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I sometimes wonder, Earth, despite your vast age and remarkable girth and the fact that you’re all anyone’s known since birth, whether you’re really worth saving. This may be contentious and seldom ever stated, but I’m starting to think you’re a little overrated.   In case you’re oblivious and haven...

Delusions of Grandma ‘Are we going to the seaside?’ she wondered, as she chose which brooch to wear   and the care assistant gently brushed her sparse, unruly hair. ‘I used to ride the donkeys – this was long before the war, with my little brother Walter – he was killed at Singapore. Then later, me...

Today like every other day he sings in that annoying way- a nasal adolescent whine and songs you cannot quite define, or voices incoherent rap in a jaunty backwards baseball cap. Rap I know sod all about, his singing though is miles out – his limitations magnified by being loudly amplified. With coi...

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No matter what your worthy age, your standing on the global stage, no matter what your social class, your eminence, your gravitas, how many children you have sired, what worldly wisdom you’ve acquired, No matter how mature you are there’s something droll about a bra.     Not when a lady’s got it on ...