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Dougie
Nov 197 min read
If a tree falls in a forest ...
It can be odd the ways in which one's mind plays tricks on us. My mind certainly. Today is the 25th anniversary of my arrival in Australia.
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Dougie
Oct 303 min read
Time for a change
I've made no plans which is simultaneously liberating and -- possibly -- the daftest-plan-ever in a long life of Dougie's daft plans.
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Dougie
Oct 191 min read
Looking for the fourth leaf
They grant us power to see the fairies ... allegedly.
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Dougie
Oct 121 min read
Saturday morning. Spike Deane's garden.
I resist the impulse to offer advice. I know my limits.
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Dougie
Sep 296 min read
Poetic Justice
Not long after you break your neck in three places (in a not-swimming-well-enough accident) people tend to ask a lot of questions.
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Dougie
Jul 206 min read
Not quite Proustian but ... you know.
They do say ... write as if your life depended on it.
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Dougie
May 284 min read
All ears, ginger hair and freckles
Last days of primary school, I think. Maybe 1968 or 69. Look at those ears and the ginger hair!!! The past is indeed a foreign country.
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Dougie
May 262 min read
Small town on a cold autumn morning.
Birthday lunch for Spike Deane from 7° in the car park to a table next to the open fire at Grazing, Gundaroo. As if going back in time.
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Dougie
May 194 min read
Are we, in part, the stories we tell?
This man of a certain age reads autofiction from a parallel universe written by another man of a certain age. The myths of Earth abide.
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Dougie
Apr 142 min read
After breakfast at Some Café
Brunch with Spike Deane in country New South Wales. Off the beaten track. Happy man.
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Dougie
Apr 71 min read
And now, here is the news from BBC Scotland ...
Half a century and more, the signal keeps calling
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Dougie
Apr 11 min read
The law of ... a quiet suburban garden!
Thistle the Cat takes charge.
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Dougie
Mar 316 min read
Give me the child until he is seven ...
In the immortal words of John Lennon ... love is all we need.
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Dougie
Mar 100 min read
Mothers Day, UK
Betty and my younger brother Joe. Mothers Day, Kilmarnock Scotland. ♥️
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Dougie
Feb 232 min read
Of red-haired mice and (this) old man
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men
Gang aft agley,
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Dougie
Jan 131 min read
Storm on a summer's day
Chance of a shower ... said the weather forecast.
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Dougie
Jan 121 min read
A poem in remembrance of Martin
12 January 1943 to 27 January 2018. My friend Martin Currie. We always spoke on the phone this day since coming to Oz.
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