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    Jottings and Scribbles
    Jottings and Scribbles
    Jottings and Scribbles
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    Jottings and Scribbles

    By Lee Benson

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    Wonderfully absurd verse and short tales in Milliganesque style

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAPS Publications
    Release dateDec 13, 2016
    ISBN9781911310389
    Jottings and Scribbles
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    Lee Benson

    Lee Benson is an award-winning journalist with 30 years of experience as a newspaper writer, columnist, and author. He is currently a metro columnist for the Deseret Morning News and wrote numerous columns about the case as it was unfolding.

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      Book preview

      Jottings and Scribbles - Lee Benson

      For Lynne

      CONTENTS

      What Does It Take

      Frimsday

      Vitamin D

      Water

      Communication (In The Modern World)

      Junk Mail

      Junk Haiku

      Cycle Of Hungry Life

      Picking Up That Call

      Watching The World Go By

      The Man With The Mangle

      What Nonsense

      I Am What I Am

      Wrong Path

      Wilderness Migration

      Everything You Own

      M Cocktail

      Reflecting

      The Spirit Of The Sea

      Hurl the Rock

      Bird

      Nikki: A Vision

      Pooka Pooka

      Spiders

      My Daughter – Staying Over For The First Time

      Different Lives

      Kathleen From James Tissot (1836-1902)

      Dick Terrorpin

      Albert Tross

      Sometimes

      Light

      Will You?

      It’s Only A Dream

      Chameleon

      Give And Take

      Shy

      I Believe

      Bear Owl

      Time

      I Love

      The Queen

      Another Day

      Is Life Such A Ball

      I’m Sad

      Bed Time

      The Death of David Bowie

      Josie and Marissa

      Old Soul

      I Like My Hat

      Do We Really Know

      Albi

      Rubbish

      I Am Old

      Astral Plain

      Film

      Bean

      Love On The Phone

      Why Won't You Leave Me Alone

      Oh Lucky Me

      Through My Window

      Space

      Party

      Thinking About Death

      Brand New Day

      Transition Demise

      Playing the Game

      Tuscan Dawn

      Feet

      Sleep

      Magical Potions

      Two Birds

      Crufts Etiquette

      Alcohol

      The Right Note

      Testosterone Turbocharge

      Out of the Night

      Just That

      In Tune

      WHAT DOES IT TAKE?

      What does it take to walk a line

      What does it take to strike a chord

      What does it take to ring that bell

      What does it take to go that extra mile

      For some I fear, it takes too long.

      FRIMSDAY

      Have you ever considered what might be achieved with an extra day in the week.

      Not the weekend, for two days are enough to enjoy and any longer would be a holiday or a mini break.

      I mean an extra day because as you go at full pace, work all hours, physically and mentally you’ve still have not completed your tasks.

      Well, the answer is at hand. A simple entry called Frimsday, usually added between a Thursday and a Friday, with enough hours to enable you to chill afterwards, to put your feet up, to pour a large drink or to simply sneak off to the cinema in the middle of the day and watch that particular film before it vanishes off the big screen.

      It’s so easy and useful except for one thing. Human nature might hijack it, adding extra repeats along with overtime and the like, to stress, yes to stress, to stress you more. So now you’d have a real eight day week and no time to stop, no life. Just no time.

      Stop! I mean it. STOP!

      Take a breath. You don't need my special day. It's mine and she is copyright to yours truly. So find your own way of

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