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The Orient Express – a shorter, but more fashionable train journey – with a weird twist!
Back in the days when Julian was working at an international bank in the city of London, but not earning big bucks, he decided to give me a special Valentine’s present – a trip on the Orient Express from London … Continue reading
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The Super Chief
Think back on your most memorable road trip. Road trips in England don’t really compare to what I think of as ‘road trips’. We have spent time going places in the car, stopping over-night then going on to somewhere else … Continue reading
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127.5 or bust? Not likely!
What are your thoughts on the concept of living a very long life? I’ve already reached my 81st year and to some people I have already lived a very long life. I know, as I said recently, that I have … Continue reading
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ADDENDUM TO Past Tense vs Future Tense
Julie, my sister-in-law, has reminded me about the end of the parcel game. When everyone has had a go at throwing the dice and all the parcels have been taken, a timer is set and everyone gets further chances to … Continue reading
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Future tense vs Past tense. (And, after reading below, see the following Addendum!)
Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why? At eighty years of age I absolutely know that there are more years behind me than there are before me. Of course, I think of the past … Continue reading
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The Best Gifts
What is the greatest gift someone could give you? If I could have a wish or two from a fairy godmother I would ask for World Peace first then I’d ask, probably, for clear eye-sight, better hearing and to be … Continue reading
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Education from birth to the other end!
What colleges have you attended? Living, as I do, in a country which is not the USA, any college I went to would be completely unknown to most of my readers. Indeed, the two colleges I went to have disappeared … Continue reading
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Hands, Knees and……What?
It started when I reached 63. We had been in Broadstairs less than a year. I’d had a very mild tummy pain for a couple of days and Julian urged me to go to the doctor. I thought it was … Continue reading
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There is a problem!
Do you need time? The time I need is my past! As a child I must have spent lots of time drawing and applying paint to paper but, as far as I remember, I wasn’t given any encouragement in that … Continue reading
My three wishes
You have three magic genie wishes, what are you asking for? When I was a little kid I would have wished for sweets or a doll or some other toy. When I was three and a half, I might have … Continue reading
White Haired Woman 