Way to go

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Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven’t got around to visiting.

It is with thanks to Eric’s blog here on WP ( http://www.ericfoltin.com ) that I was reminded I have yet to visit a place in North London that has captured my imagination more than once.

In one of his recent posts, he mentioned something called atlasobcura.com. A fabulous website that suggests places around the world you may be interested in visiting. There are 562 ideas for London alone.

Highgate Cemetery/ Nature reserve. 37 acres of Victorian Gothic architecture and atmosphere with 170.000 interments -graves/urns.

The list of inmates is a long one, and so very impressive, were their accomplishments: Artists, scientists, writers, historians, surgeons, industrialists, furniture makers and engravers, and so many more.

Most of the names I didn’t recognise, but well done them for achieving what they did.

George Michael, Bob Hoskins, and  Douglas Adams are there along with Charles Dickens and his family, as is William, Gabriel, and Christina Rossetti 💜

🎼 Girls just wanna have fun 🎶

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List five things you do for fun.

‘ The simplest pleasures are sometimes the most extraordinary’

Edgar Allan Poe ( 1809~1849) American writer, poet, editor, literary critic.

These days, you would barely notice me having fun.

Writing my blog, walking my dog, being in nature, feeding the birds, decluttering/pottering, exercising grey matter…opening a bottle of wine.

Plenty of fun still to be had in my little world.

Talk to me

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If you could make your pet understand one thing, what would it be?

Thanks, WP. I’ve especially enjoyed reading through the DP’s my fellow bloggers have posted today.

If you have gathered anything about me at all, it’s animals and my passion for them, especially dogs. I can’t help myself, something I was clearly born with.

Patch. My companion of the last 5 years. Who is at least 12 and came to share my life after being in 3 previous homes ( or should that read ‘houses’? ) has clearly had a difficult time of it.

What I’d like him to know is I wish he could talk to me about those days instead of keeping it all inside

Being Joe

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Write about your first name: its meaning, significance, etymology, etc.

You may recognise this scrappy little pup. I’ve posted about him before.

This is the first photo I took of him over 20 years ago.

I’d been overseas for many years, and for a multitude of reasons ( all stories in themselves), I decided it was time to head back to the UK. ( Was that wise? Yes, another story there)

For the last 6 months of my stay, I rented a house in Palavakkam, just off the East Coast Road, heading south out of Chennai city.

( I owe a great deal to a taxi driver, Michael, who found and secured the place for me. It was perfect. I’d like to thank him more, but have so far run aground trying to trace him….but I digress)

The van from The Blue Cross of India would drop me at the end of my road each evening. Giving me some time to decompress before I reached home.

One night, this little pup was in the street, hanging out with the big dogs amongst the traffic.  I scooped him up and brought him back with me…..There’s much I could write about here… but this post is how he got his name.

A lovely old friend and workmate of mine said she would have him when I returned to the UK….She was called Mary. So I called him Joseph. Joe.

On the afternoon I took him over to her house he had a great time hanging out with her kids, and then he raced up to me, sat himself at my feet and said,’ can we go home now?’ …We did, and he came with me and my big older boy Tony to England.

We shared a life for 14 years ❤️

Ducks in a row?

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What’s your dream job?

A dream job would be the one getting up in the morning and ready for work would be exciting..or at least easy, no slog.

Maybe it would showcase abilities, gifts, and passions. Childhood ambitions fullfilled.

Fullfilling, yes, that’s a good word, isn’t it, to describe a job that suits you perfectly? And there we go, another expression ‘ suits you’..The working environment and access to, the life work balance and rewards suit you.

Yep, a few ducks to get in a row there, but I’m guessing it begins with a passion?

If a publisher, editor scout, whomever believed my style of writing was worthy of payment, that would do it for me.

43% of global arms trade is from US

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If you could un-invent something, what would it be?

Some of you lovely bloggers today have said that univenting algorithms would be a good idea. I concede, they certainly mess with people’s heads.

( It did cross my mind.’ I wonder if the covid kids are aware of how much they are being manipulated? There is a lot of pressure on that generation, coming from all sides – another topic for a post, I guess)

My initial thought when I read our DP was to say guns. What an idiot I am, as if taking away firearms would stop people harming each other?

Humans have harmed each other, physically mentally and emotionally from day one, I imagine.

Chinese Taoist Alchemists accidentally discovered gunpowder whilst seeking an elixir for immortality in the 9th century. By the 10th century, they were stuffing bamboo tubes with it and voila! Shooting each other.

In the late 13 century, metal barred firearms came into being, and by the 14th, true gun development was happening.

And here we are

Fur love

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Can you share a positive example of where you’ve felt loved?

Every animal I have walked with along this path called life, I have loved wholeheartedly.

And yet they have given me more

Sorted

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Where can you reduce clutter in your life?

My email. I love sorting, decluttering, call it what you will,but with a stylists head on. Not an officey kinda thing. So the inbox will need to wait.

Years ago, when I was about to leave a nanny’s job in Saudi. I was given a task, made for me, really.

Sheikh A and his family were moving into a seaside lux apartment, facing a mosque.

I had been there two years’ call to prayer was nothing new, but I didn’t think I could hack the early doors version. Luckily, I was headhunted for a new position in a neighbouring country.

On one particular day, I was given a lovely space in the apartment, which was to be the kids’ play room. All their kit, their toys, books, etc. had literally been collected up and dumped into the containers.

‘ Bring it on’.

I spent several hours doing my thing. Unpacking and arranging. No one had dropped by, so when they did I was soo pleased to read their faces. They were taken aback. I’d excelled myself. The space looked amazing.

I left the next day. Job done.

For the love of dogs

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What is your favorite animal?

In two weeks’ time, it will be a full year since I began this blog. Turning up 356 days straight for the Daily Prompt.

WP, I am pretty sure this is the 3rd time you have asked us our favourite animal

random pic of cute pup

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Sooo, just to clarify, it’s dogs, dogs, and dogs all the way for me. My old boy Patch? I’d be totally lost without him. My companion in life, my rock.

I am passionate about all animals generally, but something about the brown bear..