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    here comes the rain again…

    Apologies for the slight lapse, but it’s been something of a frenetic week! In addition to a steady stream of eager gentleman callers from all corners of the globe, I have taken the bull by the horns and not only attended a long overdue eye test for some new spectacles (those who have witnessed me squinting myopically and stumbling Magoo-like…

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    i did it (all) my way…

    Well some cause for celebration indeed – the final site (for the time being) to be caught out using my copyrighted text has finally removed it, following almost six weeks of emails, variously apportioned blame and buck-passing and eventually a formal complaint by me to the hosting company, a course of action I would highly recommend to other ladies with…

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    hell hath no fury…

    As much as I dislike negativity and genuinely hate to rant, vent, whinge or whatever (and all joking aside, I really do) I just cannot avoid saying that this last week I have been astonished, to the point of speechlessness, by the telephone callers. Absolutely dumbstruck. Not the emailers, all of whom (AW excepted, needless to say) have been fine.…