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Thoughts on leaving as a guest. I have known my friend John for about 40 years and there aren't that many people that I can say that I have had relationships of such duration. People often drift away from each other and although they might meet occasionally to say hello the duration tells its own story and speaks its own message. I have another friend called Gregory who I met at the age of about...

I came out of my room to go down and have breakfast and a woman approached me and said, 'you must be the author of one of the Alice in Wonderland follow up books. I gave it to my nephew and he did not put it down having read the whole thing at one sitting'. I did not tell her that I hadn't got a clue what she was talking about but acknowledged gracefully and said that it was a pleasure. I had a...

[tta_listen_btn] Today I feel like having a rest, probably because for the next five days I will be very busy in ways that you will find out in due course. When I was young or should I say particularly when I was young, Sunday was a day of rest. However, as the son of a vicar, Sunday was far from restful. My dad officiated over eight o'clock communion and sometimes even seven o'clock communion,...

[tta_listen_btn] Today, talk on the news of an Indian summer, and indeed the weather looks very promising. I was drinking my coffee at about 8:30 this morning when the mobile phone rang with an unusual prefix, +64 Someone was calling on WhatsApp and I forgot that this service is free of charge. Why anyone pays for using the phone I don't know. I know that in the United Kingdom they are  going to...

[tta_listen_btn] Last evening - We are using our wonderful heavy duty juicer to take all the grapes that were produced in our garden and obtain the most wonderful grape juice. I had a drink of it last night but alas a  little bit late and I forgot there's an awful lot of sugar in it albeit natural so I had to pay for that, but overall it was refreshing and in future I will have such a drink...

[tta_listen_btn] I went to bed last evening really tired. My eye was sticky so I thought I'd follow my own advice so 'in case of need just go to bed'. The danger symptoms we are told to look out for are flashing lights or floaters, if you feel sick or you vomit, if your vision becomes worse in operated eye, if your eye becomes more red, if you develop a continuous headache or pain none of these...