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Conversations with Strangers: The Man on the Train
Conversations with Strangers: On the Buses
Random stranger, another conversation. Chatterboxes and solar panels being just a couple of key topics on the agenda this time!
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Conversations with strangers: Are shoes worth fighting for?
Trips to the Maldives, and fights over charity shop shoes….more things that came up in conversations with strangers!!
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Conversations with Strangers: Cakes and Suitcases ✈️
This time we talked packing for flights, bottles of rum, house prices and baking cakes. Conversations with strangers can work more wonders than you’ll ever know!!
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Time for a Quick Cuppa? Pop the Kettle on.
Idle chatter about nothing in particular, just belly buttons, bananas, toasters and a few other things!!!
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Conversations with Strangers: A mother on a mission.
Window shopping, and more conversations with strangers Sometimes I wonder where these conversations come from! This time I found myself talking to a sales assistant in a department store – I’ll call her Belinda. Belinda is a great sales person I might add, not pushy at all – she convinced […]
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Come Dine With Me: Keeping Out of the Kitchen
Quick Cuppa: Mr Perfect and Dodgy Straws!
Conversations with Strangers
The other day I spotted one of those charity fundraising reps whilst walking through a shopping mall, they were all in uniform, they had a stand set up and there were about four of them; (I’d had a long day and just wanted to grab something quickly from the supermarket […]
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A Tuk-Tuk for Two by Adam Fletcher, Holidays With Strangers!!
When conversations with strangers lead to catching flights to India with them the same week, racing Tuk-Tuks amidst good old Indian traffic!! Have you or would you ever…?
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How To Be Idle!! Is Laziness Misunderstood?
Calling all deep thinkers and philosophers of life, lets ponder on what is means to be idle, attitudes to laziness and whether we’ve got the whole notion completely wrong!!
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Are Charity Shops Misunderstood?
Are charity shops just second hand and cheap? Do the neediest people buy your donated items? A testimony from a Big Issue seller helps shed some light!
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Breakfast with a stranger
An early start That morning, I had breakfast with a stranger, not something that tends to happen often; maybe it happened because I was in the ‘friendlier north’ of the UK, where speaking to a stranger isn’t seen as being quite so weird. “Sorry, I nearly sat in your seat” […]
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Rethinking Christmas Movie Favourites!! 15 Alternative Reviews with a Twist!!
Warning: May contain sarcasm.
15 Christmas movie favourites, with a twist, read on for the bits missing from the official synopsis.
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10 Things to do in The Bahamas
A few ideas to help you plan your Bahamas list of things to do; such as mingling with flamingos at the Adastra Gardens and Zoo, shopping in Bay Street, and wandering through the aquarium at the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island.
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How to Overcome Writer’s Block with these 11 Tips
Trying to overcome writer’s block is a bit like keeping a car engine running smoothly before it starts to seize up – it regularly requires a good run, good oil and good fuel. Similarly, a writer’s mind runs on a similar principle – it needs feeding with ‘things’ that help […]
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22 Rumours about your Morocco Holiday: Setting the Record Straight!
What you need to know about Morocco before your first trip – lets examine the hype. I found most of these 22 rumours to be true!!
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Move Over Marrakech: We’re Off to Essaouira, The Santorini of Morocco!
Essaouira is quite literally a breath of Moroccan fresh sea air, known for its hippy vibe and grecian looking buildings.
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Never A Dull Moment: Entering The Fourth Age
The notion of a fourth age, what an interesting and very relevant topic!! I’m probably not the only one noticing the not so subtle increase in self service machines and reduction in humanly manned check out tills in shops/banks/post offices these days, or the general creeping momentum around all things […]
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The Oath by Frank Peretti
The Oath was a hefty hardback book, and not quick at getting to the crux of the story. But what a strange story! A small town seems to be harbouring a big scary secret that nobody dares talk about; there’s a thick fog of fear hovering over everyone in this […]
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A Few Irritating Things
‘You’ve Been Framed’ When people say “I’m not gonna lie….” (hmmm, do you normally lie!). A selfish person. Wind and rain at the same time (unless I’m indoors). When people eat with their mouth open. When people start crunching crisps before they close their mouth, so it echoes loudly across the […]
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An Interview With A Revolutionary: Fidel Castro and Cuba
The history of Cuba can’t ignore the influence of Fidel Castro. Ignacio Ramonet interviews Castro and compiles it in this book.
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Yellow Submarine, well not quite!
Since I’d never been on a submarine before, and I adore tropical fish – this seemed like really good excursion to cross off the list whilst in Barbados. Now we cross over from our boat to the submarine Down the hatch (not for the claustrophobic) Know your fish. At this point […]
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What’s Your Type? 12 Tourist Types
Most of us are probably a mixture of types, depending on where we are, the mood we’re in, and who we are with. On the whole, I’d say I’m the ‘photographer type’, I just can’t stop taking pictures of everything when I’m on holiday. I carry about 20 memory cards, […]
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The National Gallery: art and history combined
Art galleries are great places to pass time, ponder your own thoughts, and feast the artistic eye. There is something very calming about art galleries, regardless of whether you find any appreciation in the art. The National Gallery is oozing with historic pieces. I am amazed at the beauty and incredible size […]
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