Quick Cuppa: Mystery Books, Homeless Hustlers and Popcorn for Dogs!
Another quick cuppa, with some idle chit chat about nothing in particular, just a bit of painting, popcorn, and blind dates with books.
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Forgotten Photographs
Including a crowd of magpies, long queues, digital laundrettes and encouraging words!
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Quick Cuppa: Mr Perfect and Dodgy Straws!
Kettle’s On Again: Price Tags and Chicken Burgers
Conversations with Strangers: Location Location Location!
Conversations with Strangers: The Man on the Train
Quick Brew? Auctioning my Sunglasses and other things!
Time for another quick brew and some idle chit chat…including loo awards and sunglasses!!!
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Quick Cuppa: dogs and Greggs amongst other things
Dogs, Greggs and sunflowers amongst other random idle chit chat. Calling all fashionistas, is Greggs the new black?
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Quick Cuppa: Dogs in Nappies and other things
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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Cuppa? Birds, Bargains and Other Things
A Quick Brew and a Quick Toast
Another cuppa, a quick natter about nothing much, and a toast to each and every one of you.
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Another Quick Cuppa?
More idle chatter about nothing in particular – just eating bugs, crunching rocks, back problems thanks to the gym, hypnotists and other random things.
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Forgotten Notebooks: Good Morning from a Hotel Room Window
More random reflections from a hotel room window, or perhaps just a ramble about nothing depending on how you look at things!
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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: 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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Pandemic Life Changes 2020 and Beyond
U turns, big life changes, new priorities? The pandemic has led some of us heading down new paths and in new directions, and perhaps inspiring others while we’re at it.
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Fancy A Cuppa: Lets Talk Travel Moments
It’s amazing what a little bit of imagination and a few travel memories can do!!
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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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Road Rage
Road rage, maybe there should be a highway code sign for this, placed strategically on certain junctions, and anger hotspots!! My poor taxi driver nearly exploded, that time when…..
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Hate Going on Holiday? Or is it a Love Hate Relationship?
So what’s your position, do you hate going on holiday, is the agro of planning and packing all too much, or is that all part of the fun? Are you a holiday hater?
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Time Out: Give Yourself a Break
Are you due for some time out? I’m talking about taking a break, getting away, an escape from the daily grind – a much needed mental and perhaps a physical rest. Maybe some time alone to flop around with no demands on your attention. The freedom to think, read, write, […]
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Time for a Cuppa: Read all about it!
The guy in the picture above doesn’t look very comfortable, one false move and he might tear! Let’s sink into that nice deep soft sofa, feet up and relax while we have another natter about nothing in particular – just crazy clocks, newspapers and a message about germs!! Tell it […]
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Strange dreams when you’re busy sleeping
The mysterious business of sleeping and dreaming is full of unanswered questions, like the meaning of dreams, and how we can be deeply asleep when the brain is wide awake!
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Kicking yourself? What are the most expensive mistakes you’ve ever made?
So what are the most expensive mistakes you’ve ever made? Some mistakes cost us physically – like stepping on an upturned plug or chewing raw chillies. Other mistakes may take an emotional toll, but today we’re talking about the mistakes that hit us hard in the purse and wallet, like […]
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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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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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Fear Kills
Seas, Oceans, Waves
Calm, relaxed and at peace, that’s how I feel when I’m near the sea, hearing the waves, feasting on an infinite ocean view, my mind is clearer and thoughts come to me more easily. The sea seems charged with emotion, sometimes it’s still, unassuming and beckoning, then within hours, minutes […]
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The Prisons You Build for Yourself
Do you ever feel trapped by your doubts and fears – like you just can’t move past them? Are you stuck in a psychological rut? Get out of your prison….the metal bars are your own anxieties, your own thoughts. Give yourself a ‘get out of jail free card’ by shifting the way you think.
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Life’s A Beach
Like the tide, life’s moments come and go Sometimes fast, sometimes slow Sometimes gently, sometimes with intensity Like the infinite horizon, life’s possibilities are endless The choices we can make, and actions we choose to take Like the grains of sand, we are many, spread far and wide, the human […]
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It’s Disappointing, but it’s your Issue
Sometimes you struggle to recognise that when someone lets you down, it’s not necessarily about you. It’s not ‘because’ of you or anything you did or didn’t/should or shouldn’t have done. Very often, it’s about them – their baggage, their mentality and their maturity level. In effect, they have let […]
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Fancy A Cuppa?
Get the kettle on then, grab those biscuits and get comfy, it’s time for another random chat. Tea The tea I’m drinking is from a decorative box of Sri Lankan tea that someone brought back for me as a gift from their holiday there, before the Easter massacre in Sri […]
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You Know You Need A Break When….. (10 Tell Tale Signs)🤯
We all have moments where we’re out of steam, lacking a bit of zest or doing silly things that we”d likely scoff at if it was anyone else, so try and take the hint the next time you find yourself pouring fruit juice on your cereal!
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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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Because
Just sharing a few of tonight’s random thoughts. Writing it down and reading it back really got me thinking and re-affirming a few things I want to do more. You persist Because it’s worth it You invest Because the harvest will be plentiful You try Because otherwise you’ll never know […]
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Fly Away
Amazing Isn’t it amazing that we live in an age where we can just hop on a plane and go more or less anywhere on the planet in matter of hours, or pick up and leave one country and choose to start a new life in another…. Our ability to […]
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Nothing
Sometimes we need time to simply be, without doing. Time to give our mind and body a rest, soak up a moment of nothing.
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Money
It comes, it goes Sometimes it flows Why we don’t abolish it, nobody knows It fuels emotions and creates many woes Invest it wisely and sometimes it grows Share if you care, share if you can Think about your future and start making a plan Money changes lives, creates competition, […]
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Autumn
As with earthly seasons, life also has it’s seasons. We reach points in life where we instinctively know that something needs to change. It’s time for this, that or the other. Autumn is probably the season that gives me this feeling the most, particularly September; maybe it’s because of the […]
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