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Happy New Year 2016

By Trev Posted on December 31, 2015 8 Comments 3 min read
This could be my longest blog to date, and possibly my most miserabelist if there is such a word. I’ve got to get one or two things off my chest
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Wrong Number From Outer Space

By Trev Posted on December 26, 2015 2 Comments 2 min read
Can you believe this, Tim Peake the UK astronaut on board the International Space Station made a phone call to the wrong number
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Merry Christmas

By Trev Posted on December 24, 2015 0 Comments 2 min read
Merry Christmas. Well, it’s been a year of ups and downs for me as it has for most people. One of the ‘ups’ is taking up blogging and the benefits I’ve found from doing it.
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Miss Universe What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

By Trev Posted on December 22, 2015 2 Comments 1 min read
Well, what a complete fiasco that was! The Miss Universe contest and what could possibly go wrong?
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Star Wars?

By Trev Posted on December 20, 2015 11 Comments 2 min read
Am I the only person in this entire universe that hasn’t had any interest in Star Wars? Every where I turn, there’s a poster advertising midnight showings of the film, kids with green flashy torch things that are supposedly called light sabres!
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Gathering

By Trev Posted on December 18, 2015 5 Comments 2 min read
In response to todays DailyPost prompt, Gathering, I always think of the House of Commons.
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Oops!

By Trev Posted on December 11, 2015 8 Comments 1 min read
This weeks Daily Post Photo Challenge is titled Oops! That moment when you get it all wrong with your photography, you know the one, when you make a complete pigs ear of it!
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The Conjuring

By Trev Posted on December 10, 2015 6 Comments 1 min read
This weeks Photo Rehab Cover Challenge is based on the horror movie ‘The Conjuring’. I’ve used a photograph of a building that is local to where I live.
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It Has All Ended Well After All

By Trev Posted on December 9, 2015 2 Comments 1 min read
I was in hospital waiting for an Angiogram with about 8 other guys, lined up horizontally in our beds,
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Egg Custard

By Trev Posted on December 8, 2015 6 Comments 1 min read
In response to today’s Daily Post Prompt, Pour Some Sugar On It, I have to say that my favourite choice of sweet thing has to be egg custard.
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Bench Series: December

By Trev Posted on December 8, 2015 4 Comments 1 min read
Bench Series : December is a photographic challenge over at Travel Words.
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Strike A Chord

By Trev Posted on December 6, 2015 9 Comments 2 min read
Strike a chord, I’m showing my Grandson the basics of playing guitar, although he’s struggling with such small fingers,
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Eye Spy

By Trev Posted on December 4, 2015 18 Comments 1 min read
The DailyPost Friday Photo Challenge is Eye Spy this week. I always have this fear of driving alone
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The Happiness Project

By Trev Posted on December 3, 2015 9 Comments 1 min read
This weeks Photo Rehab Cover Design is ‘The Happiness Project’ by Gretchen Rubin. I haven’t read the book personally, but it does look the sort of read I would enjoy.
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A Frustrated Singer

By Trev Posted on December 1, 2015 2 Comments 2 min read
In response to the Daily Post prompt, Ballerina Fireman Astronaut Movie Star, this is my story of being a frustrated singer. I always had desires of being a singer/songwriter.
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