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Verification
Is anyone else frustrated by being asked to verify themselves by mobile phone? As an elderly person who finds coping with a mobile phone difficult at the best of times,… Read more.
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The Demonstration
It was a surreal experience watching the demonstration outside the migrant hotel next door and simultaneously seeing a report on it on the TV. The police already had barricades up… Read more.
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Tea With The Vicar
The church group was having tea. Somebody passed the sugar bowl to Cathy. I could not resist saying, “You know, if you went without sugar in your tea, you would… Read more.
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Sugar
I shudder when I think of all the damage it has done. Read more.
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Speech Lessons
“We don’t go to shirts, Pat, we go to church!” So the other girls reproached me after we came out of class. They had taken their cue from the teachers,… Read more.
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TARDINESS
My teacher, Sister Hanny, confronted me as I arrived late for school one morning. “Why are you late?” she demanded. “I’m sorry, Sister,” I said, as meekly as I was… Read more.
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Composition
One day Sister Hanny reproached me. “In all that time, you only wrote two lines!” “I’m sorry, Sister,” I said as meekly as I was able. “I couldn’t think of… Read more.