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Image by  Hatice EROL  from  Pixabay I wrote recently about the awkwardness of shaking hands with myself — when introduced to my alter ego ....

I was in the bath, towelling my hair prior to getting out, when a thing dropped from the towel into the water. I leapt out — Aaaagh! — and f...

  This hasn’t been a conventional week — none of this 7 days 7 nights nonsense, just a maelstrom of activity catapulting us from one high-oc...

A week or so ago, I took a week-long trip to see family. It was a multi-stage trip collecting one family member en route, and another one on...

Image: SusanAlisonArt Question from 5-year-old granddaughter: “Do you know the slimiest creature on earth?” Thinks: Sleazebag Guy where I wo...

  The week began with a spin on the bike, and was to end — not that I knew it at the time — with something more centrifugally challenging. A...

  I arrive home. A dapper, rotund chap, in a brown suit, is rummaging inside our porch. Seeing me, he gives a start of surprise and dives be...