Today Christmas Day is the 8th anniversary of the passing of George Michael who died on Christmas day 2016. I have been majorly influenced by pop singers and icons. I remember Tommy Steele, Bill Haley and the Comets, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Dusty Springfield, Amy Whitehouse, Diana Ross, Dolly Parton, Kate Bush, Prince, Shirley Bassey, Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Cher,...
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...
I love words :-)) and I was prompted to define a word used at a coffee morning I have just attended. Whilst our beautiful England language lasts (though I would not give it more than a couple of generations) let us enjoy the subtleties. I find the most economical way of understanding a word is looking at its etymology. So, down to business.... Efficient - what dos it mean? This word first...
This was from someone who had seen one of my videos and wanted to know more. We spoke briefly on the phone and I asked for his email. I do not know him. Oh that all humans could emulate this tone and caliber of response. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I have received such a heartfelt and truly transparent communication from another human being. This shows me that the...
Megabus have recently decided to pull out of most route and for a couple of weeks there was a big blank where journeys should have been. Yesterday I got announcement that we have created a brand new website. Whoopee. To me part of it looks rather rushed but I think it will settle. The developers probably had a gun to their head to get things done quickly. Hey there!!!!! It's official. Our brand...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM8xJ04j1qI I've been recommended a book by Federico Fagan called Irreducible which is about consciousness, life, computers and human nature. It is a technical and scientific work and I noticed that there are many words that although I am familiar with I have not examined them in as much depth as I could have done, so reading this book is a chance to do this ....
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