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Toe in the Water

by Beholden

Rated: 13+ · Book · Experience · #2223922

A tentative blog to test the temperature.

Ten years ago I was writing several blogs on various subjects - F1 motor racing, Music, Classic Cars, Great Romances and, most crushingly, a personal journal that included my thoughts on America, memories of England and Africa, opinion, humour, writing and anything else that occurred. It all became too much (I was attempting to update the journal every day) and I collapsed, exhausted and thoroughly disillusioned in the end.

So this blog is indeed a Toe in the Water, a place to document my thoughts in and on WdC but with a determination not to get sucked into the blog whirlpool ever again. Here's hoping.

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

Beholden

21 minutes ago
In response to "Review, Anyone?"

Ah, now you're asking, Intuey. The truth is that Paddy McGinty's Ghost started out as a sort of misheard version of the song, Paddy McGinty's Goat. I liked the error and decided it could be the basis of a decent story to meet the requirements on a contest that was running in celebration of Ireland. I started with only a title and a picture prompt to go on and just followed the trail from there.

Like most of the stories I write in that way, I wasn't that impressed with it at first. But I liked it better on reading it much later, so I guess you could say it's about middling in my affections now. "Quite good" would be a good way to describe it.

Beholden

31 minutes ago
In response to "Music to My Ears"

As my father would say when asked how he knew something, a little bird told me. No, I have no idea where that comes from - it's probably a quote from an obscure movie.

And that is certainly eclectic taste in music. Even more than mine, I think.

intuey of House Lannister

37 minutes ago
In response to "Review, Anyone?"

As someone who just reviewed an item in your port, I can't help but wonder, Did I pick an item that you'd throw out? I hope not. I thought it was quite good.

intuey of House Lannister

42 minutes ago
In response to "Music to My Ears"

Since you asked, yes, my music taste are eclectic. How did you know?

That is if liking everything from a bit of hard rock, classic rock to Bette Midler, Cher, Elton John, the Beatles, Seager, Classical, jazz, the blues, etc... is considered eclectic.

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Ned

55 minutes ago
In response to "Music to My Ears"

1. Because everyone wants to be interesting. Also, it's safer to like everything because people are always looking for a fight these days.

2. To find out if the other person is eclectic enough and if not, we can fight them.

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Beholden

Apr 19, 2024 at 5:34am
In response to "Tomorrow Today"

No aspersions were intended to be cast at all by this post, least of all on you, Kiya. The thought is not new and is expressed in most religions as the fallen nature of man (to use the Christian way of putting it). It's just that I read the question being asked somewhere yesterday and it sparked that response in me when I asked it of myself. My answer was indeed, "Sorry, I don't have a clue."

It is kind of you to say the post is well articulated and I hope you're right. But as for being a sir, mea non culpa, fortunately.

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iKïyå§ama-House Targaryen

Apr 19, 2024 at 5:17am
In response to "Tomorrow Today"

I'm not exactly sure what this post was supposed to prove...that little ol' me is not perfect? Surely you jest, my friend!

Seriously, this is a very interesting food for thought. Well articulated, sir.

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Beholden

Apr 17, 2024 at 7:19am
In response to "Favourite Misspellings # 1"

The important thing is you got the joke!

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Lilith of House Martell

Apr 17, 2024 at 7:13am
In response to "Favourite Misspellings # 1"

LOL, I went for the parties and got the paper as a bonus.

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Beholden

Apr 16, 2024 at 4:34pm
In response to "Review, Anyone?"

What I'm going to suggest, {suser:tracker 1948}, is one of the first things I wrote after joining WDC. So it's "old" but still one of my favourites. I think you'll like it but that doesn't mean you have to. Just tell me the truth.

STATIC

James James

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Homage to AA Milne. Winner of The Writer's Cramp. Finalist in Talk of the Flight Deck.
#2193260 by Beholden

September 1, 2021 at 8:25pm

#1016530

On Being Mistaken

On Being Mistaken

I realised a long time ago that I should not listen to someone’s opinion of another. All too often I believed in the truth of the assessment I’d be given, only to find that, once I’d met the subject of that opinion, I thought of them very differently. How can people be so wrong about someone, I asked myself.

It took a while to learn how to take things with a large pinch of salt but I mastered the art eventually. And now I won’t judge you until I know you. Of course, sometimes I get it wrong and I’ve been known to make the most awful gaffe’s in personality assessment. But at least they’re my mistakes, and not someone else’s.

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