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Dougie
May 13, 20222 min read
Those are 16 hours I'm never getting back
Word of advice ... Never -- I mean JAMAIS ... never get on a plane for 14 hours in the cheap seats with a tired, grumpy, Scottish...
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Dougie
May 12, 20223 min read
It's been 6 long years
And so it begins. After six long years ... a new job (which is not so new now) and bush fires and more than two years of a pandemic that...
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Dougie
Apr 21, 20221 min read
I'm only human ...
It may well be possible that in the 'heat' of debate our Prime Minister misspoke on telly. But it's not simply "one word" as some have...
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douglasherd5
Apr 15, 20221 min read
Good Friday
Sitting in Spike Deane's garden. Doing nothing in the late autumn sun. We have lots of these.
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Dougie
Jan 19, 20221 min read
Every cloud has a silver lining
My desk, working from home. Computer, 2 screens, phone, tea pot and fairy cake. Workplace essentials.
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Dougie
Jan 15, 202213 min read
Margaret and the Dali
I wrote this short story in May 2016 as part of my assessed work for a Creative Writing course at the Australian National University.
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Dougie
Jan 6, 20227 min read
At least Nero fiddled while his Government did nothing
Tuesday was our first day back at work after the New Year holiday. And what a day it was in many ways ...
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Dougie
Oct 20, 20212 min read
Chris Crowley
My friend Chris Crowley died overnight in a hospital bed in Wales. He had been unconscious for a week or more. He had been given a...
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Dougie
Sep 23, 20214 min read
Sundown
for my dear friend Chris It is three minutes to five on an exquisite Canberra spring day. I'm sitting under the fading sun of the late...
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Dougie
Sep 9, 20211 min read
This'll get us through lockdown
Spike's garden begins to bloom
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Dougie
Apr 13, 20215 min read
A legend in my own living room
It is odd the way an old man’s mind works. Fact is, it's amazing my mind still works at all. Me and my mind, you see. We have been around...
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Dougie
Jan 18, 20215 min read
Party ... like it's 1959
even as I celebrate my mother’s ninety years by writing something -- there is a different sort of sadness (by which I mean, not COVID-relate
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Dougie
Jan 4, 20216 min read
Things they do not tell you while in traction
I return to the post-Christmas, post-New-Year, post-holiday world of normality. My normality. It's the first working day of the year.
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douglasherd5
Dec 3, 20201 min read
UN International Day of People With Disability 2020
Build Back Better Speaking alongside Bill Shorten MP (the man who should have been our PM ... and may yet be one day) in Australia's...
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Dougie
Sep 14, 20204 min read
What really matters, BJ?
At its inception the idea of a place dedicated to the end of life, palliative care of people with HIV / AIDS was controversial.
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Dougie
Jun 7, 202012 min read
The Reunion Quartet
Short story submission #6 to daily writing challenge 'Like the Prose' (1 complete story per day for a month). Original submitted 7/6/20
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Dougie
Apr 5, 20201 min read
Unwittingly inviting in the very thing we fear
Social media is ... as we know ... a Trojan Horse. Our willing reliance on it allows the algorithms to suck out the bone marrow of our...
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Dougie
Apr 4, 20201 min read
Vale Bill Withers
This. Today. So sad. So much part of a boy's growing up. Stay safe. Stay connected. Slow dance when you 'do disco'. Any time you can.
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Dougie
Apr 2, 20201 min read
The past is a different country ...
I intend to take #COVID19Aus physical distancing to logical extreme. Looking for second-hand DeLorean to head back to 1973 to "be...
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