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Posts From June, 2020

Remembering Lady Di

Personal memories including the day she nearly ran me over.
At the beginning of the 1980's Britain was in a fairly dark place. An economic, social and cultural transition was happening. The country was in need of a fairy tale and it got one in the shape of the much publicised romance between Prince Charles and Diana Frances Spencer, who was born on 1 July 1961. Since this is the week of Diana's birth I thought I jot down a few memories and observations. We never met face to face but our paths did cross a couple of times. By the time I... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Sunday, June 28, 2020 9:52:00 AM Categories: Celebrity
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Dead dog story

The tale of how I came to bury my canine friend
I mentioned in a previous post that I preferred cats to dogs. I have had several dogs in the past, one of whom, Leon, got a mention, so I thought I'd tell you a little about him here. Leon came with the Spanish country house my wife and I bought in Murcia in 2003. The sellers were elderly people downsizing into a townhouse and it was thought with Leon being an outdoor dog in the country that it would be unfair and frankly a bit of a gamble to expect him to adapt to life in the confines of... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Sunday, June 21, 2020 10:33:00 AM Categories: Pets Spain
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Happy Birthday Donald Trump

..but why are you so unpopular?
When Sting released "If I lose my faith in you" in 1993" no one could have imagined this line from the song would be so prescient: You could say I'd lost my belief in our politicians They all seemed like game show hosts to me Yet here we are in 2020 and there is both a game show host in the Whitehouse and in 10 Downing Street. (In the case of The Whitehouse, Donald Trump was the presenter of the US television reality TV show The Apprentice, that adjudged the... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Sunday, June 14, 2020 11:49:00 AM Categories: Politics Racism Sexism
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