Ramblings
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And Just When I Thought It Was Safe…
I started of 2023 with all good intentions, and thought we had a reasonably good chance of this year – 2023 – being a little less stressful than the last one. If you’ll recall, 2022 was filled with a couple of big issues, and some little ones – all of which totalled up to mean Continue reading
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Some Thoughts on the way to a New Year
Like many people, my 2022 was less than stellar. Fortunately, it wasn’t major, life-altering events, although my son’s two reasonably serious accidents were enough to add a few grey hairs to my head. (Didn’t have the same effect on my DH, who is practically bald anyway, but he certainly experienced plenty of stress.) We certainly Continue reading
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Thoughts on a Movie…
This afternoon, for the first time in my life I watched Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’ – a movie which has been on my radar for many years, but somehow I’d never gotten around to watching it. Filmed in 1960, some five years before my arrival on the planet, I’d gotten it built up into a huge Continue reading
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Hallelujah! we’ve kissed goodbye to 2020.
Oh my goodness, I’m glad to see the back of 2020. This was a year that wasn’t particularly kind to any of us, although we here in Australia have gotten off lightly in regard to COVID-19 – certainly when compared to our fellow humans in the United States and many other countries around the world. Continue reading
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Sitting on the flipside
Well, that all went pear-shaped quite quickly. All the way back in March (March!!) I was casually thinking that I might be doing okay, that I could tootle along in my usual fashion and keep on writing. That proved to be extremely optimistic. Along with the rest of the world, I watched the year descend Continue reading
D.S. Williams 