We saw this when we went to Farringdon Farm yesterday. Sometimes I say to myself ' you can't make this up' and I would apply this in this instance. Today, a couple of small events one of which took place in Wetherspoons. A lady was having great difficulty in figuring out how to use the app to order drinks. Eventually she went to ask a young man who explained how to pay and 10 minutes later she...
Anything will grow rusty and fade away without practice and discipline and this applies to conversation with our fellow human beings as well as playing the piano or writing a bike. For some years now I have been associated with Ecademy started by Thomas and Penny Power, https://www.pennypower.co.uk/. Penny writes her ponderings every week and on this one occasion I have taken the liberty of...
One of the best measures of whether the tourist season has begun are for some unknown reason the number of Japanese tourists. We decided to take the bus instead of driving and arrived about 11 am whereupon we swiftly repaired to the newly refurbished Wetherspoons and had a hot drink . This establishment has been closed for the last month and what they have done apart from some new general...
On the occasion of my 80th birthday I have thrown a party and I want to reflect on the last 80 years but also don't want to bore people to death. I will try and give my utterances in postcard size chunks and also introduce a sense of humor where possible. I choose to speak for 2 minutes per decade so that means a 16 minute long speech and the question is can I hold people's attention for that...
I signed up for a zoom call with an organization whose name I will not mention here; the idea was to form a spiritual group to discuss aspects of the particular field. This was led by two ladies both of whom had considerable experience in the field. There was a representative from the organization in attendance. It became clear that the leading lady, the first speaker, was very keen on saying...
The history of weather manipulation 1:20:56 I'm taking a few days off this week so I leave you today with a very interesting film about something that affects us all. The USA allocate 93 million dollars per day to spray the air with a mixture of barium strontium and aluminium. Why you may ask? Do they think the sun is making a mistake in shining? Has Mother Nature suddenly lost control. This...
1,606,759 words across 1,732 articles
Inspired by Samuel Pepys’ Diary 1633-1703
