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People Still Care, Don’t They?

Dean Whitbread — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 19:58:29 +0000

I was telling someone yesterday that at some point, I stopped knowing why I was pumping out online stuff to an audience which was measurable, but distant. “Why do you share all these pictures?” she asked. “People like it!” I responded. I started to show her some stats, but that was simply crude. I was […]

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Up at 5am

Dean Whitbread — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 06:13:39 +0000

Awake at 5am (4:58 to be precise), breakfast at 6am after lying in bed wondering if I am really awake, then examining myself for physical tiredness and realising my brain was doing its normal hello-day-chat. This internal monologue (which used to be a dialogue, but I’m lonelier now) alerts me to the fact of my […]

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Cheating

Dean Whitbread — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 09:37:35 +0000

Is it cheating if you do it because you suspect that they are cheating? (ok, I got the answer as soon as I saw that written down …) I won’t reveal her name. She posted it on a popular, free social network. I replied: Let’s look at that word “cheating”. It implies love is a […]

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The Lord’s Prayer

Dean Whitbread — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:34:58 +0000

In desperation he began to pray. He was rusty, he didn’t know anything about the god to whom he was conducting his prayer. He half-believed he was wasting time creating a slender thread of hope which would only disappoint him later, when all that threatened to fail had failed. But he prayed anyway, beginning with […]

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18 month’s use from a disposable coffee cup

Dean Whitbread — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:32:23 +0000

This take-away coffee cup lasted 18 months as a coffee filter drips catcher in my kitchen. I was actually surprised when it finally sprang a leak! I just slooshed it with clean water every so often. Amazingly well made.

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Why Pick On November?

Dean Whitbread — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:21:36 +0000

November – the month when, in the north, the skies darken, chill winds howl, frosts harden the ground underfoot, car windscreens are wearily scraped, the days grow shorter and heating bills grow ever larger. In the teeth of this most testing time, with no break in sight for two months, Christmas is a distant island […]

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Demand Fish

Dean Whitbread — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 10:23:53 +0000

I book an expensive restaurant for a week, every day the same time, same table, which will be in a prominent, visible place, near the window preferably. I take my place at the table, and without looking at the menu, demand fish. The waiter asks me which fish dish I would like, and I always […]

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Ants

Dean Whitbread — Sat, 26 May 2012 14:15:49 +0000

Ants move back and forth along their highway Certain of it, as we are certain of tolls and bridges Ice cream and fridges Sped up with sun, racing to escape the season Ants know their business Greetings a chemical exchange Legs, antennae Accomplishing wordless natter As they move in purposeful bursts Run – stop. Run […]

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All People That On Earth Do Dwell

Dean Whitbread — Thu, 03 May 2012 07:47:13 +0000

I’m really not very religious, but I sometimes receive messages from my subconscious to look up some parts of the Christian creed. All English schoolchildren were sloppily indoctrinated into some or other Christian brand until the invention of political correctness and the awareness that stressing the exclusivity of Jesus as the one true God did […]

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One Final Weekend

Dean Whitbread — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:26:21 +0000

In two days time, I will have stood at life’s glorious batting crease for half a century. In cricketing terms, I’m at the very least due a round of polite applause, depending on the state of the game. One dare not hope for greater praise. So I shall, with as much grace as I can […]

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