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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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So, 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 [...]

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It'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 [...]

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A week and a bit ago, I received an invitation to join the Tarkine Strings at an Australia Day Foreshore Fiesta celebration in Somerset (Tasmania's Somerset, that is). Short notice, true, and a set of songs I'd mostly never heard before but, hey, it sounded like fun and the people are well respected around these [...]

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After many years thinking about it I've finally gotten myself into the routine of regular live appearances (well, at least more than once a year). The Spirit Bar Tasmania offered me a spot some weeks ago and I've been invited back a couple of times, I'd assumed to apologise but it seems there are some [...]