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Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 472 of Re-Modified Lock Down Level 4 and still alcohol free. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 98 days The topic of today’s Ruminant Pink Friday ™ is an updated and abbreviated excerpt from a speech I gave at Nerine’s 50th birthday celebration regarding our family and marriage inContinue reading “Ruminations on Marriage, the Philosopher, and the Matriarch”

Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 465 of Re-Modified Lock Down Level 4 and alcohol free. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 91 days So firstly, Nerine is on the mend and slowly recovering from Covid. Oxygen and temperature good. Feistiness returning daily. The topic of today’s Ruminant Pink Friday ™ is going to beContinue reading “Ruminations on an Inauspicious Career and Being an Old Weed”

Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 458 of Re-Modified Lock Down Currently Level 3. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 84 days So firstly, we have Covid in our house again and Nerine tested positive on Tuesday after feeling sick on Monday. We are monitoring her very carefully. I had the first dose of theContinue reading “Ruminations on Being Pecked to Death by Morons”

Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 451 of Re-Modified Lock Down Currently Level 3. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 77 days The topic of our search for meaning and substance abuse is the topic for today’s Ruminant Pink Friday ™. The puritans among you may think that you find your best inspiration when youContinue reading “Ruminations on Campfires, Bakleiwater and Finding the Truth”

Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 444 of Re-Modified Lock Down Currently Level 2. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 71 days Swearing is an appropriate topic for Ruminant Pink Friday ™. I grew up in a household where there was a high tolerance level for swearing. My father taught me to perform maintenance onContinue reading “Ruminations on profanity, swearing and exclusive clubs”

Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 444 of Re-Modified Lock Down Currently Level 2. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 64 days On the 31st of May I turned 60 and an appropriate topic for Ruminant Pink Friday™ is thus some ruminations on being 60. I did not choose to be 60 it just sortContinue reading “Ruminations on being a 60-year-old South African Mlungu, Colonialist, Privileged Man”

Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 437 of Re-Modified Lock Down Currently Level 1. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 57 days Generally Ruminant Pink Friday™ ruminations seek to be irreverent, eccentric, and whimsical. Every now and then I need to throw in a polemic and today is that day. This may be to doContinue reading “A polemic on what you are responsible for”

Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 423 of re-modified lock down currently Level 1 but with a gathering 3rd wave. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 50 days This week the topic for Ruminant Pink Friday™ relates to some deep introspection regarding some recent events in my life. I will start with the principle of synchronicity fromContinue reading “Ruminations on the principle of synchronicity, narratives, and objective reality”

Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 416 of Re-Modified Lock Down Currently Level 1. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 43 days This week the topic for Ruminant Pink Friday™ relates to this notion of lived experiences. So, what are lived experiences? It is the case that the term “lived experience” comes up most often in discussionsContinue reading “Ruminations on the lived experiences of a grumpy white cisgender centre right previously advantaged pensioner”

Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 409 of Re-Modified Lock Down Currently Level 1. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 37 days This week the topic for Ruminant Pink Friday™ relates to my reintroduction to playing chess in my fifties. When I was at school in the seventies, I was the captain of the school chess club.Continue reading “Ruminations of an ageing chess bore”