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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (15342) • Ireland 6h

The thing about this town that bugs me most and could persuade me to return to live in the big city is this: there are no cafes where one can sit quietly and read while enjoying good coffee. For one thing, no cafe here makes...

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Fiacre Banks @ambiepam Aren’t I just!

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Amber @AmbiePam (127090) • United States 6h

My keychains are always ones I get free, but I try to make sure they are big enough to catch my eye. I’ve been known to lose my keys, so my dad has a backup pair. His keychains are really small to nonexistent. The one pictured...

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Fiacre Banks @ambiepam my most recent key chain recently broke and I am displeasured. It bore the name of my local metro stop when I lived in Paris. My wife it for me last Christmas.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (15342) • Ireland 6h

The thing about this town that bugs me most and could persuade me to return to live in the big city is this: there are no cafes where one can sit quietly and read while enjoying good coffee. For one thing, no cafe here makes...

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (15342) • Ireland 11h

It’s Monday night, time to sit in the garden behind the house as Summer tilts into Autumn with a big goblet of deeply red wine, and let an equally deep tide of melancholy wash all over me. I'm not morbid and I'm not unhappy,...

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Fiacre Banks @JudyEv Oh I did. One that came back with me from Italy.

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (13827) • United Kingdom 8h

My Mom phoned me earlier to say that the medical centre had just phoned her and changed the date of her flu jab on the 15th October to the 14th October. She told them I was booked in 5 minutes later than her ( the next appointment...

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Fiacre Banks @traceyjayne What a nice day’s outing to look forward to!

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (13827) • United Kingdom 10h

I am not an early riser by nature, and certainly not now I am happily retired and at the moment I am at my caravan .... However, I was awake early this morning and decided to get up. I did some washing and got that outside on the...

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Fiacre Banks @Traceyjayne Avios is basically the old Airmiles, the things that paid for my recent flights to Pisa, Athens, Normandy etc.

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (13827) • United Kingdom 10h

I am not an early riser by nature, and certainly not now I am happily retired and at the moment I am at my caravan .... However, I was awake early this morning and decided to get up. I did some washing and got that outside on the...

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Fiacre Banks @traceyjayne Up early for coffee then a brisk walk along the shore. Asda and Lidl. Peeled the potatoes for a chicken, broccoli and potato bake for tonight. Cleaned the washing machine with special stuff. Made chicken sandwiches for me and junior miss (missus...

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (15342) • Ireland 10h

Why oh why does the press constantly give oxygen to that vainglorious segment of society we call celebrity? Again the Emmys take pride of place in newspapers and TV news and are accorded the same status and gravity as Putin’s...

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (15342) • Ireland 11h

It’s Monday night, time to sit in the garden behind the house as Summer tilts into Autumn with a big goblet of deeply red wine, and let an equally deep tide of melancholy wash all over me. I'm not morbid and I'm not unhappy,...

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (15342) • Ireland 16h

My mind was abruptly called back to the recent past this morning when I read @sissy15 ‘s post about wondering about in graveyards - those who know me will recall that I used to live beside a graveyard. I shared with Sissy how...

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Sissy15 @sissy15 (13440) • United States 20h

One of my favorite things to do that is somewhat odd and makes people question my sanity and what I do for fun, is to go to cemeteries and look at headstones. I like to sometimes randomly look up names especially older ones and...

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Fiacre Banks @sissy15 I used to live beside a graveyard on the edge of the city. A very quiet place surrounded by forest, fields and a river. Late at night, by the light of the moon, a young couple would sometimes sneak in through our garden and frolic naked among the...

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (13827) • United Kingdom 14 Sep

So tonight's tea was just all the things that I brought home with me from my meals the last two days .... Fagg*t, chunky chips, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, Yorkshire pudding. It all went into the air fryer and took just 7...

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Fiacre Banks @traceyjayne Standards slipped on this house tonight and I heated a lasagne from Sainsbury’s. It tasted so processed and now it’s repeating on me. Why do I never learn?

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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (53) • United States 14 Sep

It’s a really long story but I ended up at two doctors today. I’ll talk more about them later. But Dr. Hubby found the best medicine for me. Oreos!!! And I found out that hubby wasn’t mad at me and we weren’t fighting . He had...

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville Oh well, so long as it was just that he was in pain that’s fine! I’d be the same as him - I’d suffer without saying what’s going on and leave my wife wondering what she’s done wrong.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (15342) • Ireland 14 Sep

On a winter morning in around 1977, (a sweet orange morning) the train I was travelling in was somewhere near Vienna, gliding along like the gleaming streak of red metal it was, stretched out between two banks of snow, shiny in...

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville I do like my flickers of wistful, melancholic maybes.

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Thelma @thelme55 (79747) • Germany 14 Sep

I have. I went to Milan, Italy with my 2 Filipina friends. It was only a 4 days visit and we had a blast exploring the city. Although our hotel with buffet breakfast was far from the city of Milan, we still enjoyed travelling with...

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Fiacre Banks @thelme55 Italy’s always a good choice. I was in Pisa for a week at the start of September (roasting hot) and travelled by train to Lucca, Firenze and Viareggio. Good times. Good food.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (15342) • Ireland 14 Sep

On a winter morning in around 1977, (a sweet orange morning) the train I was travelling in was somewhere near Vienna, gliding along like the gleaming streak of red metal it was, stretched out between two banks of snow, shiny in...

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Fiacre Banks @JudyEv Story of my life. But isn’t it so interesting how different life would have been if we’d gone to a different school, took a different job etc.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (15342) • Ireland 14 Sep

On a winter morning in around 1977, (a sweet orange morning) the train I was travelling in was somewhere near Vienna, gliding along like the gleaming streak of red metal it was, stretched out between two banks of snow, shiny in...

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Fiacre Banks @wrexxo Not really, she just popped into my mind this morning. She obviously made quite an impression!

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Amber @AmbiePam (127090) • United States 14 Sep

So what was the highlight of your weekend? I don’t know that I had one highlight. My allergies are causing me to feel itchy so I’m trying to guzzle water. The pharmacy is back ordered on the OTC allergy medicine I take. There...

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Fiacre Banks @ambiepam I don’t think I had a highlight.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (15342) • Ireland 14 Sep

On a winter morning in around 1977, (a sweet orange morning) the train I was travelling in was somewhere near Vienna, gliding along like the gleaming streak of red metal it was, stretched out between two banks of snow, shiny in...

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (15342) • Ireland 13 Sep

We’ve decided that we need a complete new bathroom. Our current arrangements are functional okay, but the shower is leaking, tiles are wonky and the entire business was installed on the cheap before we bought the house and it...

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Fiacre Banks @JudyEv I can see problems with mounting such a docility, especially if one was overtaken by a sense of urgency. And old age does preclude lavatorial gymnastics. And anyway - just no. Nightmare to clean.

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