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Passing My Driving Test!

January 25, 2019
Location: Blogs, Daily Life

Yesterday I took my practical driving test and YES I passed! I was ecstatic, but to be honest I’ve been so overwhelmed by so much going on in my life I had almost forgotten about it until the day before. Still, I couldn’t help but feel nervous. My examiner was the funniest little old man …

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Happy New Year!

January 7, 2019
Location: Blogs, Daily Life

Yes! We’re here! A week late I know, and there is genuinely no excuse for that! But 2019, what a year ahead of us. This is going to be a big one. I love the new year celebrations more than Christmas, although admittedly they are both very different. However, the past week I cannot seem …

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Chemin des Bonshommes

December 23, 2018
Location: Blogs, Daily Life

Its been a busy few weeks, and I sadly haven’t had time to write for ages. Comeback time. Part of the reason for business, apart from the ever-looming cloud of stress from college, working weekends and the struggle of maintaining a social life and a decent sleep schedule, is due to the plans my friends …

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Imagine the Perfect Island

December 7, 2018
Location: Blogs, Free Writing

07/12/18 – 20mins Imagine the perfect island, one far out into the sea. With coves and beaches and shingle, all saved for you and me. Here we may rest our sore feet, and like sweetest flowers grow, Where we are hidden, under the trees, no one else shall know.   Come with me to the …

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A Memory Worth a Mention

November 30, 2018
Location: Blogs, Daily Life

A couple of days ago, musing as one does, a memory flitted through my mind from some years ago. I was sitting in silence, something i rarely do. It was a memory from my old home in Gara Bridge, it must have been at least five years since we left that valley, but I will …

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Development and the Emancipation of Women is Key to Sustaining Humanity

November 21, 2018
Location: Blogs, Daily Life

Increasing population growth is perhaps one of the most serious threats to the environment. The 7.5 billion mouths that need feeding in the world force commercialised production and lead to a serious environmental impact. Main threats posed to the environment would be an increase of natural resources needed to sustain humanity, increased emissions, and increased …

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