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O! Grandmother\'s Clock! I salute thee!
When my grandmother's mantlepiece clock was repaired, the nice man who fixed it was a clock enthusiast, who was able to tell me a lot of the history of clocks and of the way in which this one had likely come into the family from its origins in German...
Okay, I\'m up... I\'m up!
Mornings on the bus again. The other day must have been exam time in the Tech, cos the upper deck was packed out with satchel carrying scarecrows of the type I used to be before I mysteriously found a briefcase in my hand."Audrey doesn't like me.""Y...
Okay, Vodafone...
I know I don't use my phone much, except for texting replies to Herself asking if the meeting I'm in the middle of is over yet, or if I'm having a nice day when I'm having a horribly bad one... I know you'd probably not be pleased that I haven't boug...
How Herself lost the toe of her sock
Grandchildren... You love 'em... Both the ones who made slippers of the cat... Or the ones who parachuted from the shed... Or the ones with the waggily tails..."Time to get up," Herself says from the side of the bed. I grumble my eyes open and stare...
Blog and more blog
"But you're very young in that picture," Herself says, looking askance at the new Avatar image I've posted."So?" I ask."What about the one I took of you in the garden? That's a better picture.""Yes, but I have that as my Social Networking avatar at ...
Writing it down
Health, death, mental health.... probably everyone is sick of me writing about these now, but here I go again anyway.I was thinking of my father a lot when I was lying around in hospital and resisting the urge to count the ceiling tiles, or the numbe...
