Month: January 2023

The ugly side of food poisoning

It must have been something I ate.  Yes, I bought a pie from the local butchers. I assumed it was fresh but results showed otherwise.  Within hours I started getting pain in my lower stomach.  It was a new type of sharp pain. From time to time I got electric shocks between my legs. It was a few more hours before I realized I had good old fashioned diarrhea. Frequent visit to the loo without much...

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A sunny day (for a change) and meeting strangers

If you believe in quantum entanglement then we are all one or as St Paul said in his letter to the Ephesians. The full verse is “Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak the truth, each to his neighbour, for we are members one of another” (Eph 4:25).   Pope Francis had quite a lot to say on this. I do not necessarily think about this every day but I act on it every day. When I am out and about I...

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The perfect interview – does it exist?

How many thousands of interviews have I listened to and watched over the last .... years. Some are riveting, others turn me off at a rate of knots. Folks PLEASE do some research beforehand so your interviewee can have confidence in you.  Bad manners - most interviewers cannot resist interposing their own views, interrupting the speaker and not listening. The most irritating are those who try to...

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