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Another mansion
Our new home A life – another instalment of my autobiography before I revert to my normal blogs With a job under my belt, working on a liberal family- owned afternoon newspaper, The Auckland Star, I...
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Strong Spirit – Bright Beautiful and Beloved
Another instalment of my autobiography before I revert to my normal blogs I first saw Phillipa as I stood in line at the chemist. Like me she was waiting for a prescription for her son. Unlike me, her...
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Another Bright Beautiful Spirit
The chapel at Oi’s home A life – another instalment of my autobiography before I revert to my normal blogs My friend Oi (pronounced O-ee) had ideas so advanced that even Quaker Meeting – that most...
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May only love prevail!
I try not to hate. But I do hate experiments on animals. Reading a dying girl’s account of her last months, and the things which sustained her, I came across this story. It was an experiment on...
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Castaway Books
I sometimes torture myself by imagining I’m on a desert island and can only take ten books with me. I look around at the walls of book-shelves in the sitting room and bedroom and spare room, and...
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Love Actually
Over forty years ago I found myself visiting a man imprisoned in a psychiatric ward.He had no family, no other visitors, and the story of his life was a search for the only person who had ever loved...
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Bloggers addictions
I’ve been blogging for eight years now, a small stretch of time for some bloggers, I know, but for me, those years seem to have covered life-times, and indeed I have actually crossed over into another...
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That’s Life
I lost my blog, and had no idea how to get it back until dear Linda at coloradofarmlife.com told me how to find it, after I told her how frustrated and helpless I was. However, I was still writing,...
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On my birthday a few weeks ago, a friend sent me an elegant doorstop with a note saying she hoped this would not prevent her coming through my door again. When I wrote back I included the words of an...
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Another day, another search through news headlines, Youtube videos, TV news, on the spot reports, to find some hope that the war will end, that right will triumph over might. Wion, and BBC, Caspian...
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