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May 22, 2014

Huntie puts me on a spot

What am I working on at the moment? How does my work differ from others of its genre? Why do I write what I do? How does my writing process work? Huntmode, of Chasing Rabbit Holes, puts these questions to me and to twoother people. I’m happy to go along with this exercise because it […]
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Published on May 22, 2014 05:30

May 21, 2014

M-R’s challenge 28

“Life 365 a photo project”is the blog of Maria Lackey, subtitled “Going manual, I’m scared’. What does this mean ? Why have I never asked her ? What sort of dill am I ? And how is it I have entirely overlooked asking her about Project365 ? – or even Clickitupanotch ? I must be […]
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Published on May 21, 2014 23:08

Hardacre nails it

– photo of the whenever.:-) It’s a reblog from his own files. More of ‘em, say I. Filed under: beauty, birds, nature, photos, travelling Tagged: Antarctic, shag
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Published on May 21, 2014 20:10

Pharrell Williams and “Happy” again …

I find this version of dancing to the song absolutely wonderful ! I had no idea it had gone viral, as I’m not a TwitBook adherent: in fact, when I re-blogged Ava’searlier version as made by the youngsters from Brittany in France, I’ve never heard of the song. (Made up for that ignorance, though – […]
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Published on May 21, 2014 16:02

Something light-hearted on THE budget !

The AMA (Australian Medical Association) has weighed in on Joe Hockey’s proposed budget changes to Australia’s health services … The Allergists voted to scratch them, but the Dermatologists advised not to make any rash moves. The Gastroenterologists had a sort of a gut feeling about it, but the Neurologists thought he had a lot of […]
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Published on May 21, 2014 00:43

May 20, 2014

M-R’s challenge 27

Today’s blog is of another Aussie – I do like Aussies !:-D It’s that of my mate Irene Waters, whose blog is called – in spite of my having lectured her about it (she is a wilful woman, and does exactly what she wants [grin]) –“Reflections and Nightmares – Irene A Waters (writer and memoirist)”, […]
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Published on May 20, 2014 22:42

I’m sinking …

Each morning when I fire up the PC, I worryin advance abouthow many emails saying[New post] are going to appear in my Inbox. Some days it’s a perfectly manageable number – say, around 50to 60. Some days it makes me anxious about how much time I’m going to be sitting here, in terms of the […]
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Published on May 20, 2014 22:12

May 19, 2014

M-R’s challenge 26

Here is a French blog. But it doesn’t matter an iota if you don’t speak a syllabub of French, for it’s a photographic blog. It’s Julie’s site, called“L’instant âné … by Julie :)”, and proves me wrong for the third time. Alas ! I shall do again what I did yesterday, which is to provide […]
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Published on May 19, 2014 23:06

TROWC = The Rabble of Wicked Children pretending to be th...

TROWC = The Rabble of Wicked Children pretending to be the Oz government of the dayFiled under: Uncategorized
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Published on May 19, 2014 17:38

This is REALLY worrying

The Conversation is an Aussie site that’s a mixture of an online forum and a news site, and does pretty well at both. Here’sa problem that’s far more urgent and important than anything within he political arena, believe it or not ! – even my whinge about what TROWC are excising from my income takes […]
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Published on May 19, 2014 17:07