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The Chronicles of a Steel City Man

  • Inspiration or just plain boredom ?

     Here I am, 0330hrs and wide awake…  I was in bed for about 2100hrs. I had watched two episodes of the Game of Thrones (season 4…I am a late starter !!)..nothing much on TV so I accompanied my better half to the boudoir for some sleep…no sleep available…so I read  for about an hour, felt…

  • The Fight for the Labour Party

        The Fight for the Labour Party…. The Labour party is in disarray after the resignation of Ed Miliband (left), as the Labour Party Leader. We all knew there would be no shortage of candidates for the position and it finished up as a short list of four ; Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper, Liz…

  • Heavy traffic ahead….

    1553 page kisses……thank you to each and every one of you special people

  • An Old Friendship Rediscovered….

       As I lay in bed last night … awaiting the sweet embrace of MORPHEUS (and for all you purists, I know that technically, Morpheus is written up as the god of dreams, but widely categorised in modern times as the god of Dreams and/or sleep…Whatever did HYPNOS do to get forgotten so easily ?… probably fallen into…

  • WordPress Daily Post…”You’re a Winner”

    In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “You’re a Winner!.” Karl Marx once said (allegedly)…”Religion is the opium of the masses”…I think in modern times the ‘religion’ could well be replaced with…’The Lottery”… The Lottery is now the opium of the masses. Do you ‘do’ the lottery ?? I certainly do, in fact I…

  • Blogging 101…alles Fertig !!!…Done and dusted !!!

    Blogging 101 is finished at last …HUSSAR !!! it’s been a real journey through the world of IT and the WordPress platform in particular (well…for a technophobe like me it has !!) I’ve been frustrated …a lot…despondent…a lot, and Ive learned a lot, but the biggest thing that has happened is that I’ve met a…

  • Blogging 101…Task 13… Try another ‘Event’

    In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Half and Half.” Well I struggled mightily to find an ‘event’ congruent with my own blog, searching for two days, off and on, (after all we do need to break in order to eat sleep etc…in desperation I chose to do what I thought to be…

  • Blogging 101…Task 12… 6 views and 4 comments…

    Task 12 was to look at 6 other blogs that were using the same prompt as me and comment on what was written … Easy peasy, though looking for the blogs took some effort as not many bloggers chose to write about the same prompt as I chose … still, it’s done and only one…

  • Blogging 101…Task 11…Make a ‘Prompt’ personal…

    In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt:    “Let It Be.           “A restaurant that removed your favorite item from the menu, a bad cover of a great song… Write a post about something that should’ve been left untouched, but wasn’t. Why was the original better? <a href=”https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/let-it-be/”>Let It Be</a>…

  • Blogging 101…Task 10… Improve your Blogroll…

    Hello fellow Bloggers…task 10 done and dusted… This time the task was quite an easy one for an ageing technophobe like yours truly. I’ve settled for 20 blogs as I feel any more would be a little unruly to handle…but…that’s not to say other blogs are not worthy of my mention/follow..far from it. I have…

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