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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.
Dougie
Sep 29, 20246 min read


Not quite Proustian but ... you know.
They do say ... write as if your life depended on it.
Dougie
Jul 20, 20246 min read


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.
Dougie
Jan 11, 20241 min read


Martin Currie
Anyone who wins the best dressed man at the Galway Races, -- without knowing that's 'a thing' -- undeniably has sprawl.
Dougie
Jan 12, 20233 min read


"the quiet of the day far from the roar of the sun."*
It is in days such as today I find myself. Quiet, simple days where not much happens on the surface. Time passes slowly. I am with people...
Dougie
Jun 4, 20223 min read


In the immortal words of John McEnroe ...
You cannot be serious! We took a mid-morning train to Edinburgh Waverley. As far as I know, it's the only train station named after a...
Dougie
Jun 3, 20224 min read


The Journey Home ... delayed by a deer on the tracks
The promenade at Weymouth is a peaceful place at seven o'clock on a Sunday morning. The only sounds are those of the natural world. The...
Dougie
May 29, 20226 min read
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