21st April, 2023.

I’ve got a book to finish!  Somehow, though, I knew I’d end up writing about last night, good or bad … Ironically, torturous was my word of choice when I turned to Manny as the lights went up in the cinema following the National Theatre Live...
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14th April, 2023

Opening this document, for some reason, I typed 14th July.  No clue why but today’s weather has certainly borne no resemblance to that of July!  Grey, overcast, windy, I have been freezing and my attempt to put one foot in front of the other, on the beach, a...
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8th April, 2023

I was so desperate to start with ‘And there you have it!’ but I don’t think I will ever be able to open a sentence with ‘And’. ‘But’ or ‘Because’.  They are conjunctions, after all, whose purpose is to link...
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31st March, 2023

I may be starting this in March but I won’t finish until April …  Yes, I know, my posts are often – alright, usually – a tad on the long side (I would call it value for money, if anyone was paying) but that has not a jot to do with it.  Friday...
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26th March, 2023

‘When the military went into the bunker to get Saddam Hussein, they found a series of Osmond albums.’ Merrill Osmond (talking to Dan Wootton on GB News, March 2022) Now, that made me smile. I was, actually, going to start this with the words, ‘ In...
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