There is something very special about receiving and welcoming visitors to my place, be they those with familiar faces and voices who have tasted my hospitality many times, or those whose names are hitherto unknown to me and whose shoes have never crossed my threshold before. Whenever someone chooses to pitch up at my doorstep in friendship and with goodwill, I am filled anew with the keen excitement of an interrupted journey restarted or with the curious anticipation of the first gripping chapter of what will soon become a favourite novel.
So, whether you are an established friend with whom I have shared thoughts and experiences, or an unknown first-timer to my address, you are invited in equal measure to enter my world and to spend as much or as little of your time with me as you feel comfortable to spare. Consider yourself welcome and at home! Thank you so much for popping in.
GRAHAM'S PERSONAL BLOG:
"FROM MY POINT OF VIEW..."
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We all walk up to a mirror knowing instinctively what we’re going to see every time, and when a day comes along where that picture suddenly and dramatically no longer reflects back the image that you “knew” would stare back at you, it takes a brave and rather cool – no, ice cold! – individual not to draw in one’s breath and be stunned by what could suddenly have happened to change the picture so radically and so unexpectedly. And the oh-so-beguiling immediate reaction is to assume the foetal position, to retreat, to draw down the shutters and to exclude everything and everyone from the core of your world.
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