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Tidying and clearing the house in the Highlands
Tidying Brin Croft I would, while she was alive, think of how it would be, sleeping and eating in her empty home, going through her things, sorting, allocating, disposing. I knew the day would one day...
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Work
I cycled into town, Oscar running with me beside the canal, to get leaflets copied, buy some odds and ends including batteries for my cycle lights, marker pens, and a reliable steak bake from Greggs,...
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Place
We're all in the kitchen here, Amy. Liz, Oliver, Lin and I, with Flea watching us making lists... Going back to an afternoon in 2009 on the other side of the world: Meanwhile in the small town of...
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Handsworth Helping Hands
Working in Stamford Road Residents and volunteers with Handsworth Helping Hands - our local voluntary handyperson group with transit van and tools and enthusiasm - filled three skips with rubbish from...
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My hearing
I noticed his name badge - Phil Ypres-Smith. He was the expert at City Hospital Hearing Treatment Centre where I had an appointment on Friday morning, much sooner than I'd expected after my slightly...
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A thread on Facebook - 'Only Corfu Society' - on superstition, religion and...
ReferenceRECENT POSTSVanessa KatsarouThere is a bird that screeches at night (definitely a bird not an owl as I have made out it's outline in a tree). My Greek husband has always got very unnerved when...
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...the present model of a highly centralised state “will not see us through...
'...the shadows they make real...' Crumbs from a year's conversation with Jan D: ...There is a tendency to respond to problems by adopting legal or bureaucratic means (sometimes these are necessary)...
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Greenery
I don't know if it's a Newton or a Granny Smith. Its apples are both cookers and eaters. It might be the same cultivar that, as the story goes, dropped an apple on the head of a genius. I'd have said...
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So Brin Croft is up for sale
Brin Croft and Brin Rock beyond On Monday 22 July my mum's house, which Lin and I are clearing next week, will be officially for sale. Once Brin Croft is gone I'll probably not go to the Highlands...
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'The world is so full of a number of things...'
A small sample I've been doing a bit of exploring in connection with current stories about surveillance and intrusions on privacy made more effective by the scale and scope of the internet....
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Days out and about
“You’re not getting up are you?” whispers Lin “What time is it?”“Six-thirty. I want to see the sunrise” Amy has told me a theory. ‘It’s proved’ the more intelligent stay up late and sleep late. I being...
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Lunch in Ano Perithia
Spring at Ano Perithia Monday was damp; the house so quiet. Some have taken advantage of the wet, after ten sunny days, to set bonfires, their smoke mixing with the mist making the chill evening air...
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Getting little things sorted
The sense of pleasurable achievement from dealing with small things – what would it be called? They're may be a term invented by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd - the name of a small English town...
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'The glory and the freshness of a dream...'
“I can’t believe it’s already a week since Amy and Guy went home” said Lin "Time"“I think I know why it passes quicker when you’re older”“Go on” I said“Every day is a smaller proportion of your whole...
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A plot
Jan emails: Simon. Have you seen the results of Local elections? Extraordinary results for UKIP who took 25% of the votes. In Lincolnshire they now have 16 councillors, having had none previously and...
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Summer Song's ready to go back in the sea
A succession of clear skies and proliferating greenery and, with the heat, the steady increase of public voices up and down Democracy Street, among our neighbours and people walking by, sometimes...
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Continuity
Dave was already attaching slings beneath Summersong when we arrived at the harbour. The crane, four sturdy supports extended either side of its carrier, squatted between boat and water, its driver...
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The blue of the sea we've left behind
South wind on the west coast of Corfu Sat either side of the aisle we saw lozenges of perfect blue as our plane ascended, banking in a wide circle that brought us over Pantokrator, then the high coast...
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Rain
I took Oscar for a walk into town. We left the house in in rain. I wore layers of clothes under a full-length waxed cotton raincoat, neck warmer, waterproof gloves. Starting through Handsworth Park I...
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'Out of Town'
From: Simon Winters Hi Simon. Don't know if you are in UK and can make it, but there is a Kaleidoscope event on this saturday at Stourbridge. We are filming interviews for a major BFI documentary...
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