Monthly Archives: December 2011

It’s that time again.

The reflections of the year that’s about to pass are all around. News, pictures, stories, tragedies, disasters, events. What was news makes news again. Lest we forget. I look at the year I’ve just lived and see, easily in my … Continue reading

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The problems of christmas.

There aren’t any little children left in our Christmas Day anymore. Everyone’s grown up, or almost 10. My nephew, who went into ecstasies a few years back because he finally got a packet of his very own – and coloured! … Continue reading

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Reading in the day time.

One day, long ago and in my youth, I went to collect a bed that had been stored with the daughter of a woman I worked with. We arrived at the appointed time in the morning and the woman, young, … Continue reading

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