August 25 2025 By coincidence I also came across this video, relevant to the morning's mood. A humorous song entitled 'I Can't Wait for the apocalypse' Put the two together and you have the catalyst for what follows: We have descended a long way from the supposed idyllic existence in the Garden of Eden, which, although it happened a long time ago, has considerable power of symbolism. When you...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7z_8Sh-vbg We decided to have a real holiday today, so we got up late and had no obligations, goals, or objectives. We ended up having lunch at three o'clock in the afternoon and then heading off to water the plants at the designated locations in the evening I've just been watching a very interesting video about a chap hitchhiking across China, not knowing a word...
If you dont know anything about this village, it is on the A37 about 8 miles south west of Bath in Somerset. High Littleton and Hallatrow, Somerset, have Saxon origins. High Littleton, recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Liteltone (“little enclosure”), was an agricultural village of arable farming, dairy, and sheep, within the hundred of Chewton. From the 17th century, coal mining...
Big consequences of 'small' accidents This evening I was pacing around in the A&E at Bath RUH waiting for Françoise to return from having a treatment by the doctor after having been called in for an x-ray. I had to wait quite a considerable time, and I realized that she was probably going to come out with a bandage of some sort. Thank goodness it was not a plaster of Paris. There were 20 or...
Gosh this is heavy material David Rogers Webb - The Great Taking (2024). Highly technical from the financial point of view. I got to this via Mike Yeadon. FINAL WARNING: Dr Mike Yeadon Interview (4K) | Oracle Films. They are both over one hour and not easy watching, and I confidently predict that less than 1 in 10 of my readers will even click on it. I am doing my duty of care to myself and my...
I have absolutely nothing in my diary for the rest of this week at least until Saturday. I love it. Who knows what will turn up. Sure enough something did. I noticed by chance that when standing in my back garden I appeared twice in reflections so I thought I might as well make a work of art out of it and reproduced myself a third time by opening the right hand window. It reminds me of Andy...
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