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REVENGE

They say revenge is a dish best eaten cold. I don't mind if it is hot or cold, but I want it. The person bringing my car from Scotland with me pay...
2,640950Sep 2017Sep 20173 hrs ago

making the first move

So I know this shy guy, 40 or so, a fellow writer, who has been fantasizing about meeting a woman who will pick him up and make him happy. Now a w...
762320Oct 2017Oct 2017Apr 26

Biff moving out of the van

*****breaking news ******** *****read all about it! ****** My offer has been accepted, the deposit has been...
1,472450Oct 2017Oct 2017Apr 26

Halloween in Spain?

Quick question. Halloween stuff appearing in shops. In sa treat-or-treat very much to friends houses only. In Scotland guising was well escorted but e...
1,400440Oct 2017Nov 2017Apr 25

I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack

and I missed you sooo much! Two months today since I packed my computer and although I got it back a week ago it took until today to get connected to...
1,436460Oct 2017Oct 201714 hrs ago

Old walls

These walls are built of stone, packed with clay, plastered, painted - and with time, the cracks show. Paint flakes off, plaster crumbles, cracks beco...
1,127250Oct 2017Oct 2017Apr 25

Another penny in the jar (a research question)

The theory - if you put a penny in a jar every time you make love in the first year of your marriage, and after the first year you take a penny out ev...
1,571590Aug 2018Aug 2018Apr 27

Got my dozen

and in the order that I got them - good morning goie more sawubona tumela bonjour guten morgen g'day bore da madainn mhath buenos dias...
1,435560Aug 2018Aug 2018Apr 26

Theory: Women should be clear, men should not

Scenario - They are watching TV at his house. Woman rubs her shoulders, mmm, I’m cold. Man nods, yup, it is quite cold, and carries on watching TV. Ev...
1,444600Aug 2018Aug 2018Apr 27

Waiting

I've got approx an hour to wait and nothing to read. An hour is too short for some things and too long for others. Ways of filling time? (Othe...
661290Aug 2018Aug 2018Apr 22

Sometimes a person, a name, personifies a whole time of your life

Sometimes, you don’t even realize until you hear their name years and years later and it is a TARDIS moment, you suddenly see people you’d forgotten,...
60180Aug 2018Aug 2018Apr 20

Spoilers don't actually spoil anything - look into the future -

I still believe I would have enjoyed Terminator 2 more if I hadn’t - hang on - SPOILER ALERT look away now if you are one of the...
653330Aug 2018Aug 2018Apr 27

It's official. Australians are the best men to meet.

This is a dinkum Australian love poem, and if it don't bring a lump to your throat, and have you rushing to the Strine men listed here on CS, you're o...
1,298490Aug 2018Sep 2018Apr 25

The quartermaster's store

The bloggers included all commented on my last blog which seemed as good a way as any of selecting victims Add a verse, make it worse :la...
1,545500Aug 2018Aug 2018Apr 25

Looking for help with Outlook.com

My Outlook mailbox recently gave itself an upgrade and seems to have lost my email address in the process. Now when I try to sign in it comes up with...
818-0Aug 2018Aug 201816 hrs ago

What - in words of one syllable - the heck is cryptocurrency?

I've spent most of my working life in finance and yet I can't get my head around bitcoin / digital currencies / cryptocurrency. It's, like, electronic...
1,439430Aug 2018Aug 2018Apr 26

Jeremiah

Listen, if you get a friend request from a guy called Jeremiah, it's okay to accept. He's a bullfrog, and a good friend of mine....
1,426250Aug 2018Aug 2018Apr 25

Interacting

Turns out that communicating with others literally affects our health more than diet, exercise, even our addictions. Seeing my interaction in Spa...
1,512360Sep 2018Sep 2018Apr 20

"They say such nice things about people at funerals

that it makes me sad I'm going to miss mine by just a few days" (Garrison Keillor) Ok, a lot will depend how or when you kick the bucket. Be drunk...
1,938700Sep 2018Sep 2018Apr 26

Giraffe in snow

REALLY starting to worry about Eks now. Hoping all SA bloggers affected by blizzards are keeping well-wrapped up and warm This pic one of s...
72020Sep 2018Sep 2018Apr 26

Meanwhile here in Spain

Yesterday I was in Orgiva, a small town in the Alpujarras and did have my camera. I'm not a good photographer, though. Pics - Orgiva is hot enough...
1,716630Sep 2018Sep 2018Apr 25

Comparing the mangle to a glove filled with porridge

Handshakes fascinate me. I think mine is ok, but then I would. Some offer just the fingers, or the vrot (rotting) banana. Some seize a hand as if ring...
1,427670Sep 2018Oct 2018Apr 25

hyperbole

No-one gets disappointed any more - they are devastated No-one has unpleasant experiences any more - they are traumatized Everything that happens i...
1,232510Oct 2018Oct 2018Apr 28

Opera blog

RIP Montserrat Caballé, one of the great singers from my new country. She was 85 Don't imagine many opera buffs in CS but some may remember the op...
1,551490Oct 2018Oct 2018Apr 29

Odd couple

I met these people, and for all I know they met on CS although that would be a fantastic coincidence and, if they read this blog, a little embarrassin...
3,4311170Oct 2018Oct 2018Apr 28

Raining again

Welcome to Sunny Spain they said 320 days of sunshine a year they said Meanwhile I had to put the light on in the kitchen to see to make coffee :m...
1,325510Oct 2018Oct 2018Apr 26

Really REALLY honest profile comments

You want honest profiles? I found some spotted on websites, pruned out the crudest, sharing twenty of those that made me blink. These were all from p...
702170Oct 2018Feb 2019Apr 18

Don't panic, but it's Scorpio season

Tuesday 23rd October ushered in Scorpio season - the sign of death and rebirth, intensity and passionate convictions, and a time when all signs, not...
1,669730Oct 2018Oct 201814 hrs ago

Change your name change your life

And no I don't mean on CS although some of us did and there was a real difference How much does your name influence your life? When someon...
3,2531520Nov 2018Nov 2018Apr 28

So tired of being afraid

I don’t hide under the bed quaking, but at any one time there can be at least one thread of fear running through my head. Some come from the media and...
1,637440Nov 2018Nov 2018Apr 27

Happy thanksgiving to all our CS Americans

I so like the idea of a dinner just for giving thanks - been invited to a few in Scotland by an American family living a long long way from home and i...
734190Nov 2018Nov 2018Apr 23

Mind AWOL

We all, I think, I hope, have that moment of walking into a room, then wondering what we went there for. Or stopping halfway up the stairs and thinkin...
774300Jan 2019Jan 2019Apr 27

All the things NOT in your profile

You are not your age, nor the size of clothes you wear, You are not a weight, or the color of your hair. You are not your name, or the dimples in yo...
1,816810Jan 2019Feb 2019Apr 28

Anyone having good weather?

My daughter is walking her dog in 6 inches of snow. My friend there in Natal is resisting being washed out of her house by torrential rain. I know the...
1,859990Feb 2019Feb 2019Apr 28

The uhoh moment when you realize you're on different wavelengths

It may only be me but there's always that urge to leap for the door when someone I've known for ages, or just met, suddenly comes out with one of the...
1,113400Jan 2019Jan 2019Apr 26

Happy 2019? How unpatriotic!

If we were happy with what we had, why would we want change? Why would we need more? I saw an article ticking readers off for wishing people a happy n...
694230Dec 2018Jan 2019Apr 23

Hi, Big Brother, didja see what I just did ...

My bank in Spain will shortly have the technology to produce the details of a payment – not just that I bought at a supermarket, but the copy of the s...
1,076310Jan 2019Jan 2019Apr 20

Theybies

Slugs and snails and puppy dog tails - Sugar and spice and all things nice - On one hand, I've never believed girls...
811240Dec 2018Dec 2018Apr 26

Shortest day ...

Struggling to squeeze in breakfast, elevenses, lunch, afternoon tea, supper and a small cup of hot cocoa before bed. #ShortestDay...
732190Dec 2018Dec 2018Apr 24

How many of your gifts / decorations were made in China?

On Dec 23rd one of my Chinese pupils did his internet class on the move in a Beijing supermarket with Jingle Bells playing audibly in the background (...
661280Dec 2018Dec 2018Apr 20

How to write good

1. Avoid alliteration. Always. 2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with 3. Avoid clichés like the plague. They’re old hat. 4. Comparison...
553230Dec 2018Dec 2018Apr 22

I can't sleep .

starting to panic a little bit about it. Which of course makes it worse. Any suggestions other than pills, I really don't like taking pills? M...
2,672970Jun 2017Jun 201712 hrs ago

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