Maintaining my Mojo.
When I was a little boy, all slumped socks and grazed knees, we lived in Bugle in a house on the junction of New Street and Crescent...
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Neil
- Jun 16, 2021
- 4 min
Coffee Machine. Little or Large?
I could spend the rest of my life living vicariously cruising social media, waiting for something to happen or I could organise myself...
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Neil
- Jun 11, 2021
- 4 min
"Alright?" "Yeah, You?" "Yeah"
“Alright?” “Yeah, you?” “Yeah" “Ere me ol beauty you’re a bit late with yer blog update" “I’ve been a bit off colour, I suppose I’m still...
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Neil
- Jun 6, 2021
- 4 min
Proper Planning Promotes Proper Parties
I’m starting this blog from my bed on a Saturday night. It’s wasn’t my plan. The plan was to be in the motorhome at Penvose Farm Campsite...
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Neil
- Jun 3, 2021
- 3 min
Lead role in a horror film
200 posts ago I had a small part in a horror film. I’ve now been promoted to lead character. It’s chilling. Every day I feel unwell and...
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Neil
- May 31, 2021
- 3 min
Euphemisms, Coffee Shop or Café. B.T.W. 200th Blog Update
Blog Updates. You may have read them all. If so you're reading the 200th blog update. So much junk in such little space! What's a...
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Neil
- May 26, 2021
- 3 min
Reason Gap and Mood Management
Don’t make any decisions when your mood just isn’t right. Don’t buy anything without giving it sensible thought. I recently heard if it’s...
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Neil
- May 22, 2021
- 3 min
Big Questions Behind the Bike Sheds
Apparently hip replacements and bowel surgery are the two procedures that are likely to cause significant blood loss. In order to...
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Neil
- May 20, 2021
- 3 min
My Priorities and Bounce Back.
I’m a maker/fixer/mender of things (inanimate objects) but when our microwave oven door started to malfunction I had no intention of...
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Neil
- May 16, 2021
- 3 min
Milestones, Stools and Dinosaurs
How do you process difficult news? This journey that I’m on has milestones of difficult news. I knew in the autumn of 2018 that my life...
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Neil
- May 14, 2021
- 5 min
Walk/Don't Walk
There’s two things on my agenda to write about. Flying over Cornwall and the outcome of my scan combined with the subsequent conversation...
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Neil
- May 10, 2021
- 3 min
Tea or Coffee and Cake. It's Entirely up to You!
In a different life I lived at Carthew. It was here that I took on a biggish project. I was probably slightly out of my depth but I...
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Neil
- May 7, 2021
- 2 min
Time for Contemplation
Contemplation; something I do, maybe a bit too frequently. This morning (Friday) I’ve woken up contemplating my feet after walking 3.18...
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Neil
- May 5, 2021
- 2 min
From Hustyn Hill to Geraniums
There’s a hill. I’ve known it all my life as Hustyn Hill but it’s also known as Hustyn’s Hill or Bishops Wood Hill. It’s situated near...
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Neil
- May 3, 2021
- 4 min
Chocolate Hobnobs and Their Part in My Downfall.
Friday, the beginning of Bank holiday weekend. It was all going on. The alarm went off at 6am, the final items were stashed in the...
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Neil
- Apr 29, 2021
- 3 min
Internal Desolation
Internal desolation, it’s what makes me dream. My sleep pattern is fairly predictable. I go to bed somewhere between 8.30pm and 10.00pm....
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Neil
- Apr 27, 2021
- 2 min
Talking Walking and Culling Contacts
My poor feet. They’re giving me gyp today. Just saying . I’ve been thinking about anti-vaxxers and Facebook culling. Right wing armchair...
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Neil
- Apr 24, 2021
- 3 min
Blue Badge and a Motorbike.
So this is what happened. A few weeks ago my feet were killing me. Just a few steps and I needed to stop. This has become a regular...
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Neil
- Apr 23, 2021
- 4 min
Chapel Announcements. Is it Custard or Curry?
Yesterday was a good day in a weepy sort of way. The day my chemo pump comes off is always a good day. I’m surprised how easily I have...
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Neil
- Apr 20, 2021
- 3 min
How the Land Registry and Cornwall Council could be killing me.
You may, you may not be aware my brothers and I are selling our family home. Before you think “house in Cornwall, isn’t the value...
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