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Poor weather, a learning day for me and my diet

I had a poor night last night and spent time dozing on the sofa and finding the least bad film to watch on TV. Interestingly, even if I have just one hour's sleep even if it is in the early morning, I rise fresh and ready to go. I'm very seldom have seven hours continual sleep if only because I have to visit the loo perhaps once perhaps twice each night. I noticed that if I drink alcohol in the...

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We could learn a thing or two from bees.

I pass on this story from Facebook Middle Aged Club  ·  Follow odSperntsocuh1Pt  9860cJ02tau 9htm385ct294mgaMfy0:l88f5u2u3   ·  My dad has bees.Today I went to his house and he showed me all of the honey he had gotten from the hives. He took the lid off of a 5 gallon bucket full of honey and on top of the honey there were 3 little bees, struggling. They were covered in sticky honey and drowning....

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Images of London – Day Seven – home run

Up at 7:30 after a restless night most of which was spent watching TV. I am truly shocked at the firm Horizon that used faulty software with their post office account. This resulted in hundreds of post office managers being falsely accused of stealing money. This has been going on for years now and the UK Post Office (chairman or on £800,000 a year) do not want to move this forward or give it...

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Images of London – Day six – Richmond

Richmond London has a good transport system because it has to, such are the numbers of people that need to move around. There are many lesser known lateral lines especially railways that are not obvious to the casual visitor. One of them is the line between Clapham Junction and Richmond. The neophite would go to Victoria or Waterloo and take a train but if you look closer there is a direct train...

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Images of London – Day Five – a visit to Bromley

Bromley, Kent This will be a day traveling  by bus since our destination is also in the south east of London. The weather was not particularly good so we took our umbrella and waterproof top just to make sure.  It became too windy to use the umbrella without doing a Mary Poppins. The Interchange between buses and trams is three or four stops away from the bus stop right out side the end of our...

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Images of London – Day Four – Kings Cross and Brick Lane

Kings Cross area To destination via Victoria then the subway. There are a lot of high tech HQ's plus trendy shops in what was previously rail sidings and gas storage area and we wandered around. We were already getting a little bit tired but there was so much to see. Below is an example of good exterior design. Here are more images of the area adjacent to Kings Cross Station and Kings Hall We...

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