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I decided this morning that today was the day I would replace my old mobile phone with something a little more in keeping with the fact that it has been about 5 years since I bought my first one - plus the fact that my phone had developed a nasty habit of randomly turning itself […]

My family was never really that big on tradition. Mum had an odd one where she wouldn’t eat meat on Good Friday. Being of the Catholic persuasion, she said it had to do with being disrespectful to God or something. Mind you, every other Friday of the year, we could have slaughtered a cow in […]

I had opportunity to take an impromptu drive through my old stomping grounds this morning. Impromptu only because something else I was doing didn’t quite pan out and I didn’t feel like wrestling the Saturday morning shopping traffic to get back home again. A trip down memory lane, ably assisted by James Taylor on the […]

Thirty years is a long time in any situation. Whenever I hear of people being married for that long, I often think that people get less jail time for murder. When my older friends mention they have children turning 30, I always ask them if that makes them feel old (FYI - it does), but […]

I am becoming more and more intimate with the phrase “Light at the end of the tunnel” as work on my house progresses at a slow, but steady, pace. Things have progressed far enough now for me to start thinking about where the furniture will go and what walls will house my multitude of pictures. […]