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Hi-resolution New Year

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Here we go again, the same old new beginnings,

a clean slate,

a reformed man,

the new you.

Give me a bucket.

A resolution is not a solution.

Grow a new cell. Invent a new gene.

Give birth to new ideas.

In the meantime, I wish.

I wish that my hair grow back as naturally as my hedge in the summer,

that my income would rise higher than my LDL,

that cannabis cigarettes were £4 a pack at the corner shop,

that my flirtations with lady luck actually cashed in £18 million,

that Trump would throw in the towel.

🌷(2)

◄ Half past deluded

The Awakening ►

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Jeff

Sat 7th Jan 2017 10:44

£4 sounds good!...Jeff...

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Paul Waring

Sat 7th Jan 2017 10:14

Raj, well-expressed, and I've had my 'fill' of resolutions too. And, I wish for some of those things too, most especially DT. Paul

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Raj Ferds

Sat 7th Jan 2017 09:46

Now, now that was the desired response.
Let the dichotomy commence.

Thanks Hazel. Sat nam.
Raj x

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Hazel ettridge

Sat 7th Jan 2017 08:25

A bucket? Or a bucket list? Half full or half empty

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