This is the time of year which I call famine to feast . Everywhere you look there is an open day, Arts Trail, County Fair, Village Fete, specialist interest days, and if you're not careful you will miss them. The trouble is that apart from the Mendip Times who do their best, there is nowhere that you can go to find out every function say within and 10 mile radius. Smaller organizations do not...
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The secret of productive group meetings
What is it that makes a worthwhile social meeting? Today we traveled to meet some people with whom we had been working remotely on the same topic which is about how we see the world versus how the people who are running this world would have us see things. You may be familiar with the famous quotes from The Matrix series Morpheus: This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back....
The difficulty in concentrating – a common problem? + NHS vs Private Dentists
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...
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...
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