Scroll down for The Grinch opinion if you are not interested in art. This was the day ordained to go around Bath Christmas Market before it closes next Sunday. By coincidence, though I never believe in such things, it was necessary for me to have an appointment for an intermittent toothache. We set off bright and early for my 10.50 appointment with my dentist who is also my role model in matters...
My goodness look how our language is derived. Here are a few sentences from the start of a speech on 'common Law' that jumped into my IN box. Whether or not it is true, partly true, or fantasy it makes me think of word origins. I've just been sent a copy of this video by the Gary Fraughen entitled 'Common Law.' Which is so refreshing to hear someone who walks their talk, who doesn't have a...
I had the privilege this evening of facilitating a meeting by zoom that was the closest to becoming a role model for social and cultural meetings including committee meetings This was about dowsing and was a spin off from a rather inappropriate group organised by the British Society of Dowsers a few months ago. I have been a member of the BSD on and off for ages and have done dowsing since I...
This is an unlikely image to start today's ball rolling. Us versus the elements, there is no contest. I contemplate the puny powers of humankind compared with the might of nature. At the current time with order versus chaos there appears to be no contest. 07:30 I've just had my morning coffee whilst watching news on TV to hear that UK Prime Minister Keith Starmer is returning from his 14th visit...
I agreed to give a counseling session to one of my long-standing clients on a Sunday morning. I know him well enough that he would only ask for such a thing if he wasn't in extreme difficulty and so it was. He talked a lot about his work situation and the fact that his boss criticized him in front of a group on a remote call. There was something else that he needed to talk to me about and...
You find out the strength of the wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down . C.S. Lewis. We experienced last night and this morning one of the biggest batterings of wind we have had this year. We felt its force though we are protected by being in a valley. From about three o'clock in the morning when a red warning was issued to about 11 o'clock in the morning the elements huffed and...
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