greenhouse. The one I have to keep taking down before it’s fully built to prevent it blowing away. I have shelving, and a potting table to build, a stool…
Sometime around now
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A world run by psychopaths
25,000 people. Twenty five thousand. Killed simply because they are in the way. What Hamas did was worse than the worst horror film I have ever watched and I’ve seen most. We generally don’t get to hear what goes on that’s the thing. Pretty much the same atrocities were committed…
Growing Old Wisely
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Hello to 2024
2023 has been kind to me in lot’s of ways. I’m very grateful for where I live, for my continuing good health and for my relationships with my daughter and big brother and his wife. I feel very lucky. Last year I gave up on the people that sapped me…
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Words part 1
I love to write and always have for as long as I can remember. I wrote a story in a book when I was about 10 or 11 and I remember my mum telling me she thought it was brilliant. I loved English at school and writing composition assignments. I…
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Digital trails
I’ve worked long and hard building my shop on Etsy, maybe 7 or 8 years. This last year the work has indeed paid off. I’ve built up a customer base that comes back to buy more, star seller status and enough money to pay a decent wage. But there are…
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Keep your children close
I often think how lucky I am to have my daughter so close. In light of the recent atrocities in the world, even more so. I see my daughter several times a week. She often stays the night, comes for meals or sometimes we just go shopping. If she stays…