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Now I have no actual official plans to get married, but I just happened to be watching this show called "Last Cake Standing" and they were doing a wedding cake challenge which set me to random musings on the subject.

I have mentioned before how I am generally not really a cake person but if I am going to have a cake I prefer it be chocolate. I also prefer chocolate frostings over white frostings, and so I determined that my wedding cake would have to be a chocolate cake, ...

Now I do not really watch a lot of sporting events, but today was the Derby and I do enjoy the Triple Crown races, of which The Kentucky Derby is the first and one thing which annoys me about these sorts of events, and of which they also do in the Olympics, and the Super Bowl and I am sure other similar events is those little "human interest" stories in which they feel the need to give mini bios about the athletes of individuals involved and find supposed inspirational stories about their ...

I feel like writing something. Not sure what. Maybe I could write a poem, that seems to be a popular thing at the moment. Gah I just don't have the knack for poetry. I had to study it a little in my first year at uni. Didn't help that my tutor's speciality was poetry. I just don't get it. To me it's not a poem unless it rhymes but it was like everything I knew about poetry was wrong even though there aren't supposed to be any right or wrong answers with this sort of thing. I used to write crummy ...

We’ve all heard this week about the courage of the Navy SEALs. Courage always stirs my heart. Tomorrow being Mother’s Day in the United States I want to highlight the courage of a particular mother. I came across this article earlier in the week.

'After miscarriage I was prepared to risk my life for a baby': Mother with killer condition gives birth despite doctors' abortion advice
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:54 PM on 3rd May 2011

A brave

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...as Timothy Leary almost said, yet today I just hoped that the old Auntie would be able to do just that.

The Old Auntie, who claims she is 82, had to give me her date of birth today when I was phoning up the Digital Switchover people to confirm when the engineer was coming to fit the new free Freeview digital box. (People over 75 get a free box and free fitting as the country goes completely digital). “1922” she said. I made no comment on that, but was able to confirm that the ...