Month: December 2017

New year resolutions and swimming at -0.7 deg C

I have just finished watching a film of a man, Lewis Pugh,  who has dedicated his life to drawing attention to global warming, and in pursuit of this he swims in the Arctic at temperatures lower than anyone else would dare to do. I have just witnessed him swim 1 km with a sea temperature of minus 0.7°C. He does it because he believes in it. Such actions give me motivation for keeping on trying...

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Figuring things out doesn’t have to be instant

I had the pleasure of meeting a delightful lady of 90 years of age whose husband died 10 years ago. It was in the service and they had to move every couple of years until he retired. They live in a delightful workers cottage, previously occupied by agricultural people and the house is supposed to go back to 1681. She wanted me to cut a long hedge which people have had a go at but frankly had...

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The pitfalls of lying

Over the Christmas period, I saw an excellent film on TV called "Flight" , 2012, which featured Denzel Washington. His character was a fully qualified and competent airline pilot who was unfortunately a cocaine addict and an alcoholic. On an eventful flight attended by bad weather, he rescued his passengers from almost certain death by an amazing manoeuvre. He crash landed the aircraft with only...

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Airbnb – On the receiving end. (ouch!)

We are thinking of staying in London for a few days. Other Half wants to visit a friend and we both want to visit art galleries. I do not want to entertain the stratospheric prices of most London hotels which are in the £100+ a night  bracket so I thought I'd have a go at Airbnb. I chose a fairly unfashionable area of South London to get a better price for a five night stay. I found a place that...

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The fear factor and how to avoid it

The following essay is aligned to my state of mind at this time of year to reflect on what I have done or tried to do in the past and compare it with the prioritization that I would ideally like to see in place for the so-called future.  Having said that, our soul or the eternal part of us (bear with me) is not aware of time as such because it is irrelevant. Light has no time. It is only the...

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Compulsive apologising – why do we keep on saying sorry?

The inspiration for today's theme came when I was returning from the paper shop and an older lady who was standing in a driveway started to move forward. There was no way that she would have impeded me or caused any inconvenience but she was impelled to say "sorry".  the implication of the word is that you are telling someone that you're sorry for the hurt caused even if you did not do it on...

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