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8th September 2020 Going Postal 3987 Comments

When I was a little girl, the end of August was the time when it was back to school, Miss Lillicrap marching up and down the aisles between the desks and hitting the likes of [more…]

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Doing the “Death Clean”

25th January 2020 Going Postal 1971 Comments

The “Death Clean” was coined by a Swedish woman who, sensibly, decided that, as death is a reality for us all, began it with her own house. I’m doing it with mine. The only certainties [more…]

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Temporary Jobs

22nd August 2019 Going Postal 2920 Comments

I was saddened to learn that Richard Williams has died. He was the Richard Williams of Cartoons. Proper real cartoons with animators drawing the sequences on celluloid just like the Disney bods did back in [more…]

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An Eventful Ride, Part Four

11th August 2019 Going Postal 3882 Comments

Bestie and I were sat in our booth at the gas station’s restaurant at Lee Vining, looking down over Mono Lake. I was still thinking about Clint’s brilliant film “High Plains Drifter”, for this weird [more…]

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An Eventful Ride, Part Three

17th July 2019 Going Postal 3124 Comments

As I live in Cornwall where the temperature rarely gets into the mid seventies Fahrenheit and where , living as I do overlooking the English Channel, the ambient humidity levels are so high, 66% on [more…]

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An Eventful Ride, Part Two

21st June 2019 Colin Cross 1800 Comments

When spending several weeks in Northern California with Bestie, seeing a lynx down by the pond, having a Crystal Meth junkie gal banging on the truck door and then, finally, getting to where we had [more…]

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An Eventful Ride

18th June 2019 Going Postal 2474 Comments

I was spending a few weeks with “Bestie” at her home in Northern California. She has a beautiful house which overlooks her downward sloping meadow, about five acres, at the bottom of which is a [more…]

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My Elderly Aunt

10th June 2019 Going Postal 2900 Comments

As she is so old now and we try to dredge up our shared history, she tells me things I never knew about our family. Her parents, my grandparents fell in love, got it together [more…]

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Chickens

17th April 2019 Going Postal 3098 Comments

I’ve never had enough outdoor space to keep chickens but I’ve always liked chickens, their lovely colours, different sizes and shapes, the way their heads bob up and down, their noises, the flavour of truly [more…]

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