Mike's Meandering Mumbles

I did mention ducks, didn’t I? and we all know about peacocks!

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The latest addition to the menagerie is two ducks, supposedly guaranteed to lay daily. An overstatement, since not a single egg has yet come our way. However they are camping out at the back of the house at present while awaiting the preparation of a pond at the farm so maybe they are just expressing [...]

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I have recently been deeply affected by one of those peculiarly Philippine technical problems. Although I have broadband to the city house suddenly I had neither a telephone line nor the internet. Five and a half days later once again I was online, after spending what seemed like hours on my handphone to PLDT everyday. [...]

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Although I have been a cat person for many years (in spite of having Rosie, my lovely Old English Sheepdog, many years ago) it seems that I am transforming into a doggie guy. Of course the main reason is that we need dog protection for the city house and the farm but we are slowly [...]

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I came across this delightful method of walking through the city on verdant turf the other day, but since I am rather more of a lazy character I feel that I would probably be better suited to using the biker’s variant (although naturally too wimpy to actually be a biker). However there is very little [...]

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Having found a rare roach in the toilet I then found that the loo was to remain a major feature in my life at the moment. With all the major surgery that my bowel’s have had it seems that my stomach is fairly easily upset. Last night I awoke to find that an urgent trip [...]

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At 5:30 am, when going for my morning constitutional, I was sorry to see a cockroach on its back. Not that I would have preferred to see it the right way up, since I dislike the creatures. Earlier in my life, especially in Nigeria and the Gulf, I had been used to them. Indeed entering [...]

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