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I ask myself, is this a New Year's resolution that will bite the dust after a couple of weeks but I really do need to clear out and get rid of my stuff.   In the illustration above I have laid out all my CDs. You don't even want to see the number of DVDs I have. The point is that most of them have been laying around for ages and I have not played them. I asked myself what is the point of...

I very seldom copy and paste something which I believe but Earnest Hemingway has got it so spot on it says everything I want to say and more. This comprises part of my theme for 2025 of which I will write about more in the coming days When people talk listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room...

I've just come back from staying with my sister in Croydon and in contrast to my last visits which you can read about we stayed at home and only went out for one day. This was partly because Francoise was not able to walk very far due to her twisted knee so we made the best of things and actually it was completely right for me because I could rest from all my labours including writing this...

Conclusion - not much 'happened'  but what events did in fact transpire ruled  the day. ( Trans pire this word had an early sense of "emit as vapor through the surface"—from trans-, "through," and spirare, "breathe." My exemplar Samuel Pepys made a record of his daily activity without a care in the world as to who would actually read it because in those days were means of production we're very...

(Written prior to my trip to London) I have visited the problem of loneliness quite a few times since I started writing in 2016 you may find the articles referred to by typing in the search key 'loneliness' or 'lonely'.  As I changed and develop I see things from a new point of view or should I say I revised point of view so here are my latest thoughts on the matter:  Before that you might like...

I am finally learning to respond to inspiration, or is it the normal working of a creative mind, that my projected meeting in January forming a local writer and journal / diary group is important and should come about. By 'local' I mean Paulton, Midsomer Norton, and Radstock. I received the idea today, Sunday morning, 22nd December 2024,  whilst listening to Radio 3 which has a blessed amount of...