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I think that this winter in the red bricks streets of my adopted Village i am going to crunch amongst one of those long drawn bug eyed Jack Frost bumber winters that can melt finger nails. Even in doors today i will not say how many layers i have on, gosh to be in my home City of Singapore nary a shiver down the spine there. There are times when i ( Read more... )

Snow drifts for much of the day..the temps would not melt an ice cream, i have only opened the front door twice, both for the delivery of packets one from the Postman whom had time for a small chat perhaps because i knew and once worked with him, even when i worked on the post i always had time for a few words and a smile with every door that was ( Read more... )

Tis but the twelve day of Christmas...there has been today snow, rain, and Goblins quite where the Wood Nymphs are is unknown. Today 56 years ago i was sent away to a small boarding school in Hampshire aged 13 my overiding memory of this day 56 years ago was that i left behind a school girl i dearly loved, on the journey we passed Stone Henge it ( Read more... )

On this 10th day of Christmas..i have already whispered to myself Bollocks to New Year resolutions as my New Years Eve Euro Millions ticket won me £4.10 pence which i picked up today....which i had promised myself would be the last ticket bought for the year ahead...for when you add the total up for the year a sum of £240 tickles ones ears, tis ( Read more... )

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Today has not felt like a Saturday...i cannot recall when i last stood under the sun...i have a glass of wine by my side perhaps four sips left..these last three days of this year 2024 or any year, i am not sure what games my mind will play..for these last few days of the year...there is always that fear of will i make another year on Planet Zog... ( Read more... )

I have reached the third day of my 69th Christmas and during those Christmas days snow has only fallen five times,yet Bing Crosby has sang it every year on various wireless stations and Pub Juke Boxes to me always making me think on love and lost...do i even remember those years of 1970,1993,1995,1999 2004.....indeed where was i, at the bottom of a ( Read more... )

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Winter Solstice is beginning to slip into my mind...Cabbage kings are offering no help in keeping that tide away, this will be my 69th Winter on planet Zog and..i still have not planted all my Spring bulbs, as i runway from the garden tomorrow to travel down to Cambridge by train to pick family up for some festive fun across the streets of Grot of ( Read more... )