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Significantly Different

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.

Tag Archives: Life

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to all, but how did it get to be the year 2026? I grew up in a small farming community. I loved the freedom of playing outdoors, walking along the nearby beach, skimming stones in the water and watching the animals in the fields, especially the lambs playfully leaping in springtime. ItContinue reading “Happy New Year!”

Posted bycapndarcyJanuary 2, 2026Posted inLifeTags:aging, Childhood, Future, Life, Memories, New Year

Moving on

My plan to delete certain social media sites is still ongoing but two out of the three have now gone and I must say, while I thought it would be difficult, it has been surprisingly easy to achieve. Also surprising is that I am reading more, and in more depth. I was finding that I,Continue reading “Moving on”

Posted bycapndarcyJanuary 31, 2025Posted inLife, UncategorizedTags:Life, new experiences, Social media

I, Baba.

It has been a difficult year. Not in any tragic or dramatic sense but simply a year that has seemed without meaningful purpose or direction. When I turned sixty, three years ago, I actively sought out new challenges and directions for my life. I love being ‘old’ enough to be what and who I want,Continue reading “I, Baba.”

Posted bycapndarcyDecember 9, 2023Posted inLifeTags:aging, family, grandchildren, Grandparent, grandparents, Life, Little Explosions, love, Memories, Purpose

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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