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International Purple Day - Epilepsy Awareness
Tomorrow is Purple Day! My lovely daughter has learned to live with her epilepsy, but we have also learned that there is a lot to be done in terms of research and awareness. This is written with her permission. Purple Day logo used with permission of Purple Day UK.
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What Goes Around (IP)
You can't miss what you've never had. Unless you've had it before. Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons
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Halloween
Not very seasonal, but one I made earlier and have been tinkering with. Photo CC0 via Pixabay
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Postcard from Upstairs (IP)
Don't say anything to Leonard. Picture: https://tinyurl.com/y9mrwdjt
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The Game of the Name
Hooray! The most popular baby names list is out! No, I couldn't care less. Yes, I love a bit of a gawp at other people's choices.
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Great response to the IP,
Posted on Sun, 18 Aug 2024
Great response to the IP, Jenny. It's a special moment when we're allowed up close to another species. There's something reassuring in knowing that they are going about their own lives, and couldn't give a stuff what we're up to or whatever our...
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I love the whole concept of
Posted on Fri, 16 Aug 2024
I love the whole concept of this. Labels can help us to understand ourselves or others, but they can also just present us with another set of rules and parameters to conform to. Set the rainbow children free indeed. Anyone should be proud of that...
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We sang the song about the
Posted on Mon, 12 Aug 2024
We sang the song about the Raggle Taggle Gypsies when I was at school, and it always fascinated me. It was one of the first songs I sang to my son when he was a baby.
'For though now older I'll not age in mind...'
Exactly. Always...
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Well done on this, Paul. You
Posted on Wed, 14 Aug 2024
Well done on this, Paul. You've captured so much of the creeping fear we all have of where the world might be heading. The unholy meeting of minds that was the Musk/Trump face to face would have been funny except for the knowledge that some...
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Of course I clicked on the
Posted on Wed, 14 Aug 2024
Of course I clicked on the link. Ah, Oz. Them were - probably not - the days.
Hope you get your copy of the album ASAP!
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I thoroughly enjoyed this. I
Posted on Wed, 14 Aug 2024
I thoroughly enjoyed this. I feel like signing up for the next La Tomatina, as I'm sure those battle skills will indeed be useful. By chance, my dishwasher started blinking at me this morning, demanding sustenance. Between the cat and the...
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Brilliant, Turlough. I could
Posted on Thu, 15 Aug 2024
Brilliant, Turlough. I could see, hear and smell him. Random conversations are some of the best experiences of life. The other day I was having a chat with the new cleaner for the communal areas of my block of flats, whom I'd never met before,...
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Very well said. I do hope the
Posted on Mon, 05 Aug 2024
Very well said. I do hope the winds will change soon.
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Pick of the Day
Posted on Tue, 23 Jul 2024
This searing and beautifully constructed poem is our Facebook and X Pick of the Day.
Picture by Lorc, copyright free on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons....
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Yes, do carry on! I really
Posted on Sun, 21 Jul 2024
Yes, do carry on! I really want to know what's happening.
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