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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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Back 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 / [...]

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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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The earliest memory I've been able to drag from the rusting vault is one of me sitting on a bare concrete floor, lit by angled sunlight, while my father painted 'Cannon' on the lid of a small, green, moulded-cardboard suitcase. In my twenties (perhaps thirties — I don't remember ;-D), I related the scene to [...]

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While I was out walking this morning, a song from my 2014 CD Invisible popped up on my playlist. With rekindled memories I listened to a few other tracks and decided that the quality of my home studio recording and mixing back in 2012/13/14 was pretty good, after all. Anyway I digress; as I listened [...]