2022 can bite my shiny metal ass

When I list out all the stuff that's happened to me in the last 6 months, it seems slightly unreal.One of my colleagues called it "the crumblies" - you get to fifty and everything just starts to crumble.Some of it I've written about previously.A...

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Whisky tasting: my old favourite

Once again our little club has gathered to taste malt.Marty was our host. He loves Japanese whisky and was originally keen to set that as our theme.But we soon realised that there are only a few Japanese whiskies available for our budget of...

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Surprisingly Super

Poppy Lu Book 2!Poppy Lu the flying girl has one year left in school. It's the most important year of her life and her parents expect her to study non-stop.But her best friend is launching stallites into space and needs a hand.And she stumbles...

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Suddenly Super

Poppy Lu's learning to fly her grandpa's plane when she discovers that she doesn't need a plane to fly.Embracing her pilot power, Poppy becomes an intern at a corporate super hero team. But it's not all costumes and combat.And when they accuse...

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I've had a hell of a month

It started with a speck in my vision, which turned out to be a stroke. But not caused by your garden-variety clot! No, I have cat-shit in my eye.Well, that's what everybody thinks when I say "toxoplasmosis". Which is the likely culprit.As it...

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I spy with my crimson eye

You know when people sarcastically say "I'd rather get a needle in my eye"? Well that's how I started my holidays. Now look at me...Last time I wrote, I was getting hyperbaric treatments after a clot caused a stroke in my retina.But when I...

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Wedding Themed Whisky

The theme for our latest whisky club tasting was “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue”.We gathered at Michael’s house under the usual rules: each taster brings a 700ml bottle he bought for under $100, they are wrapped...

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My Blind Spot

It started on a Friday morning, when I had a lingering afterimage in my left eye. Like I'd looked at a camera flash the night before and it hung around to annoy me the next day.So I took myself to an Optometrist to get checked out. He did this...

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And now we wait...

 I have just sent copies of my new sci-fi novel to a dozen publishers.Fly, my pretties! Fly!I don't want to give away the title, because I think it's pretty clever and I don't want anyone else to steal it before I can use it myself.But...

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American Whisky Tasting

 We've decided to call our little whisky club the Organoleptic Whisky Challenge, mainly because Michael's a chef and he knew the exact fancy word we needed for tasting stuff without reading the label.organoleptic: (adjective) acting on,...

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Whisky Tasting at Mine

I've started a little whisky tasting club with some friends.It works like this: Each person buys a 700ml bottle for under $100.It is presented to the group in a brown paper bag with all identifying marks on the neck covered or removed.We...

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