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[tta_listen_btn] I'm going to take this opportunity to reflect on the many conferences I have attended and what I have actually got out of them. If it is a specialist subject that is dear to your heart, you will be going from famine to feast. Instead of too few people to talk with, you have too many. You hear interesting conversations when you pass a group of people and could butt in without...

[tta_listen_btn] Today I feel like having a rest, probably because for the next five days I will be very busy in ways that you will find out in due course. When I was young or should I say particularly when I was young, Sunday was a day of rest. However, as the son of a vicar, Sunday was far from restful. My dad officiated over eight o'clock communion and sometimes even seven o'clock communion,...

Further experiments with bread Believe it or not my day started at about 2:45 a.m. When I could not sleep anymore having gone to bed at the comparatively early hour of 11 pm, I arose. For some reason I seem incapable of making a decent loaf of bread  on recent occasions.  Mostly, it does not rise and is very soggy inside So being full of beans and having nothing better to do  I decided to make...

Prelude -  I love this headline and the feisty nun, 'Way to go!' Video: Nun tackles male climate extremist trying to disrupt Catholic religious center construction in France: 'The Giants need to draft her' What is a Legal Trust? A trust is a legal arrangement for managing assets. There are different types of trusts and they are taxed differently. In a trust, assets are held and managed by one...

Gardening Job Physically I do not have much energy to write my normal 1500 words though you never know what is going to happen when I get going.   The day started bright if a little cold and we went to do a job for a lady called Marge who lost her husband 20 years ago and was trying to prune a bush and a tree at the end of the garden. She was a friendly lady who like most people we work for was...

The more the English languages degrades and I am referring to use in the media, social media and TV, the more determined I am to respect it and take it seriously or to keep the English language alive. Today’s idea was sparked by my giving the Thumps Up to the waitress in Wetherspoons where I had my increasing expensive Freedom Breakfast with coffee.  The current price is £6.69. Who knows what it...