Windflowers

Thursday, 27 June 2024

Labours of Hercules and lessons learned

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King Eurystheus set Hercules originally ten monumental tasks to achieve. Despite these being incredibly difficult, King Euythesus ultimately...
Monday, 10 June 2024

Breaking things

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  It came yesterday, borrowed from a relative, and stirred up old forgotten memories. Of struggling to thread up a pedal singer sewing machi...
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Monday, 29 April 2024

Green mounds, murdering ancestors and the ages of man

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Some objects fill our landscape, but we just don’t see them. Growing up in Northern Ireland these mounds were everywhere.  I can remember se...
Wednesday, 3 April 2024

Beatrice a hundred year old mystery

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My grandmother died aged 25 when my father was only 14 months old. One of the few photos we have is her sitting with him, a baby on her lap....
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Saturday, 23 March 2024

Courtesy is such an old-fashioned word but a wonderful art indeed

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  She had a warm smile of greeting and she spoke kindly showing careful loving attention towards all guests. Her open heart welcomed you to ...
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Sunday, 3 March 2024

Doer of good

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Dear Friend (you know who you are!),  Doer of good remorselessly.  Placing wreaths on old graves.  Remembering lost ones over decades.  Tidy...
Wednesday, 21 February 2024

Mystery of the Missing Earbuds

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I lost my expensive Wi-Fi earbuds. I looked everywhere, under things behind sofas, and then in the most unlikely places, drawers and coat po...
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Born in Canada, went to Australia for a few years, brought up in Northern Ireland, lived on Greek island for ten years.
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Born in Canada, went to Australia for a few years, brought up in Northern Ireland, lived on Greek island for ten years.
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