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Six on Saturday – Pinch Punch

Happy 1st of March to you all. For the optimists, debatably deluded on this frosty morning, this means spring has officially begun. For the pragmatists, we are still officially in winter until the 20th of this month. Naturally, I am in the former category, ready to be disheartened when the snow starts and all myContinue reading “Six on Saturday – Pinch Punch”

Six on Saturday – Cliché

Whatever you may have heard, I am not a fair weather SoSer. I have legitimate reasons for being absent for the past few weeks. They are: holiday, distraction, apathy. I’m here today with a rather unoriginal post, full of late winter clichés and repetition. It is hard this time of year, tricky to get outContinue reading “Six on Saturday – Cliché”

Six on Saturday – Getting There

This is the last January 2025 Six on Saturday. This, to us in the Northern Hemisphere, is almost universally a good thing. Obviously, I can’t speak for everyone. There might be people out there who love drab, damp, windy and decidedly chilly weather. Each to their own. For the rest of us, far, far onContinue reading “Six on Saturday – Getting There”

Lost and Found

I have a, perhaps, peculiar notion that lost things have a will of their own. Left to their own devices they will re-emerge, “ta-da!”, when the time is right. If a cursory search is unsuccessful, it is quite clear the item in question doesn’t want to be found until it is good and ready. ThereContinue reading “Lost and Found”

Six on Saturday – Reluctant

It is not getting any easier, this Six on Saturday lark. I was rather reluctant to venture out to take photos; a cold, soggy and dark garden is not the most enticing destination. However, I told myself that if there was a time when I should make the effort it was now and, not quiteContinue reading “Six on Saturday – Reluctant”

The Random Book Giveaway – Letters of Note and Dawn

Have you ever read a book and thought “Doris would really enjoy this” only for these good wishes to go the way of many, dissolving into the ether of apathy. This is the springboard The Random Book Giveaway leapt from, where I attempt to pair a book with someone who I think will appreciate bothContinue reading “The Random Book Giveaway – Letters of Note and Dawn”

Six on Saturday – Chilly

A deep breath everyone, we’ve done it. Congratulations Gang, we have successfully managed to complete 2024 and have moved on to 2025, in spite and despite the festivities. Well I hope we all did. It would be fair to say that this current spell of chilly, and perhaps snowy, weather is my fault. Last weekContinue reading “Six on Saturday – Chilly”

Six on Saturday – Inbetweeny

Here we are in Inbetweeny Time, a time which is simultaneously “after” and “before”. It is a time of national confusion. No one is quite sure what day it is, who is working and who is not, with the added trauma of working out when the recycling should go out, as if we miss itContinue reading “Six on Saturday – Inbetweeny”

Christmas Love

I love Christmas; I love giving presents, I love picking out special things that show that I care, that I’ve been paying attention, that I understand. I love Christmas; I love cooking the lunch which is more like dinner and is ready when its ready and is always “your best one ever” even though IContinue reading “Christmas Love”

Six on Saturday – Desperate

I really wanted to come out to play today. Last Saturday was my first contribution for a while and I wanted to keep the momentum going. Inertia may have been vanquished but it is a formidable opponent. This weeks’ problem was the photographs. All day the rain fell. All day my camera was at myContinue reading “Six on Saturday – Desperate”