My husband and I were driving down the road when we saw two parrots by the side of the road, one alive, one dead. We were quickly struck with sadness for the living parrot obviously mourning its partner. But the next morning, the thought was still nagging me. How the […]
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I don’t know why they call amphetamines ’speed’.
There are many ways people slow down and the chronic use of speed is one of them.
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I have a compliment I direct towards my closest friends. I call them ‘dag‘.
Now ‘dag‘ is an Australian term referring to a piece of poo left hanging from a sheep’s bottom when caught up in the wool of their tail.
Hardly an endearing term for one’s friends?
Well, ‘dag‘ has had many transitions.
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I was a kid in the 60s, and I remember a big glossy red square with a love heart on it and a man in the middle of the heart which seemed to be looking at me.
Those eyes had a great honesty, no walls. He has a quiet feel to him, almost […]
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I watched MTV or Rage or whatever the music program was on the TV the other morning and there was some skinny blond twiglet singing a line ad nauseum till it sat in my head like an ‘ohrwurm‘ (English translation ‘earworm’…the experience when something goes round and round your head like a broken […]
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We all have had that experience where we know someone but just can’t remember where we know them from. Face Blindness is like this except it happens all the time, even with people you know really really well.
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