Greetings everybody - I normally get my inspiration for what I'm going to write on a particular day in the morning but today, strangely, nothing came so I decided to devote myself to fiddling around in the garden, preparing the lunch, watching another excellent Richard Vobes video, wondering if my garden tools were going to make it through another year. I know I'm 80 years of age but gardening...
The delights of social media I just love nosing around social media including Facebook and picking up sayings from people. I've come across one that's very helpful which reads as follows Empathy without boundaries is self destruction. Unconditional love doesn't mean unconditional tolerance. You have got to train your boundaries to be stronger than your soft heart, and your mind to be stronger...
Having gone to bed fairly early at 10:30 p.m I rose at five o'clock and checked my previous diary entry on Bristol and decided on a whim, or was it inspiration, to write round to every meaningful friend I had saying that I had written the article and I was writing to them because I wanted to share it and also to announce that I was alive and kicking. No breakfast for me this morning because I'm...
Asking AI What to do It is all too easy these days to consult Chat GBT, co-pilot, Gemini etc and let it do your thinking for you so I have pasted the response I got from Gemini at the bottom of this post and meanwhile I have written from my heart what I have observed to be true in my life, this time around, on this planet. The implications of that statement will be more obvious to some than...
So off to the RUH have my MRI scan. Magnetic Resonance Imaging machines! Gosh, these are big beasts which require a room to themselves and can range in cost between £0.6 and £1.9 million. The construction of MRI suites can easily add another £325,000 to the total cost. For those who might be having a scan let me run through what actually happens. I’ll lay it out in # points because it’s...
Nothing ventured nothing gained I have a policy that I will try anything once. It may be that the group or situation that you've been waiting for is just round the corner but you won't know until you've given it at least in a nodding acquaintance. Keynsham is a town about 10 miles from us, not the most exciting town on the planet, but who knows what is going once you dig beneath the surface I...
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