Poetic Justice
Not long after you break your neck in three places (in a not-swimming-well-enough accident) people tend to ask a lot of questions.
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Dougie
- Jul 20
- 6 min
Not quite Proustian but ... you know.
They do say ... write as if your life depended on it.
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Dougie
- May 28
- 4 min
All ears, ginger hair and freckles
Last days of primary school, I think. Maybe 1968 or 69. Look at those ears and the ginger hair!!! The past is indeed a foreign country.
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Dougie
- May 26
- 2 min
Small town on a cold autumn morning.
Birthday lunch for Spike Deane from 7° in the car park to a table next to the open fire at Grazing, Gundaroo. As if going back in time.
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Dougie
- May 19
- 4 min
Are we, in part, the stories we tell?
This man of a certain age reads autofiction from a parallel universe written by another man of a certain age. The myths of Earth abide.
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Dougie
- Apr 14
- 2 min
After breakfast at Some Café
Brunch with Spike Deane in country New South Wales. Off the beaten track. Happy man.
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Dougie
- Apr 7
- 1 min
And now, here is the news from BBC Scotland ...
Half a century and more, the signal keeps calling
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Dougie
- Apr 1
- 1 min
The law of ... a quiet suburban garden!
Thistle the Cat takes charge.
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Dougie
- Mar 31
- 6 min
Give me the child until he is seven ...
In the immortal words of John Lennon ... love is all we need.
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Dougie
- Mar 10
- 0 min
Mothers Day, UK
Betty and my younger brother Joe. Mothers Day, Kilmarnock Scotland. ♥️
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Dougie
- Feb 23
- 2 min
Of red-haired mice and (this) old man
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men
Gang aft agley,
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Dougie
- Jan 13
- 1 min
Storm on a summer's day
Chance of a shower ... said the weather forecast.
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Dougie
- Jan 11
- 1 min
A poem in remembrance of Martin
12 January 1943 to 27 January 2018. My friend Martin Currie. We always spoke on the phone this day since coming to Oz.
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Dougie
- Jan 3
- 0 min
And the technical term is ... warm.
30 plus degrees outside. A tad warmer inside. I waited because discretion is the better part of ... being a numptie.
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Dougie
- Jan 2
- 1 min
Not the deadliest of nightshades by any measure ...
Solanum nigrum, Solanum americanum ... to be all Latin and botanical about it.
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Dougie
- Dec 31, 2023
- 0 min
Happy New Year
Canberra cancels the Midnight fireworks. We have our own. At home.
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Dougie
- Dec 31, 2023
- 1 min
Traditional Hogmanay Homemade Laksa
The final meal of 2024. At home with Spike Deane.
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Dougie
- Dec 30, 2023
- 0 min
Living the dream ... or what?
Spike Deane has a new coffee machine. And a surprisingly stylish $3 mug from K-Mart. Living the dream or what?
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Dougie
- Dec 28, 2023
- 1 min
In Spike's garden after days of heavy rain
I worked from home today. Spike drew my attention to these small plants. Like monochrome cocktail umbrellas.
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