Today, a day with no engagements and pretty well up to date with my admin so there is nothing to do so guess what, I decided to do - nothing. Of course the contents of this diary, recording my life as a human being, is never far away from my consciousness. I wait for something to trigger me and sure enough something always does. I'm thinking about the conditions under which decisions are made,...
First, an IQ test We have been aware for some time that our pond has a leak. I think it may have been due to the fact that roots of the water Irises have a strong desire to search for nutrition and they may have found a small crack in the rubber lining which they are exploiting. I decided to do an experiment, I let the water drain down to a stable level. It should be clear that the leak is not...
Today, up at 5:30 a.m. I decided to bake a large loaf of bread. I normally cook using 500 grams of flour but this time I decided to increase the amount by 50% and I doubled the amount of yeast. As a result, I have a loaf of bread that looks very much like a football and will probably keep us going for the best part of a week. Each day I comb about 30 offerings from all the websites and services...
Yet more 'coincidences' I must be a walking advertisement for the need to follow your intuition because unusually I decided to go to breakfast early at Wetherspoons. It does not start to get busy until about 9:30 on Sunday so I put in my order which most people are trained to give with the utmost brevity. Table 37, freedom breakfast, hot drink. That's all you have to say. I went to the machine...
I always follow my impulses when deciding to do something out of the ordinary because it never gets me in to trouble and I always enjoy myself. This morning I decided to go to Porkies which as locals know is a working people's café on the industrial estate, 4th Avenue, Westfield. So here you see my breakfast in all its glory served at 7:45 this morning. But my day started earlier than...
I had a chat with my friend John today and we discussed various things including the writing of diaries. Brian: It's not the point of the number of people who read it. The point is that I uttered it (this diary) and it's in my soul pattern and my aura through which I am uttering these things and thus becomes part of the general consciousness. John: You can't adjust yourself because of what...
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Inspired by Samuel Pepys’ Diary 1633-1703