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My working career spans the Royal Navy, a spell as a dairyman in the Highlands of Scotland, many years in military survey in the British Army, and a fourth career in Information Technology. I have recently become a budding author. See more...-
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Monthly Archives: March 2019
My Adoring Gardener
Oh, when can you come? To prune these sagging branches. To take away these drooping petals. To remove this browning foliage. Yet to leave these living buds, From which my honeyed bouquet Still exudes, sweetly into the air. Will you hold, till I … Continue reading
Book Review: The Pocket Statistician by Shirley Coleman and Tony Greenfield
The Pocket Statistician: A Practical Guide To Quality Improvement by Shirley Coleman My rating: 5 of 5 stars If you are an engineer, or an operations manager in a manufacturing plant, or anyone else who does not have an academic … Continue reading
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Tagged analysis, book review, coleman, communication, data, engineer, greenfield, handbook, metrics, operations, practical, science, scientist, statistics
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Flutter Away
Originally posted on Write to Inspire:
A tribute to a little bird, who became weaker, and smaller, until eventually, she fluttered away to grace the universe with her beauty. I found you at the bottom of my garden. You were…
Book Review: The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton My rating: 5 of 5 stars This must be the saddest book that I have read for a very long time. The writing is superb. The prose is exquisite and the research adds great authenticity … Continue reading
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Tagged atmosphere, book review, brutality, burial rites, cruelty, cry, dutch, dutch republic, fear, gripping, hannah kent, jessie burton, miniaturist, must read, prose, sadness, tears
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Simple Yet Wise
Five Evocative Quotes Over the years, I have collected quotes which resonate with me. I use them, whenever they are relevant, in my presentations and in my writing. In this post, I bring five of my favourites to you. I … Continue reading
Posted in blogging
Tagged ABBA 2019, abraham lincoln, Bloggers Bash 2019, blogging, Finagle, five, henry ford, mark twain, quotes, WB Yeats
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Book Review: The Dangerous Book for Boys by Hal and Conn Iggulden
The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn Iggulden My rating: 5 of 5 stars I don’t think that I can say much more than that this book brought me some very happy childhood memories. It also told me about a … Continue reading
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Tagged adveture, book review, boyhood, childhood, Children, memories, reminiscence
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Scatter my Ashes
This is a poem that I wrote last year and recited during the Poetry Open Mic Evening at the Swanwick Writers’ Summer School 2018. It is about the scattering of my Mum’s ashes. I posted it on my blog, but … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Poetry
Tagged ashes, bonar bridge, highlands, mother, personal, poetry, Scotland
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Views from an Ordinary Life
View from the al fresco seating area at Coffee#1 in Andover Celandine Grove – Beside the path where I was walking the dogs
Book Review: A Christmas Gift by Sue Moorcroft
A Christmas Gift by Sue Moorcroft My rating: 4 of 5 stars It is fairly obvious, right from the start, that there will be a happy ending to this story. What kept me gripped was wondering how it could ever … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas Gift, conflict, drama, happy ending, holiday reading, love, music, philanthropy, romance, sex, sue moorcroft
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Roots to Cosmos
In the centre of the coppice on top of the hill, I sit, alone, on the damp grass. As the light of dawn had filled the sky, making the stars disappear, the rain had died to a soft, silken drizzle. … Continue reading
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