I normally flip through the news first thing and today an article by Dr Mercola, about the difficulty in focusing and concentrating is a subject that I can relate to this 100%. Read this brief article below Feeling distracted? You’re not alone. A new study shows the average attention span has dropped to just 47 seconds, down from 2.5 minutes in 2004. Constant phone notifications and nonstop...
Month: May 2025
Is gardening good for our health?
Introduction The benefits of gardening - I was motivated to write this because American Dr Robert Malone wrote about his professional political work but also about his garden, saying how important it was for his mental health. My testimony I have gardened as long as I can remember. From the Age of 7 until the age of 16 I lived at the vicarage adjacent to St Andrews Church, Guildersfield Road,...
Bristol to London for £2.99 vs. a Latte @ £3.50 ……off we go again
Off to London to celebrate a friend's birthday. I need a regular 'fix' of London and London life styles and culture though I no longer wish to live there. With regard to writing in general, a diary is meant to be a recollection of what I have done but it's a little bit more than a Dear Diary.... I've tried to make it interesting and relevant by imagining the sort of advice I would give people...
First Class science fiction – Area 51 + local political meeting
I do not know it is true, false, or partly true but it is a brilliant piece of imaginative writing and it transfixed me this morning for over an hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rclRtlI3CHI Local Public meeting This evening we went along to an open evening run by a counselor Shaun Hughes, one of the unpaid people who run an aspect of the services provided in Midsomer Norton. The meeting was...
Before you do anything else, watch this video – 10 year old prodigy
A crazy Gemini Day as it happens So this is going to be one of those days when us Geminis leap around in various directions at once. Geminis cannot stand boredom. We are cheap to maintain as we are a 24/7 entertainment machine. We do not stop. We have a Peter Pan quality. Age is a number. We are sometimes difficult to live with. Here is a blow by bow account of some of today's features...
Wedmore Festival in full splendor + an account of a heart attack + Tuckers Grave Inn
Scroll down for Wedmore Festival account Today was quite a rare day when I had to get up early to arrive at the Christian men's breakfast in St John's, Frome for 8 am. What a lovely time of day to drive. Little traffic, the rising sun, clear blue sky. There were only a dozen of us at the meeting but that was enough for comradeship and sharing. It started off in quite a comical fashion because...
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