Random Ramblings


Random Ramblings
For the Younger Me
Posted On May 14, 2020
With the days blurring into weeks and now months in this unending lockdown I, like everyone else, have been trying to fill the vacant days. One thing I have been enjoying is trawling through my old notebooks. Thoughts scribbled down in scattered ink, plans whispered in lost words and meeting notes never revisited; a time capsule of another life, bound in leather.
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Filter Photos Not Words.
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