HeyJaredDiary of an Urban Grandad
I write about the everyday adventures of my life on the foothills of retirement. Tends to involve family stuff, dogs, coffee shops, some motorbikes and my life as a lazy half-arsed travel writer. Come on in...
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How do you ever lose weight? (opens the original)
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Don’t know how it’s hanging round your neck of the woods, dear reader, but it’s been a bit of a trying time here at Cullimore Cottage recently. Nothing to do with the weather, the world or even the turn of the tide in the affairs of man. Oh, no. The things causing botheration round these parts are far more mundane. And it’s all my own fault, too, sadly. Nothing I can blame on anyone else. Not even a tiny bit. No finger pointing or wagging on this one. Sigh. Mea culpa, as the Romans would probabl
The things that happen when you’re walking the dog... (opens the original)
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There goes the neighbourhood... (opens the original)
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Don’t know about you, dear reader, but right now I am feeling pretty excited. In fact, that is a grotesque and unpardonable understatement. Let me try that again. Ahem. Right now, dear reader, I am feeling so excited my head could fall off at any moment. I am so very excited my ears could turn to crackers and I wouldn’t even notice. Right now, I feel like a monkey in a banana factory. A monkey who has just come to the end of a three week banana drought and can’t wait to get stuck in. Phew. That’
Me ... and the Three Cycling Sisters (opens the original)
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Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be... (opens the original)
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