Category: Time
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Warmed to the bone?
I don’t know whether it’s cold or not any more. I mean, I know it’s cold… I can see my breath when I walk outside, and there’s a definite chill in the air, and it’s Winter, so, all things considered, it should be cold. The heating in the Mansion is on full blast. Searing hot…
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Loves of times gone by
St Valentine’s Day. A day to reminisce. A day to look back and ponder those loves from the past. Those important yesteryear moments. Sigh. Like the Lincoln biscuit. Gone but not forgotten. Round and bobbly and no longer around. Celery Soup. Tinned Celery Soup. I think that vanished from the shops some time in the…
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Strange Voices on St Valentine’s Eve
Or Friday 13th, if you’re superstitious about such things. I was born on a 13th, so I’m OK with things like that. In the Mansion in my mind, Thomasina’s decking the halls and singing her current favourite song. If ever an ear-worm was ever needed, I’d have to say ‘Mickey’ by Toni Basil would most…
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Alternative Voices
I always class St Valentine’s Day as Halloween, because of the horrors it brings to mind. The fact that I like Halloween, and dislike Valentine’s, is by the by. Both are days geared around us spending as much money as we can on some piece of tat or other, but the delightful frights around Halloween…