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A Cosmopolitan Life
Today I have created my profile for this Life's Journey. I am learning as I go along, and really don't know where I am heading, even though I have travelled widely, round the world many times, I am...
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World in Turmoil around Calcutta in the 1940s
How time flies when you are retiredIn the last fortnight, including the May Bank Holiday weekend, time disappeared like shooting stars! Life was hectic with luncheons here and coffee mornings there; I...
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LIFE OF CONTRASTS
What a difference the sun makes!Last week was gloriously hot, and we thought summer had finally arrived! We were fooled again, as the rain showed no sign of stopping for three days. We tidied our...
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LIFE CHANGING CRISIS IN INDIA
Afternoon tea at the White Horse Hotel June this year fleeted by at great speed, in July we were really pleased to see our dear friends, Sue and Ivor, who brought over some Australian sunshine from...
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TIME IS THE ESSENCE IN LIFE
TIME WAS FLEET-FOOTED THIS AUGUST, VANISHING IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE, AS SEPTEMBER CAME TOO SOON!I'm not out of the woods yetThe main problem with retirement is time that refused to stand still; each...
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LIFE BEGINS AGAIN AFTER EVERY STORM
St. Jude's Day Storm was disruptive CYCLONES AND TYPHOONS WREAKED HAVOC As we put our clock back an hour for extra daylight in winter, urgent warnings were broadcasted of a severe storm approaching the...
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GOODBYE TO A VERY DIFFICULT YEAR 2013!
Happy New Year 2014We wish you all Health, Wealth and Prosperity this YEAR, whatever your job, wherever you live, and however hard life had been for you in the past, let us all begin anew with hope for...
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NEW START FOR A NEW YEAR!
INTERESTING START TO 2014Fireworks on the ThamesFireworks around the world welcomed in 2014 with a panacea of beautiful design and vibrant colours, lighting up the world's skies with sparkles and...
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WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE....NOR ANY DROP TO DRINK!
Global warming? More like global flooding! It felt like Great Britain was drowning under the weight of our precipitation, so sodden was the soil in fields and low-lying towns and villages, that nearly...
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BRILLIANT SUMMER 2014
Croatia It's been a long break from the last blog I posted in April. In just a few months the weather has changed from soggy to brilliant sunshine, a veritable reward for our patience over the...
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TIME DOES NOT STOP FOR ANYONE
Christmas and New Year Greetings to you! Where did November Go - somehow I have missed a whole month and now Christmas Sales seemed to have started without me! Well, I just have to make the most of...
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A WORLD FULL OF CULTURES, RELIGIONS AND LANGUAGES On the day of departure my brother Yee Leong accompanied me on the train journey from Calcutta, where I was born to Chinese parents, to Bombay from...
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