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blethers: Another birthday, more memories ...
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Blether - n. foolish chatter. - v.intr. chatter foolishly [ME blather, f. ON blathra talk nonsense f. blathr nonsense]" - Concise Oxford Dictionary. Monday, February 23, 2015. Another birthday, more memories . Having a baby in Dunoon - and are babies still born here, I wonder? Was very different from my. And so began the juggling that is the lot of anyone with more than one child . So, #2 son, if you read this from wherever in the world your extraordinary job takes you, this shows once more how much more...
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blethers: I'm back ....
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Blether - n. foolish chatter. - v.intr. chatter foolishly [ME blather, f. ON blathra talk nonsense f. blathr nonsense]" - Concise Oxford Dictionary. Saturday, March 28, 2015. The pollution proved a greater problem. A cyclo ride through central HCM City meant sitting in an. And that by visiting we were assisting in the recovery of a country that had only recently torn itself apart in a particularly brutal civil war, but I'm still thinking about it. I learned a great deal. Mr B and I were among the last in...
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blethers: February 2015
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Blether - n. foolish chatter. - v.intr. chatter foolishly [ME blather, f. ON blathra talk nonsense f. blathr nonsense]" - Concise Oxford Dictionary. Monday, February 23, 2015. Another birthday, more memories . Having a baby in Dunoon - and are babies still born here, I wonder? Was very different from my. And so began the juggling that is the lot of anyone with more than one child . So, #2 son, if you read this from wherever in the world your extraordinary job takes you, this shows once more how much more...
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blethers: A glimpse of heaven
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Blether - n. foolish chatter. - v.intr. chatter foolishly [ME blather, f. ON blathra talk nonsense f. blathr nonsense]" - Concise Oxford Dictionary. Friday, April 10, 2015. A glimpse of heaven. The largest religious monument in the world. I am hauled off the coach to have my photo taken, and return with an entrance card round my neck. The photo on it looks pale, wary. My photo. My earpiece crackles. After sunrise, meet under that banyan tree. I can see our guide pointing left. The tree referred to is...
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blethers: Being Wilma, or a day in the life of a church organist.
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Blether - n. foolish chatter. - v.intr. chatter foolishly [ME blather, f. ON blathra talk nonsense f. blathr nonsense]" - Concise Oxford Dictionary. Monday, April 27, 2015. Being Wilma, or a day in the life of a church organist. I shared the joke on the right the other day, on my Facebook page. Dead funny, eh? Now we can't tell from this picture if Wilma is any good at the organ. After all, she's a wee old wifie who'd be fair game for a sneer anyway. But that's not the point. This is:. She wishes they wo...
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blethers: November 2014
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Blether - n. foolish chatter. - v.intr. chatter foolishly [ME blather, f. ON blathra talk nonsense f. blathr nonsense]" - Concise Oxford Dictionary. Monday, November 24, 2014. When the lights come on at four . I'll do it tomorrow. However, I've discovered that it's a mistake to try to line up meaningful activities to tick off as part of these apparently declining years. The mental energy just isn't there. Mental energy, note - not physical. That's less abundant too, of course, though normally...I spent a...
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blethers: April 2014
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Blether - n. foolish chatter. - v.intr. chatter foolishly [ME blather, f. ON blathra talk nonsense f. blathr nonsense]" - Concise Oxford Dictionary. Wednesday, April 30, 2014. I am one of the age group who sat the very first Scottish O-Grade. Because I attended a selective senior secondary school,. By the time I reached my last exams (what were they in S5? 17 again . that's another matter. Ah There's something I forgot to mention: I experimented with cigarettes, in exam leave. Daring, huh? Well you might...
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blethers: June 2014
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Blether - n. foolish chatter. - v.intr. chatter foolishly [ME blather, f. ON blathra talk nonsense f. blathr nonsense]" - Concise Oxford Dictionary. Saturday, June 21, 2014. I started writing this before the current spell of dry weather, when I was longing for it to look and feel like summer. As the solstice is rather cloudier than anything we've seen in the past week, it seems a suitable time to finish it off and publish it. As I step outside. The damp, birdsong air opens wide. A hidden bird repeats why.
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blethers: September 2014
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Blether - n. foolish chatter. - v.intr. chatter foolishly [ME blather, f. ON blathra talk nonsense f. blathr nonsense]" - Concise Oxford Dictionary. Monday, September 29, 2014. Normandy Fahrt Day 3: Omaha Beach. We spent our third day in France reliving the American experience on Omaha Beach. I felt I knew most of what happened there from endless re-runs of The Longest Day. Shot on location: we saw photos of local involvement in the filming) and the more recent Saving Private Ryan. Links to this post.
