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Eye Contact
I’ve suspected for a long time that I have Aspergers Syndrome (although sometimes I think I’m not Aspie at all, but just normally weird). My life-long difficulty making eye contact with people is one of the reasons for my suspicion; it’s a well-known AS trait (along with a tendency to mistake the standard “How are [...]
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Something….
Been meaning to write something here for days, but somehow the urge stops when I actually sit down to do it.
Anyway, my health is both better and worse. I’ve been off the Ibuprofen for three weeks now and I’m feeling quite a lot better. I actually walked back from the village shop this [...]
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A Week is a Long Time…..
….plenty long enough, I would have thought, for some real evidece to emerge in the foiled “Al Qaeda plot” to to blow up planes.
Sure, two guns and a suspicious suitcse have been found in High Wycombe woods. But if they had any connection with the “terrorists” who have been banged up, an announcement to [...]
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Cell
Cell by Stephen King
The blurb on the back claims that King is the greatest storyteller ever. Oh no he’s not. Not on the evidence of this, anyway. I can instantly come up with the names of at least three other authors whose plotting and characterisation are consistently superior to this. (OK, the [...]
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Mugs…..
Washing all of our mugs this afternoon, I wondered how on earth we ended up with 22 of them. I mean, with only two of us in this house, we really don’t need anything like this many.
Then I remembered the time I was helping to clear my mother’s flat after she died. I [...]
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Nightime…..