Day: 29 April 2017

The day began like any other day

We had spent a quiet day together doing the garden and spending some time preparing lunch. Little did I know what was going to hit me in terms of learning experience. About 2:30 in the afternoon I switched on the TV. I think we were having a late lunch. There followed a sequence of events that focused me exactly where I needed to be both in the attitude to myself and to others with a certain...

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How can any day be boring? … ladies – how to escape from men

Even Samuel Pepys, the great diarist of the 17th century, is capable of having a bad day. He wrote on Thursday, 28 April 1664 ... " quite tired with business, and without joy in myself otherwise then I am by God's grace enabled to go through it and one day, hope to have benefit by it" I may be fortunate, but I find that as soon as I get up I'm "full of beans" as the English say. Moving from the...

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