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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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January 6, 2026 at 2:01pm
January 6, 2026 at 2:01pm
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Froggy Went A-Courting

I was watching a rerun of an episode of Everyone Loves Raymond when it all came back to me. This was the one where Robert’s prospective girlfriend eats a fly. I exploded with delight and recalled horror.

It was as though something that I’d thought must have come from a dream had suddenly exploded into reality. How original and daring of the writers to have the idea in the first place and then go through with it. That’s the kind of thing I want and now they’ve used it and it’s gone forever.

Imagine that. Imagine having an idea so far off the beaten track that you cannot be sure whether it’ll get you proclaimed in the town square or condemned as an insane maniac. Would you do it anyway?

And think of the power this puts in our hands. With a few keystrokes of the ‘puter we can explode reality and defy the probable.

Come to think of it, that’s the only reason I am subjecting myself to The Bradbury again - for the chance that, in obeying the order to produce, I’ll stumble across my fly waiting to be devoured. If New Year must have its resolution, that’s mine.

Word count: 200
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