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A life not a lifestyle. Being the peripatetic ponderings and mindless musings of a part time pirate and pensionista

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    • Shaking the Family Tree
    • A Joyless Church
    • Alternative Baby Names
    • And so it Continues
    • A Family Remembrance.
  • Hobbies
    • Extreme Crochet
    • Wordle and Workouts
    • Learning to Paint.
    • Developing Green Fingers.
    • The Garden Experiment.
  • Holidays
    • A Holiday of Firsts
    • Travel in the Time of Covid
    • Travel in the Time of Covid. Part II
    • An Idea For A Holiday
    • Crossing Europe by Train
    • Where Have All The Years Gone?
    • A Love of Portraits
    • Photographs
    • Staycation
    • Dinner and Lunch: Two locations.
    • Eriskay and the S.S. Politician
    • Clean Plates.
    • Cemetery Strolling
    • The Reason.
  • Landmarks
    • Hidden in Plain Sight
    • Kitchener’s Memorial or HMS Hampsire Memorial?
  • Life
    • Finding Peace
    • Heels are Hell
    • Irrationally Angry
    • Love Food. Hate Cooking!
    • Age is Only Important for Cheese and Wine
    • Endings and Beginnings.
    • Revisiting the Past
    • Voting Rights
    • The Soup, and Icecream, of Doom
    • Saints and Witches
    • Learning to Love Audiobooks
    • Vivienne Westwood
    • Edinburgh Fringe
    • Edinburgh Fringe 2023
    • Discovering Treachery
    • I, Baba.
    • A Year of Swedish Death Cleaning.
    • Getting Up and Getting Old.
    • Shopping with a 4 year old
    • Running Away From Home
    • Happy New Year!
    • January, I am so over you.
    • Labour. One Year On.
    • The Bookshelf Rule.
  • Piratesmas
    • Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day
    • Pirate Celebrations
  • Refugees
    • Refugees: Myths and Realities
  • Reviews
    • The 4th Estate is Letting Us Down
    • The mythology of the English Village
    • Hating Peter Tatchell
    • Refugee Stories by Refugees
    • Facts are Subversive
    • The Viceroy’s House.
    • Julia
    • The Power of Good Television
    • Lord Emsworth and Marxism.
    • Two Entertainments in One.
  • Unpopular Opinions
    • Unpopular Opinion: Dogs off-lead.
    • State Mandated Grief.

Category Archives: Life

Irrationally Angry

The Wing Commander’s vehicle has gone to the garage for its annual service. One of the consequences of this is that he has to borrow mine. I’m not a jealous or selfish Supreme Commander so a little car sharing is absolutely fine. Especially as he went to do the weekly grocery shop. Except, *closes eyesContinue reading “Irrationally Angry”

Posted bycapndarcySeptember 28, 2021September 29, 2021Posted inLifeTags:drama, irrational

Heels are Hell

Today I went shopping, actual going-to-the-mall-to-buy-things shopping, for the first time in a year and a half. Oh, I’ve been to the supermarket and out-of-town stores but this was the first time I had ventured into the city and walked through a shopping centre with the intention of buying stuff. Well, there were only twoContinue reading “Heels are Hell”

Posted bycapndarcySeptember 11, 2021November 9, 2021Posted inLifeTags:Life, Shoes, Shopping

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