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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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    • Hello and Welcome!
  • Family tree
    • 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.
  • 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
  • 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: Unpopular Opinions

State Mandated Grief.

The Queen is dead. I have absolutely no feelings about her passing although I empathise with the family who have lost a mother and grandmother. She was a familiar figure throughout my life but I never met nor wished to meet her. I had hoped that the death of the monarch would pass without theContinue reading “State Mandated Grief.”

Posted bycapndarcySeptember 14, 2022Posted inUncategorized, Unpopular OpinionsTags:Modern Britain, Monarchy, Public grief, Public Madness

Unpopular Opinion: Dogs off-lead.

“You’re on a walk and you see a dog on a lead. Your dog is running free. Q: What should you do next? Is it: A: put your dog on a lead B. Let your dog run over and say hello. C: Shout “Don’t worry, he’s friendly.” Or D: What dog? You were playing candyContinue reading “Unpopular Opinion: Dogs off-lead.”

Posted bycapndarcyNovember 24, 2021Posted inUnpopular OpinionsTags:Dog walking, Opinion
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