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April 15, 2020 Family - I didn't choose them / observations from domesticity / Ramblings of a mad man

Adding some words about Covid-19 to the huge pile of them that have already been written.

Some words about Covid-19 the lockdown and being lucky to live in New Zealand

April 24, 2019 Family - I didn't choose them / Travel (broadens the mind)

A lovely visit to Wellington

We’ve just come home from a lovely weekend in Wellington.  The coolest little capital in the world apparently.  We went

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November 29, 2017 Family - I didn't choose them / General muttering / observations from domesticity

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the internet…

Hello world, Hope you’re well. I’ve been a tad busy and have ignored the Mathom House for far too long.

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October 2, 2013 Family - I didn't choose them / General muttering / Ramblings of a mad man

Always waiting for someone

I never knew how patient my mother was until I sat for hours waiting for my teenager daughter to return

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September 19, 2013 Family - I didn't choose them / Poetry for the non poetic / Ramblings of a mad man

Voices

The dead walk among us My mother joined me on my walk this evening I wandered past a place we’d

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January 2, 2013 Family - I didn't choose them / General muttering / Ramblings of a mad man

There’s Wisdom in the Words of the Wise

Went for a walk with Katie (6) this morning. She had asked to join me on one of my morning

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Dad, me and a Holden
October 4, 2012 Family - I didn't choose them

Far too early to tell…

Sixteen years ago on 5 October my dad died. I was 30 and he 64. I was rather fond of

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August 21, 2012 Family - I didn't choose them / Ramblings of a mad man

The Years Before My Death

I love this phrase. It’s the title of the autobiography David McPhail a Christchurch lawyer, actor and comedian. It is

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June 1, 2012 Family - I didn't choose them / Ramblings of a mad man / Travel (broadens the mind)

An update from up here (36,000 ft over the USA)

There’s nothing like a 5 and half flight from Toronto to San Francisco to allow one to catch up on

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December 22, 2010 Family - I didn't choose them / observations from domesticity

Goodbye mother dear.

My lovely mum died on Thursday 9 September 2010. According to her death certificate she died from an acute myocardial

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