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John Haynes’ photo of the week: Tiger, Tiger. August 20, 2009

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Tiger copyCopyright John Haynes December 2004

John Haynes’ photograph of the week: Boot Street August 6, 2009

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Nothing will come of nothing August 4, 2009

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Since I finished the Proust bit I cannot imagine ever having anything to write about again. I suppose that’s what I love about the mystery of writing, I feel like I am a jackdaw on the look out for something that sparkles. A thief. I talked quite a bit, (it’s all bits and they both died far too young, but one took to his bed – almost from childhood – while the other kept on travelling; even when he was spitting up blood.

Overdiagnosis July 11, 2009

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‘Researchers in Finland what looks like bad news one week might measure as normal three weeks later. At least it keeps the labs busy.

Rethinking Friendship July 10, 2009

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I wrote earlier that sometimes it takes a lifetime to know which of those magic meetings in life with significant others remain with us as platinum rings of eternity. Now, I think I may have been placing too much emphasis on the idea of  endurance. For a start, I don’t have as many friends now as when I was younger. I’m  more reclusive, more disillusioned  and for whatever reason – their memories vividly mark a chapter of our lives. I still remember not only my own, but my children’s long lost best friends as if it was yesterday. It is not, after all, I think the length of time that matters but the depth of loving, or come to that, hating.

Back To Dionysius July 5, 2009

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We’re back from Hamlet and an abused chimp, whose lives, it seems, he wished to indulge, in order to try in vain to heal the wounds of his own deprivations.

Flu The Trickster July 5, 2009

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I cannot continue with my Dionysius debate until Dan’s with me and now it seems an irony that these viruses incubate a revenge in the dark heart of animal abuse.

Who Is The Dionysius Of Pop? July 2, 2009

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No time to blog today, not until the weekend. And, it feels even  hotter at 6 am  than when I went to bed last night.

When I do, I might report on my grandDaniel 036 copy

WATCH AND WAIT July 1, 2009

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Sometimes, when you are forced into the dentist’s chair – with a heightened dread because you either fear another root canal filling, or even worse that an expensively maintained canal is in more trouble – if you are lucky the dentist, well mine does, will use the term ‘Watch and allowed myself to enjoy the thoughts of strangers departing for an unknown holiday destination with all the excitement of a 6 AM departure.

THRESHOLD MOMENTS OF ENGAGEMENT June 28, 2009

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I commented earlier on the frightful pangs – when one is writing – of beginnings, of empty pages and seductive Duessa in Spencer’s Fairie Queen. Hope of communion is ignited but sometimes its energy is gossamer fine. It may be days, months or probably years, even a lifetime, before we find out if the engagement of a new beginning has become the platinum of eternity.