Category: Random Memories
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Transitions
Transition. The dictionary definitions are: 1. Passage from one form, state, style, or place to another. 2.a. Passage from one subject to another in discourse. 2.b. A word, phrase, sentence, or series of sentences connecting one part of a discourse to another. 3. Music 3.a. A modulation, especially a brief one. 3.b. A passage connecting…
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From Iceland to Saturn in the Seventeenth Century and back again
I’ve been questing this evening. Looking for more information to fill in the blanks I have with 1642 and the surrounding years. Although I haven’t filled in any of those blanks with answers, I have filled them with a few more interesting facts and questions. Questions are good, I find, but the answers are obviously…
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Joining the Jet Set
I am honoured to have been nominated for the Versatile Blogger award by Diane. Thank you very much indeed. I’m not particularly well clued up on awards such as this; I was always the last person to be chosen for whatever sporting event I was being forced into doing at school, and that feeling of…
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Guess Who?
I was looking through some old photographs the other day, and came across a couple of class group photos, from, I think, the first and third year of secondary school, and then, even earlier from the sunny days of the infants school that I attended. The secondary school photos were both dour and grey (with…
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Mr Klempsey’s Sweet Shop and Tobacconist
*Shudders* Mr Klempsey (not his real name) was probably the most frightening man you would ever want to meet. He would peer at whoever entered his tiny shop through a little space in the counter. He would serve every customer through this space if he could, but the sweet shop was on one side and…
The Mansionic Perspective 