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    Too Late for Christmas?

    by Bryan 9 February 2026
    9 February 2026 13 minutes read

    It was a vain hope my wife wouldn’t notice, she notices everything, especially when it comes to house details and this was in plain sight. But for a few days …

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    Footprints in the Sand

    by Bryan 12 July 2025
    12 July 2025 13 minutes read

    I followed the footprints in the sand, some large, some small, some barefoot where toes and heels had dug in, and others shod leaving knobbly imprints. They all led in …

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    by Bryan 23 May 2025
    23 May 2025 13 minutes read

    I watched with interest as the man selected a spray can, picked it up and began to empty its contents on the wall in short bursts. Even though I was …

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    Wrong Time Wrong Place?

    by Bryan 21 April 2025
    21 April 2025 14 minutes read

    The sound of deep sobbing startled me. I looked across at my wife, her shoulders heaving up and down; face buried in her hands. What on earth had brought this …

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    Abstraction or Attachment?

    by Bryan 19 March 2025
    19 March 2025 14 minutes read

    Have you ever been somewhere which has not lived up to your expectations? Perhaps you had learned of it as a kid and in your imagination, it had grown into …

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    Sunset or Sunrise?

    by Bryan 28 February 2025
    28 February 2025 14 minutes read

    It is early Friday morning; I look out of the window onto the darkness down below unable to make out anything as the plane I am on climbs to cruising …

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    Taking a Punt

    by Bryan 15 January 2025
    15 January 2025 12 minutes read

    Have you ever wanted to see someone suffer a misfortune? Not a serious one, but a slight one, just enough to cause a little embarrassment to the person involved and …

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    The Pond

    by Bryan 15 December 2024
    15 December 2024 13 minutes read

    High up on a hill in Dorset sits the picturesque village of Ashmore. Dorset is known for its chalk hilltop settlements such as Hambledon Hill which date back thousands of …

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    Unmoved

    by Bryan 18 November 2024
    18 November 2024 13 minutes read

          My brother told me it was the first time in nearly sixty years we had done this together, at least voluntarily. What was this landmark we experienced? Going to …

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    What do you want to see?

    by Bryan 18 October 2024
    18 October 2024 13 minutes read

    Who doesn’t like a good reflection? To see the exact image of something captured on another completely different material is a pleasing sight. When I go out with my camera, …

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Welcome to the reflectivelife, thank you for taking the time to have a look. The aim of this blog is to share a variety of stories I come across and which come across me, in a way which hopefully reflects a bigger story behind. My aim is to tell these stories with both words and photographs (many involve travel), so most posts have a gallery related to them. I suggest you read the post before viewing the gallery.

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