R's rue

  It’s funny... But I do find the presence of stuffed toys in a totally adult household , just a bit creepy.  I say this with the sudden realisation that I have three stuffed toys in the house. Colin The Chameleon , with his jaunty leg kicked sideways underneath the art wall; a cute duck billed platypus bought from Sydney Zoo is sat in my bedroom book case  and a now almost 40 year old Garfield sat benignly in my living room cupboard with a gentle smile upon his face. I reassure myself that owing stuffed toys only really becomes creepy when they occupy your bed, you know the sort, sat unseeing , face forward between the pillows ..... that’s when toys are creepy Garfield was given to my by my twin sister when we were in our twenties. I liked his slightly cynical view on life back then, and that’s a riot in itself.  When most young people were saving the whale, joining Amnesty International ( which I later did lol)   and stretching their political wi...

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A decade ago today, I was sitting in my lovely "Lotus Room" in northern Bangkok watching live television. I had turned the magic box on because I wanted to watch the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. It was a happy, joyful event beamed to me from London on the other side of the world. Today we are all ten years older. Normally it is hard to track the aging process after just one year but a full decade is different. Hair is perhaps lost or greyer, eyes become more tired, lines start to form, girth may increase. A decade's worth of old people will have died as a decade's worth of babies arrived to take their places. A kind of shunting along. Prince William still seems like a really nice guy. You can see it in his eyes. There is an earnestness about him and an innate dignity. He really cares about the plights of less fortunate people. In  Catherine he found a lovely, intelligent  spouse who understands what duty means. So different from the other two wh...