Tag Archives: thoughts

Week Ten: 2022

Posted on Mar 14, 2022 by TanGental

When I started this post, I was planning on going skiing, flying out on Saturday. However to enter France and ski I need to be triple vaccinated (tick) and swear that I have not been in contact with someone who … Continue reading →

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Caught By A Phrase

Posted on Jul 17, 2021 by TanGental

The Textiliste has no sense of smell. Not really. So it wasn’t unusual to have a sack pushed at my face and asked to sniff. Dried lavender, you see. From last year. Collected from the garden it will be used … Continue reading →

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Truth, Lies And Verbal Grouting

Posted on Apr 3, 2020 by TanGental

The lies came early, came often. ‘You’ll like this.’ ‘This won’t hurt.’ ‘The tooth fairy won’t come if…’ ‘Santa will be here tonight.’ Not yet five and already losing credulity. And yet hanging on, keeping a sliver of the faith. … Continue reading →

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The past is always tense, the future perfect #thoughts

Posted on Mar 31, 2020 by TanGental

I wrote this in 2014; not sure what prompted it then. A bit pretentious perhaps but not far from what I believe. The quote in the title is from Zadie Smith – clever woman, that. And it’s what I understand when … Continue reading →

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I Have Worms!

Posted on Apr 10, 2019 by TanGental

Pam Lazos wrote recently, here, on the joys of compost which I can echo. It made me, once again, recognise a parental lesson I received from a young age. My parents, specifically my mother recycled, repurposed and upcycled well before … Continue reading →

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If Music Is The Question…

Posted on Feb 24, 2019 by TanGental

… then at least so far as I concerned Karma Chameleon is not the answer. The year is 1983. The Textiliste and I have moved into a flat in Tooting, a early century, purpose built maisonette, our first purchase. We’d … Continue reading →

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Equine Ambivalence

Posted on Nov 15, 2018 by TanGental

The other day I wrote a post that included a picture of a horse. Someone saw it and expressed a certain concern, wondering if it was happy. It does have notes of eeyore about him. But I was ambivalent, I … Continue reading →

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To End All Wars? A Personal View

Posted on Nov 11, 2018 by TanGental

My father was born on the eleventh November. As a child that was Dad’s birthday; it contained nothing more resonant than that. At some point however, and I wouldn’t have been very old, I realised it was also Remembrance Day … Continue reading →

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Crowing About Everything #scarecrows #halloween #shortstory

Posted on Oct 31, 2018 by TanGental

Scaring Crows. Dog really doesn’t like Crows. Mobbing cloaked things who should be intimidated by a dog but somehow really don’t give a toss. So when someone says they’ll scare Crows, well, Dog for one wants to see, to applaud. … Continue reading →

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What’s Your Truth?

Posted on Jun 20, 2018 by TanGental

I was on my way to meet an old colleague for some lunch. It wasn’t free: he wanted some advice or some such but, hey, it’s nice to get out. I’d walked Dog, the Textiliste is away so off I … Continue reading →

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