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46. My Blogger Archetype – Author and Community Gardener
Robert Birming, increasingly my gateway to a small, close-knit section of the IndieWeb took James’ Blogger Archetype Quiz and shared his results. I dived in of course, such is my fascination with Enneagrams, personality tests and the like. Here are my results You are a Author You love writing and have a growing backlog of… Continue reading
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42. In threes
Micah 6: 8 popped up on the app I have been using for listening to a daily verse, instantly grabbed my attention, and then reminded me about something I had read a while back on rhetorical devices (found after furious googling). Truth or underlying faith aside, I suppose there is a reason statements of faith… Continue reading
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38. Taxes and (Gen)AI
It’s that time of the year when HMRC commences sending nagging reminders to file one’s self assessment taxes, even though the deadline is in January of the next year. I usually leave it till late until I am spending half a day organising the paperwork then beating it into a summary for the (online) forms.… Continue reading
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36. Poetrying
Poetry has been a big part of my life for as long as I can remember, reading, pretending to write some, and seeking out poetry podcasts such as Poetry Unbound and Read Me A Poem] from time to time. It was therefore a particular delight to discover Read a Little Poetry as part of JUnited.… Continue reading
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35. Sports Day
Photo by Philip White on Unsplash — The plan was for a variety of outdoor activities. The reality was that plans met the unstoppable mountain that is the great British Summer, which meant the day was spent indoors in the end. There were tears, there were fumbles and laughs to boot. In the end, it… Continue reading
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33. How I Met Your Mother, The Alternate Ending
I stumbled on an (the?) alternate ending to How I Met Your Mother on Twitter the other day and it took me down memory lane! I was a big fan, back in the day, seeing far too much of myself in Ted Mosby (My Mosby Problem, Mosby-itis) Being so beholden to Ted, I never felt… Continue reading
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31. Life In A Song – Golden Motorcycle
I had a snippet of this song in the back of my mind, the “I got the gold motorcycle” part of the bridge being all my mind could grasp. Neither Spotify nor Gemini could help: the song it would appear is not on Spotify, whilst Gemini assumed I wanted it to generate a song for… Continue reading
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26. Numbered Days
For the fourth time in a month and a bit, I have been reminded of death, and dying – particularly dying young and what those who survive are left to deal with. The first of these was listening in to a thanksgiving service for S, someone I had only loosely known from church over the… Continue reading
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19. Language (Non) Skills
Very often at these family dos, I’m usually the only non speaker of the Nigerian language common to the South West which most of the family speaks. This, in addition to my Enneagram 5 tendencies, often means that I am on the periphery of conversations. Once in a while, someone might catch themselves, announcing loudly… Continue reading
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14. Aging, Again
Aging seems to be a theme on my mind, if two posts on consecutive days can be called a theme. On this occasion, an invitation to a friend’s 50th birthday bash in a city I used to live in is the trigger. Like all Nigerian parties there is a dress code, the start will inevitably… Continue reading
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