A promised rest
English: Rowing Olympic Games (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Last week was a busy time for me so by the time Friday arrived I was well and truly ‘wacked’ as they say. I promised myself a weekend of rest and...
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Working life (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I often think about my life and my achievements and wonder what my life would have been like had I chosen a different career. I have been in the same business or...
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On Saturday I had plans. I was to get up early, which I did incidentally, and then I was to have a session on my treadmill. After this a trip to ‘Halfords‘ to buy myself a bicycle. Before my...
View ArticleIt’s hard doing nothing
I woke up rather late on Sunday morning which is great if I have nothing planned for the day. I can pretty much do what I please these days but I get easily bored if I’ve nothing to do. I am the kind...
View ArticleCan I sing? I wouldn’t say so, not now but….
youtube (Photo credit: Sean MacEntee) It’s only my opinion of course but I do not rate myself as a singer. Once I could sing and once I was in a choir but time and circumstances have taken control of...
View ArticleNo more work!
January Not strictly true. It is no more work for me until after the first week in January. I cancelled my advertisement for a few weeks. The current week (for the advert) which starts today, the...
View ArticleWhen it becomes an obsession
Astronomy For Beginners (Photo credit: AndyRobertsPhotos) For most of my life I have had an avid interest in Astronomy and in my early years it occupied most of my time, even into my late teens. Whilst...
View ArticleFour years
It was four years ago when I started this blog or 1674 posts ago (now 1675)! To be honest I didn’t think I was going to keep it up but here I am. I guess it was a novelty which just grew and became an...
View ArticleThings are looking up
A home-made 150mm Newtonian telescope on an altazimuthal mount This is a great time of year for astronomy, stargazing and such because of the still winter air and long nights, not that I have been...
View ArticleNo interest but I’m happy?
Happy with what you have to be happy with How can it be that I am happy and yet feel so bored I could jump off a cliff? Regular readers of this blog, that is those who have been following for a couple...
View ArticleIt’s not for me they say
A picture of Pisgah Baptist Church in Four Oaks, North Carolina, USA. There are many things in this life that hold no interest for me and this is the same for everyone on the planet. We can’t all like...
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Neural Connections In the Human Brain I am amazed at the progress we have seen in computers and what they have become. They are used in all areas of our lives from control and monitoring to medicine...
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Victor Fung and Anna Mikhed dancing a ballroom tango. The couple, dancing for the USA, came third in the World Professional Standard Championship 2009. Photo taken in 2006 by Porfirio Landeros, Kwixite...
View ArticleI’m getting used to it.
The Life and age of woman, stages of woman’s life from the cradle to the grave. New York : James Baillie, c1848. I remember very well the day I became a teenager and the day I became an adult as it was...
View ArticleIt doesn’t seem to matter
Whether I have my advert in the paper or not seems not to make any difference lately for even though it hasn’t been in the paper for two weeks I have had enough work to make it worthwhile. On Tuesday I...
View ArticleI’m crazy
It Doesn’t Matter (Wyclef Jean song) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I’m crazy so people tell me but what do they know? I actually like work! Why is that? It is all about being occupied, about not wanting...
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