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The Amazing Freya

Our only set of car keys, which we lost for 36 hours last week, was eventually found in an old shoebox, along with some ancient cutlery and a plastic golf ball. The shoebox was buried underneath a suitcase. The suitcase was down the back of our garden shed. We keep our garden shed locked. [...]

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Phew: I’ve just emerged from the harrowing world of Charles Arrowby. And the upshot? He did, I suppose, develop some sort of understanding of himself – if that is what goodness is, or where goodness starts – but it was only through a very violent process which left him without hope or ego. He had [...]

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The sea, the sea

I’m reading Iris Murdoch. Amazing. I have no idea why it’s taken me this long to get to her. I once heard the quote: ‘We read to know that we’re not alone,’ and I’m reminded of it when I read about Charles Arrowby of The Sea, The Sea. Nearing old age, he’s a famous theatre [...]

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I wonder

I just checked my stats. No one has looked at my blog. I kind of like it that way, actually.
My title, ‘The Wonder Years’, I love. It’s so apt for where I’m at, in terms of my parenting, my relationship and my own developing sense of self-awareness and discovery. It also reminds me of a [...]

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My First Blog

Welcome to my blog. I thought I’d start one a) to see what all the fuss is about (several years after the rest of the world, admittedly), and b) for fun.
I guess, and it is a guess, that the things I’ll be writing about are the things on my immediate radar, which are: my family [...]

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