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Today we celebrate William Shakespeare’s birthday.
It is 444 years since he was born. Imagine the cake and ALL those candles! I’m sure the fire brigade would have to be on standby. It could have been a very dramatic moment. (Just a thought: the candles would have to be rather large, because by the time you’d […]

Oooops!
I forgot.
This blog should have celebrated its second birthday last week. That just indicates I was too busy last week to remember. This blog has now been going for two years and one week.
Wow. Nearly 600 articles, poems and stories later it is still going strong. You can check all my earlier articles, poems and […]

It is always exciting to see one’s writing in print.
Last week I was an invited guest at the launch of my latest publication. This took the form of a brochure aimed at tourists in our district, specifically the town of Mannum which is about a half hour drive from home here in Murray Bridge, South […]

Robert is one of my regular commenters here on this blog.
And I’m one of the frequent readers (and occasional commenters) on his blog called Middle Zone Musings.
Every month Robert runs a group writing project. I must apologize to him for never having contributed to one of his world-famous challenges. So this month I thought I’d […]

It’s my birthday today.
(Sound of wild cheering, laughter and happy singing.)
I was hoping to spend the day relaxing. I had planned to do a little reading, perhaps go for a walk in the cool of the morning, watch a good video or two and perhaps even watch a little of the cricket on television. In […]