When is a Planet no longer a Planet?

“Comic Frustrations”What a lovely phrase – and sums up a lot of isolated incidents that have occurred in our life over the last few weeks. I discovered the other night, whilst talking to my friend that Pluto was behind all the mischief which has been emanating this year from a hidden source. Well it couldn’t [...]

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Writing Quotation and Prompt

 
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers” Voltaire.
 
So today write a poem or short piece of prose with this piece of practical advice contained within.  
 
Advice: If you are struggling with short stories or a longer work [...]

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Martin Peel

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Musing in Meltdown.

“Where you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness within you. Then the chaotic movement around you will never overshadow your access to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality” Deepak Chopra
A day off-sick. Well I am sick – sick and tired of being dragged by [...]

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The Day after a Storm

Hi dear blog….
No amount of possessions or gratification could ever fill the gap between us and the world. So we’re looking for something, thirsty for something, always dissatisfied. In Buddhism they call this trishna, thirst. Like hungry ghosts we are thirsting endlessly for something we can never get.[To] be grateful for and with what is, [...]

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A Thought to Ponder

Thought: Life is difficult enough without taking on crows with broken wings…

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In Case of Emergency…

As many of you know my youngest son Toby was in an accident in November which has left him severly brain injured and he is now thankfully in recovery.
 
One of the moments of that night which has haunted us ever since [...]

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When you think the world can’t get any more exciting – they find a bomb…

Well just when I don’t think my world can get any more exciting, there is a bomb.  Not a metaphoric bomb, or an analogy for other things going wrong in my world – but a real bomb.  A World War II Bomb… well that is the rumour.  In reality it is probably a piece of Victorian drain pipe, [...]

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We have a cunning plan

We had a phone call from Toby’s consultant yesterday, the plans to replace his skull are being stepped up and we are aiming for an end of July operation.Unfortunately though the scalp has shrunk and might be compromised if the original bone skull cap is replaced, so the “cunning plan” is to now put a [...]

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Where do old ironboards go?

Any thoughts on what to do with a redundant iron-board – one which has faithfully served for the last 25 years.  You can’t throw it away because you have been so much together, but….Perhaps there is a little ironing-board graveyard in the sky?  I dictated this on my Dictaphone a while back, and I can hear Bruce [...]

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