Bloganuary Day 7: okay, I think I’ve got this… What makes you laugh? Just as our musical preferences tend to become established by our late teens, so I think it is with our tastes in humour. As a teenager in the late sixties and early seventies, in comedy terms I grew up largely on a…
Bloganuary Day 5: Really? Only day 5? What is something you wish you knew how to do? Hmmm. Tricky. I can think of plenty of things I wish I could do better. Speak French, for a start; cook; take photographs. The list is almost endless because pretty much anything I can do could be done…
Bloganuary Day 4 – hanging in there What was your favourite toy as a child? Although I was obviously too young to remember, apparently my favourite toy when I was just a baby was a teddy bear called ‘Growly’*, so named because if you squeezed his belly he….well, growled. At least he did until I…
Day 3 of ‘Bloganuary’: still sticking to it. Write about the last time you left your comfort zone Believe me, I know exactly when I was last out of my comfort zone. I am pleased to report that I spend the vast majority of my life firmly entrenched inside my comfort zone, for three excellent…
Song Lyric Sunday has a bit of a ‘hidden agenda’ to it this week. We are looking for something a bit saucy – risqué, indeed. ‘Empty Bed Blues’ is a sad but simple tale of a young lady with painful forearms whose sometimes absent boyfriend – a beret-wearing deep-sea diver, no less – is a…
“Philosophers are only men in armour, after all” – Charles Dickens: ‘The Pickwick Papers’ – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 17 March 2021
“We are always ready to despise a goal which we have not succeeded in reaching” – Proust: ‘The Sweet Cheat Gone’ (Albertine Disparue) – – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 6 January 2021
“The situation, without of course being of an alarming nature, might well be envisaged as serious and even, from certain angles, as susceptible of being regarded as critical” – Proust: ‘The Sweet Cheat Gone’ (Albertine Disparue) – – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 30 December 2020
“I treated this day in a similar fashion, allowing [it]…..to pass without doing anything, and vowing that I would begin to work on the morrow” – Proust: The Captive (La Prisonnière) – – – – – – – – – – – One-Liner Wednesday 7 October 2020
“It is splendid to be advanced, one can never be advanced enough” – Proust: Cities Of The Plain (Sodome et Gomorrhe) – – – – – – – – – – One-Liner Wednesday 3 September 2020
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