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Maturity. Plus heroin and bad hair.

Part 2… Feedback from my previous post about conversations with my daughter were all quite positive, but someone noted, “don’t you ever talk to your son then?” Certainly, I do. Well, I try to. But he’s going through a phase at the moment where, whatever I say to him, is met with the response of; […]

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Just Listen To Yourself!

Things that I vowed that I would never to say to my own kids,  that my own dear parents said to me and my brother, back in the 70’s and 80’s. Utterances that …. guess what? I have actually said MYSELF during the past fortnight. I know this, because after the first two ‘dawned on […]

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Mandela – Connecting with the past…

In the late 80’s I was a very politically aware teenager. But it was more about the miner’s, Thatcherite travesties, the threat of student loans… BBC coverage of Soweto uprisings, talk of apartheid, of an old chap who had been in prison for some god-awful amount of years because he felt he was equal to […]

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A Bit About Me

In my part of the world being referred to as a ‘funny lass’ is more about being perceived to be a bit of an oddity, a bit unusual. Not about the humour.
Still, there's nowt wrong with having a bit of a laugh. Eh? Read More…

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