If you find my working habits a bit strange, bear with me. I take the view that if I wake up, I have had my dose of sleep . If I have not had enouth shut-eye then I make up for it during the day with power napping. (is this another American import?). When I feel like getting up with a mission I do so, as I have done this Sunday morning, at 6:30 a.m. to write some emails. If a letter is in my...
Again, watching Al Jazeera early in the morning. It is difficult to see someone being interviewed who has lost 21 members of his family. Merely the illness of one of the people I regard as friends causes me disturbance never mind their death, expected or sudden. If my entire family was wiped out at one go I think I would go into a state of shock. I saw a journalist say that he had lost his...
I never know when I am going to be fired up to write something and today was no exception. We have a localized group from social media called NextDoor.co.uk. It's content is 90% matters of local interest. People are very generous with their time and their contributions and it is a good site to belong to. My eye was caught by the article below: I have a leaky shed, it is only 6x8ft , some guys...
What is it to be 'jolly?' So what does the word 'jolly' mean? Of a person, is to do with being happy, and up beat. There are other words for people who tell jokes, raconteurs, or serenely happy people. A place can look Jolly. I love your new room decorations It makes the area look really Jolly. You can have an object of attraction so you can wear a jolly nice scarf. It can also be used as an...
This post is subject to revision. When it has been revised this notice will disappear. - Ed. How do we learn? How do we learn? I'm not talking so much about adult book learning but how we instinctively learn and thus guide ourselves through life. Children learn mainly by imitation and using their parents as a role model for behavior, and how to relate. Later, we learn in school. You can look at...
Coffee morning in our local church This was one of those days when we had no obligatory commitments, so first of all off to coffee at All Saints Church in Paulton. A couple were complaining that their car had left them down due to what the RAC man described as wet belt. It's started to a halt on a hill and they had to get help. This was a Citroen that had done only 40,000 miles. Their RAC chap...
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