Glass - 'Diving For Pearls'
(200 words or less on the theme of 'glass') Diving for PearlsWhat you see is what you get.That’s what I used to tell people. But lately that’s not quite true. It seems that there are elements of myself...
View ArticleThought Experiment - Inspired by the book 'The Ego Trip'
I have recently read again Julian Baggini's "The Ego Trick', a brilliant book which looks at "the nature of self in an entertaining and comprehensive, easily understandable...
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The Windmill House - Thoughts From the Island
The sky has changed from earlier this morning from a hazy grey to a brilliant, clear blue. White cumulus clouds float motionless above the roof of the house and the sun shines hot on the back of my...
View ArticleIt's Hot, Hot, Hot - how are you coping ?
I thought I ought to write a post here, on the day that temperatures across the UK are likely to exceed the highest we've ever known - after all, it might be a day, week or month which is remembered...
View ArticleAnother Milestone in Life's Journey - age is just a number
On reaching sixty five years old ... Until around 2010 I'd imagined my 65th birthday to be more of a milestone than it's turned out to be, though the words 'pension' and 'retirement' age are so...
View ArticleWhat Is A Story - The Ultimate In Self Preservation
Storytelling - the Ultimate in Self PreservationWhat is a story ? A story or narrative is a connected series of events told through words, in the case of a book, written words. Stories can be told...
View ArticleOn the Death of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth the 2nd - 1926 - 1922
Her Majesty the Queen died yesterday afternoon at Balmoral where she had been staying since earlier this summer. Though we know that death is an inevitable part of life, when the time comes for a...
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A Question of Faith or Faiths & Reconciling My Own
As King Charles III assumes the role of monarch his views and opinions on 'faith' will no doubt again be discussed. From those he has voiced in the past, and most recently since the death of his mother...
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The Observer
The ObserverShe sits, motionless yet alert Eyes wide and searchingWings folded, feathers smoothed.Relishing the remaining tastes of vole or rabbit.She waits.As wind blown leaves drift into sightHer...
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Are You Overthinking ? In Support of Breathing
Do you lie awake at night thinking of everything that’s happened that day and wondering what’s going to happen tomorrow? Are you finding it difficult to remember things?Do you worry constantly about...
View ArticleWell Said, Mr Micawber - Something Mostly Does Turn Up
Here we are, already on the 3rd day of the new year of 2023 and I have been berating myself over the weekend for not having a thought or two worth expressing here about anything at all. Anyone looking...
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When Words Fail, Music Speaks - Lost Chord
It has long been recognised and accepted that listening to and taking part in musical activities has an effect on our feelings and emotions. We all have pieces of music or songs which reminds us of a...
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Battle of the Hard Copy - 12 Years On
Came across this post of mine from 12 years ago :Battle of the Hard Copy Write-Place (wwwrite-place.blogspot.com in which I write that in the battle of 'book versus e.reader', I would argue for the...
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Know Thyself - Me Being Me
Looking back over past posts that I have written for this blog - as I often do when I need to focus my mind on one new thing to write about - I found a post from way back with this title, "Know...
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We Need Books - World Book Day 2023
Yesterday morning, 1st March, I began writing a blog post about St David's Day. I was interested to learn that he is the only British/Irish saint to be born in the country that he is patron of. Also...
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The Human Condition : #Embracing Equity & International Women's Day, 2023
Yesterday 8th March, 2023 was International Women's Day with the campaign theme of #EmbraceEquity.I did have this post written yesterday morning but didn't get around to posting it as my day was...
View ArticleTuesday 25th July 2023
I could begin this by asking myself ... what should I write today ? or, I have been meaning to write something for a while now - as has been the precursor to many of the posts on this blog, over the...
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Save Water - Bathe with a friend : Re blogged 13 years on
Well, here we are seven days into July and some parts of the country are starting with hose pipe bans. Now I know we must not waste water, after all it's one of the most precious natural things we have...
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To Where We Belong - Musings on a mill pond
He first went there with his school, long ago. The teachers had told the classes that the stone work was from Roman times; remnants from hundreds of years back. It turned out that it wasn’t Roman at...
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Talking to Strangers - It's good for your health (part one)
I have been thinking about the topic of the title I have given to this post for some time, and thought that today being World Mental Health Day I thought that I ought to at least attempt to put my...
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Seventy Five Years On - "I Am Neveen" - A Palestinian Child's Story
The Nakba - the "disaster" or "catastrophe" was the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948 and the permanent displacement of Palestinian Arabs. The term is used to describe both the...
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Spiral
Spiral Linearity does not come naturally.It kills the imagination and nothing happens. No bell rings, no moment of here and now, no moment saying yes.Without these, where is alive ?I prefer the...
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29th February 2024 - An Extra Day or An Extra Day of Work ?
So, if you hadn't realised - like me who didn't until I checked the calendar for my dogs grooming appointment - today is an 'extra' day, this being a Leap Year. One solar year, the amount of time it...
View ArticleEmpty Rooms - reblogged
Reblogged from April 2010Not much topical, intellectual or discussable stuff in my mind at the moment (well, not that I can blog about anyway )so here's a piece to keep the blog on a "writing" theme....
View ArticleKeep On Talking and Taking the Prescribed Medication ...
I had barely written the opening line to a new blog post, way back at the beginning of November with appropriate links to past posts on a similar subject - "Time for a post to prove to myself that I...
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