Category: life etc.
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SUMMER SESSION- THE LIST
The summer is upon us and we are not broken because the barbarians at the gates will not win. Whilst we live to fight another day, let’s try and get some joy for summer and beyond because it is much needed. Welcome to the soft summer or summer of softness or soft girl season… whatever…
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SUMMER ROMANCE
Sooooo… I have a bone to pick, and I am in a fighting mood. Who are you people who turn your noses up at romance novels and beach reads? Who are you heathens that think because one is not talking about blowing stuff up or spies or gore or a dog, God help me, it…
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UKRAINE-RUSSIA TAKE 2.
Well, well, well. The world is an ever-loving skip fire these days. Is that the right phrase? I could not possibly post anything else without a follow up to this article. I remember where I was when those two planes plunged into the World Trade Centre in 2011 and I remember waking up a year…
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WHAT’S GOING ON BETWEEN RUSSIA & UKRAINE?
There is an increased likelihood of a Russian invasion or incursion into Ukraine, at the moment, 100,000 Russian military is assembled on the Ukrainian border, and the world is on edge. A war in the Black Sea is not just limited to the countries that border it, this affects the rest of the world. All…
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EMPATHY
A word that has been going round in my head for a while now. In the words of Will Smith and a few others who have said it lately, “everyone is going through something” no matter how sunny their disposition, how cheery their demeanour or the buoyancy of their behaviour… everyone is going through it.…
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TAKE THE KNEE
I am a football fan. An Arsenal fan. In the world cup I support England and Nigeria and, in both teams, it almost always ends in heartbreak because we cheer with our hearts knowing that our boys may not make it… in England’s case we have been waiting since 1966 and although I was not…
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A FIDDLE-LEAF FIG WILL HUMBLE YOU
I don’t like plants… I DO NOT LIKE PLANTS AT ALL. They are so alive and needy… it is almost like having a pet you keep forgetting you have until you remember and the nerves hit. Over the past couple of years I have amassed and killed a few plants because with plants, you just…
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SPRING | A REBIRTH
Spring. A season of rebirth and hope and harvest. It gives us a reason to look forward to the days ahead. Nothing is more hopeful that this particular season of harvest. We make plans but with caution, coming out of this pandemic has left us all, all of us with an indelible scar. We are…
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WHAT’S HAPPENING… IN TIGRAY
In 2020, whilst the events in the US rode roughshod over everything else, political or otherwise, around the globe, there was a conflict brewing in the East of Africa, the horn of the continent, in Ethiopia, between the Tigray tribe and its federal government. So what is happening in Tigray? Let’s take a short walk…