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Mike Cavanagh

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Born

Australia

Website

https://oneofitslegs.org

Genre

Memoir, Humor and Comedy, Fantasy

Member Since

June 2016

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Mike Cavanagh is now in his sixties and has no idea how that happened. He lives with his wife, Julie, adult son Dan, and two black cats in Bateman’s Bay, NSW. Two other adult children, left home eventually, complete the extended menagerie.

The house Mike and Julie live in is quirky and in need of regular maintenance, as are its owners. Mike also writes poetry, fiction, plays guitar and composes music, is doing research on rock-wallabies, and spends far too much time playing computer role playing games. He does none of these very well, necessarily, but he does them.

Mike thought he knew who he was until a diagnosis of Asperger’s Syndrome in his sixties gave him pause to rethink who he thought he was, and how he got here. Having no real idea ...more

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	One of its Legs are Both the Same 4.83 avg rating — 30 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wish You Were Here - Holiday Memories: An anthology of travel stories (The Travel Stories Series) by Alyson Sheldrake (Goodreads Author), Adrian Sturrock (Goodreads Author), Kathryn Gauci (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 24 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Travel Stories and Highlights: 2018 Edition by Robert Fear (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alison Galilian (Contributor), Alison Ripley Cubitt (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.84 avg rating — 25 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	40 Life Changing Events: 2022 Edition by Robert Fear (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Adrian Sturrock (Goodreads Author), Valerie Poore (Goodreads Author) 4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Pocket Full of Days: Part 1 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Travel Stories Collection (The Travel Stories Series) by Alyson Sheldrake (Goodreads Author), Adrian Sturrock (Goodreads Author), Alexandra Palcic 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Pocket Full of Days Part 2 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Ordinary Boy... mostly. Volume 1: The Big, Pink Place on the Bend 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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A while ago my wife and I came down with RSV – respiratory syncytial virus. We had never heard of it before, and quite frankly m’dear wish we never had. Avoid it like the plague, which it shares a couple of symptoms with, although the diseases are completely different in all other respects. But I’m not here to bemoan our trials to caution the unwary, although any unwary out there, please consider Read more of this blog post »

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Mike Cavanagh made a comment on Dumb Animals " Hi Carolyn - hope all's well with you? Jules and I had fun... you know, in that 'well at least we didn't die' sort of fun. Thanks God for coconuts and ...more "
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Mike Cavanagh wrote a new blog post Dumb Animals A while ago my wife and I came down with RSV – respiratory syncytial virus. We had never heard of it before, and quite frankly m’dear wish we never ha Read more of this blog post »
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“Find beauty. Be still.”
― W.H. Murray, Mountaineering in Scotland / Undiscovered Scotland

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“Ear all, see all, say nowt;
Eyt all, sup all, pay nowt;
And if ivver tha does owt fer nowt -
Allus do it fer thissen”
― yorkshiremans motto

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“When something's one thing, it's not another.”
― Graham Swift, Last Orders

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“But there, my friends, songs like trees bear fruit only in their own time and their own way: and sometimes they are withered untimely.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

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