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Archives for 2019

Pink or red. Let’s be definite!

In the second drawer you will find the collection of gems, paperclips and spare pencils.

The draft document may be there as well.

Best to take a photograph of the contents, make notes, write your name on the top page, add the date, file it and then take a vaccination against becoming a bureaucrat.

Now it’s time to hum a tune, add lyrics and try out the result on a few unsuspecting friends.

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Up for grabs.

Then, it’s nothing special.

What is not “up for anything” is a candidate for the hall of quality, value and delirious reward.

Now it’s time to take a sip, look around and listen.

Scratch a mark on the gatepost so you remember it twenty years from now.

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We were looking for the lesser striped lemur or its cousin, like our third cousin once-removed and once-detained.

Occasionally we wish that someone set in the same picture frame of our lives would behave differently.

Often the “way they are” is their choice. Once in a while, there is one who is out of control, their own and everybody else’s.

We hope they entertain and bring levity and mirth to many people.

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Recovering salt cellars and the targets of silk.

Dwindling darkness and recovering daylight delivered a message of empathy and leaderlike strength.

Shockingly bright pink strata delighted the sky and those looking at it in awe.

Deliveries were being made of milk , honey and oysters – someone thought this was everything you could possibly need.

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Distribute cookies at a suitable wedding, then book a flight.

The adventure that started a movement, which caused singing and neat and succinct legal briefs.

When the sun rises one fifth and a bottle of smooth quince juice is offered as a gift, then and only then open the envelope.

Talking of briefs, what caused the brief to be replaced by the boxer and the chat and greeting to be replaced by a grunt, we do not know.

Magical mysteries fuel the cascade of logic once again.

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