Okay, so a dog might only be a dog for some. Yet for others, a canine companion is an integral physical and emotional member of the family unit. That said, our beloved Poppy the border collie x left us in October 2024. We fully understood that 'any day now' was coming. After all, Poppy wasn't [...]
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Asleep
onBack in 2020, like billions around the world I had plenty of time to pass with my 'business' hands tied firmly behind my back. And yet I felt fortunate that we didn't live in suburbia, or urbia. Not sure if anybody refers to it that way, do they? I mean, suburban / urban, suburbia / [...]
Another six string?
onSo, I was idly scrolling my FB feed when yet another ad popped up to drive me to distraction. Because guitars are my fatal attraction, this one caught my attention. Not that it was any old guitar, oh no, not this 'un. This specimen was little more than a fretboard attached to a thin-line body [...]
Drum roll, please …
onIt's been a while since publishing my first novel, The Tramp, and music CD, The Tramp: The Music of Robert Aitken, in 2017, yet I've not dawdled that much, really ... I'm finishing up a full length, 460-odd page psychological thriller waiting for a final read through, plus another tale set in the 10th century [...]
A long distance wedding performance.
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… or Pandemic Schmandemic#2 This post follows Pandemic Schmandemic#1 (check the link if you want to know what happened before). Once upon a time several decades ago, my sister told me of an early childhood memory of me playing the theme tune to a children’s television show on my brother’s guitar (Pat had set it [...]
Tiger Dreaming 