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It's almost Christmas Day. The tree is up and glowing. The front yard is slathered in Christmas lights. The turkey is thawing and the chicken will arrive in the grocery order tomorrow. Mince pies are in the cupboard. Presents are ready to be wrapped. This is the time...

I have recently attended two writers' groups' end of year gatherings. In the first group there were just under twenty people, which is pretty good considering we met at the uncivilised time of 9.30am. (I had to leave the house an hour before I usually get up!) At...

I'm baaaa-aaack! Did anyone miss me? Anyone notice I was gone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? SO, it's 8.14 and I've got ten minutes to write a blog before going to a writers' gathering an hour away from home. (Personally, I can't understand these people who can function...

I hesitated to write anything about the latest attacks by Daesh/ISIL/IS, but I've decided I might as well. Everyone else seems to have an opinion on it, so why not add my two cents worth? I think it goes without saying that what happened in Paris yesterday, was...

The Old Boy is on holidays. Apart from the look of jubilation when he came home from the last day of work, the biggest clue is the amount of cricket that's being watched on the telly. I say "watched" but, let's face it, there's quite a bit of "snoozing in front of"...

Yesterday my daughter and grandchildren took me to the zoo. I hadn't been for over 30 years. We lived in the country for 16 of those years, for five of them Jeff was in college and we couldn't afford to go and, for the rest of them, I was unable to walk far enough or...