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Thursday, July 17, 2025

Sixty Five

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Sixty Five   This weekend will mark my 65 th  birthday. For some reasons I only partially understand, this birthday seems to carry some extr...
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Thursday, June 26, 2025

Dreams can come true

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  Our move to Portugal has often been described as fulfilment of a long-held dream. In some respects that is a fair description, but we lear...
Friday, May 30, 2025

Cancer in other people

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    My remarkable run of good health has continued And I feel almost as well now as I did before cancer struck. It becomes even easier to fo...
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Anniversaries

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  Anniversaries   Last weekend, at Easter, offered me by chance a trio of very different anniversaries. It is strange how these coincidences...
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Monday, April 14, 2025

Shrinking Tumours

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  The last few weeks have taken a circuitous route to added uncertainty. I had my second MRI in Portugal in mid-March and met the oncologist...
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Thursday, March 20, 2025

Staying active with some limits

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  You do receive quite a lot of advice as a cancer patient. Mostly this comes from people trying to be positive and sympathetic, and is very...
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Second Fiddle

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 P artnerships are important in all our lives. Many of our activities we complete as a pair. For most of us, most significant are our marria...
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I am Graham Bobby, a Brit, born in 1960. I married in 2012, acquiring two teenagers to add to my daughter born in 1989 from my former marriage. After working for 28 years for Shell, I took the decision to do very different things in my 50’s so retired in 2010. In my working life, I’ve been lucky enough to see most of Europe, and have lived in Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands as well as England and Ireland. I did lots of different jobs, with marketing, strategy and line management recurring themes. What different things in my 50’s? Writing, studying something creative, coaching, and making music through singing and choir conducting are my dreams. It should be nice to be able to follow my own heart in all these things rather than being constrained by money and convention. I started blogging in Shell in 2007, and built quite a large following as a relatively senior manager prepared to tackle controversial issues and give balanced advice. I have a subversive streak and love dark humour. At my best I can be creative and inspirational, but more often I’m just cynical and bitchy.
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