Month: February 2020

Getting married in New Orleans

In spite of all the depressing fear-making material about the coronavirus, the dreadful weather, nonsense about climate change (the climate is always changing!) each day is a new day full of potential. My only problem is that when the sun comes out, the light is very bright and I'm going to have to start wearing dark glasses and we are barely into March. Wetherspoon's is a lively place at the...

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Greta comes to town – my childhood

Earlier this week, the George Soros funded and programmed Greta Thunberg announced by text that she was coming over to UK to relate to the kids and take part in what turned out to be a march culminating in a speech at Palace Green in Bristol.  When I heard about it, I prayed for bad weather to keep the numbers down because I hate seeing attempted brainwashing by this ignorant girl who has no...

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Petty shop theft – what to do?

You might be aware that shoplifting costs an estimated £335 million to the UK economy. I don't do that much shopping in department stores but I was at Lidl today when a woman right in front of me reached over to the little temptation alley, the area by the till where they offer you all sorts of things you forgot you needed, and put it in her pocket. She had a suspicious smile on her face, more...

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Our Civil Partnership application

Françoise and myself have as we used to say been 'living in sin' for the last 10 years. Now is the time to become regularised which we are going to do through a Civil Partnership. Until recently, these used to be only available to people of the same sex but now this procedure is available to anyone as an alternative to a church marriage.  For those thinking of it, we will be walking you through...

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Why do I write this diary?

With coming up to 900 entries - actually 894 and  640,400 words (587,287 words in War and Peace) this has definitely become a habit, very unusual as a discipline for a Gemini, for ever looking for new stimuli. I can give a number of reasons or perhaps rationalizations why I write. # it's a very good way of venting emotions # it's a good way to emotionally stabilise myself # writing down how I...

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A fugitive of themselves – face to face discussion

This is the person I referred to a few days ago in my diary, the person who drinks an estimated 40 pints per week. The time is 10 o'clock and the place is Wetherspoon's. This time they don't have anyone with them. This evening I went to my men's group, this time held in a traditional cottage in Coleford which is somewhat South of Radstock. There was no particular subject for the evening except...

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