I can only repeat my plea for the organizer and the speaker to have a dress rehearsal beforehand. In today's case the speaker had not prepared her slides properly and they were seen in a format which should have been the slideshow format i.e. full screen but somehow they managed to only fill a quarter of my screen so I could not read the words. When you are online and on air it is not acceptable...
Are virtual meetings more useful than face-to-face meetings? The prompt to this question was a request for a customer for whom I am doing a gardening job to come round and discuss the next development. I wrote to him saying that I have a photographic memory and would be very happy if he were to stand at a vantage point halfway down the steps and we can talk through the garden situation without...
OK that is a giveaway in that I admit I am a biological male. I can tell that because of my external appendages. If in doubt, look south. Did anyone try this on the 'male' boxer who presented herself at the Paris Olympics? I'm sure the BBC would beg to differ with me because they are convinced there are 156 different sexes but I'm one of these old fashioned types that say God created male and...
Brian: About the method of reading books especially serious stuff I will tell you what happens. I read a couple of pages and I can get so excited by an idea that I have to stop reading and pace around for half an hour and I just wondered what your experience was a reading stuff. Friend: It depends of what it is. If it's stuff I've done and really know I could only read for a few minutes and...
As some of you know I have until recently been a member of an evangelical congregation by the name of the Vineyard Church. Internal politics shattered the framework of the local group structure and as a result people have been forced to look elsewhere for somewhere to worship. A member of the congregation offered support "If I may be bold, I would like to help you Identify what you lack....
This is going to be one of those days where without any previous intention this is going to be a full diary. Today is the celebration of Samhein otherwise known as Halloween and we set off early to go to Glastonbury to enjoy the wonderful weather, the warmth, the sun, and the amazing people who turn up on these occasions. However, before that, I should mention that I wrote a preparatory paper in...
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