#HeadlineTherapy Developer urged to sell protected ancient woodland

Thanks to Gem O’Reilly and Amy Clarke and BBC News Online for the Headline.

Gorne Wood is listed as protected Metropolitan Open Land containing 500 year old trees and endangered species.

AA Homes who currently own the land and have no planning permission to build houses on it thus the value of the land is not the Β£3million that they are asking but probably closer to the Β£60 ,000 that the local people have offered to take it off their hands and regain the space for them to enjoy which they have been unable to do for the last 25 years as various owners have sealed it off and let it go to waste.( probably helping the endangered species thrive).

I hope common sense prevails, London needs it’s green spaces whether or not Big Government tries to classify them as grey spaces, giving unscrupulous developers the opportunity to sell off the land with the promise of Housebuilding Profits.

It’s London today and the rest of the Country tomorrow, unscrupulous developers are everywhere, we are just not looking at our existing housing stock, it’s just build, build build and once it’s gone it’s gone. The infrastructure, the pollution and the decimation of nature is a long lasting legacy .

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Jump around the Room and then go make a cup of Tea

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You get some great, amazingly fantastic news. What’s the first thing you do?

I would jump around the room and then go make a cup of Tea and began to analyse whether the news was really that fantastic.

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#Israel-Palestine head of Human Rights Watch quits over ‘blocked’ report

Thanks to Mohamed Hassan and Al Jazeera News

It seems like the World has gone crazy when a Human Rights Director has to resign from his position of 10 years due to a report that details human rights abuses in Palestine. Seems someone has got very sensitive about saying the Palestinians have a right to return to the areas that they were forced to leave.

What happened to the Human Right to Live and let Live? I think some of these Human Rights people spend too much time in Committee meetings.

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Sky Diving

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Are there any activities or hobbies you’ve outgrown or lost interest in over time?

One day a long time ago , I saw an article about Sky Diving, and I seriously thought , why not? Then more seriously I thought, what a way to go and decided against it.

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#HeadlineTherapy Four in court for’ mis-selling salmon to Aldi.’

Thanks to Seb Cheer of BBC News Online for the Headline

Salmon is expensive and it doesn’t go on trees, you can buy it from any supermarket and it usually says the Country of Origin, although sometimes it says of EU Origin, or it is packed in the UK and to be truthful North Atlantic Prawns could be from the Bering Sea and the Trawler had widened it’s trawl area to ensure a successful catch. They might be artic prawns because really without googling would you have known where the Bering see is? You do?Well clever ol’ you!

I was once in Waitrose and someone asked where the Bering sea was , I’m sure the chap said , oh yes they’re from North of the North Atlantic. Anyway I bet Artic prawns are juicier.

However if you say it’s Scottish then it better be” “Scottish”, definitely not Norwegian as the men who represented themselves as “Purveyors” of Scottish Salmon got into trouble with the Law and their main customer Aldi stopped using them and they went bankrupt and still have to appear in court. Hence the Headline News.

I don’t buy salmon, well maybe tinned salmon at Christmas ( heaven knows where that comes from), but I love those crunch sock-eye bones that almost melt in your mouth , a full on calcium crunch capable of stopping osteoperosis in it’s tracks. The bone crunching makes me feel like I’m Queen of the Jungle and once you’ve mixed it in a bowl with mayonnaise and plenty of black pepper even if there was the odd bit of sea lice in it you wouldn’t notice. Extra protein.

In truth it’s really Salmon farms that bother me, the pictures of sea lice on the farmed Salmon’s gills and the fact that they can’t swim half way around the World like a proper Salmon just puts me off. So although I buy a lot of fresh fruit and veg from Aldi( great if you use it up quickly ), I have never bought their cuts of fresh salmon , largely because of the pictures of sea lice. So smugly I can look at the other shoppers and think.

“Not me(we’ll forget about the tinned salmon)” and smile at them as I think to myself “Hhhmmn it might be from Norway. Have you seen those internet pictures.”

Still once this Headline spreads I bet the “Scottish Salmon” sales in Aldi dive, and my harmless thoughts about Sea Lice will pale into insignificance as people will have made their own minds up. The damage is done.

A Happy Salmon

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Humbug

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What’s your favorite candy?

Any opportunity to celebrate Humbug(again) is to be grasped with open arms. So a big hug to Humbug(s)

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#HeadlineTherapy Popular canned drink to be discontinued after 80 years.

Thanks to Brittany Miller of the Independent Bulletin Online.

A brand of frozen fruit juice ” Minute Maid ” which was first introduced in 1946 is being discontinued, consumers will no longer be able to purchase it as Coca- Cola, the owner now of “Minute Maid”, has decided due to declining sales and competition from other drink products that they will stop producing it.

I’m sad to see that name Coca-Cola, as it seems to be a pattern with them to close down businesses that consumers are fond of. In the UK , there was a chain of Coffee Shops called Costa Coffee, and they used to be very good. Now due to lack of investment and poor management since Coca-Cola took them over in 2019 they certainly don’t seem as popular and of good quality as they used to be. I suspect they will go the same way as “Minute Maid”. It’s just another erosion of choice.

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Oh Heavens!

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Do you need a break? From what?

When I’m stuck with a prompt, I like to refer to a definition and a break can mean so many things.

So I’ll go with one of the verb meanings.

“separate or cause to separate into pieces as a result of a blow , shock or strain.”

I guess the answer is no I don’t need that. Sounds like it would hurt.

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#HeadlineTherapy Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi on hunger strike in detention in Iran, foundation says

Thanks to CNN World News and Jomana Karadsheh and Nadeen Ebrahim for the Headline

I just find it extremely frustrating that Big Government’s like Iran feel the need to imprison people who speak out against them.

Narges Mohammadi represents freedom of speech and the human rights of people all over the World. She is one clear voice and now she feels her only option is to starve herself to death because it is her only option to be heard.

I worry that the conditions that she and other political prisoners are being detained in are appalling, does she feel now she has no option as she is being so badly treated?

Big Government is a bullying Government.

A viscious bully who cannot stand any criticism or anyone having a different thought or opinion from them. By their very nature they cannot rationalise their standpoint so they have to shut down anyone who disagrees .

They are authoritarian but weak minded, in this case hiding behind religious doctrine which over many centuries and it seems today has been used by bullies to subjugate others who wish to live their lives in Peace and Harmony.

I wish Narges Mohammadi well and hope that she is allowed to live and thrive, it is I fear a forlorn hope.

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Same as Last Year ,Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s Internet

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The most important invention in your lifetime is…

Yes, I remember this prompt from last year and for me the answer will always be Sir Tim Berners- Lee who invented what we now know today as the Internet .He has continued to promote his original thought ,the Internet’s role is to improve communication of ideas.

Unfortunately , it also enabled the worse aspects of the human psyche to have access to an audience. This has had some tragic consequences and the Law has intervened in trying to control the Dantes Inferno of content. The lesson is perhaps that it is uncontrollable and that every individual has a responsibility to look and learn and be tolerant and respect each other. Only we can do that , outside forces cannot.

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