What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?
What is the difference between paid for advice and free advice and which one is best?
We are a world where advice through multiple channels is available from what seasonal plants to grow in your garden,to how to build a safe submarine,or indeed who to vote for.
Advice can be listened to or ignored, we have a choice ;I hope.Or are the advice algorithms eliminating that choice?
Let’s face it every loud mouthed nincompoop wants you to listen to them.
So ,with the current situation,I still go back to the best advice I was ever given which has come in handy multiple times throughout my life and that was to memorise my N.I. number.
I can really recommend bananas for energy.An amazingly well packaged fruit,with a delicious sweetness when ripe and a great capacity for storage through transportation from far off places,the closest to us being the Canary Islands just off the coast of Spain.
Ahhh…did you mean music?There are too many so I will plump for this album put together by him indoors containing wonderful photos of his trip to Africa.
Lion
Which includes the big Five and lots of beautiful scenic pictures.
Modern obsession is not with Music but with those that create it.We are fans,we want to know what influences lead to the creation of such wonderful pieces.The love,the trauma and the inspiration.
Why did Bill Hailey want to Rock around The Clock and why did the Eagles take it anything but easy.
Memorabilia and Biography are complete industries in themselves,for all sorts of musical artists from Chopin to Taylor Swift
However,the Music, the notes,the best,the arrangement is what it is all about and a mathematical analysis and indeed copyright law will tell you that there is a finite resource of music.There are only so many notes and beats.
However,if we just look at the music,the joining together of notes, we find it everywhere, bird song, a whistling kettle,a busker playing in the street, choirs singing in Church and Bell Ringers at a Wedding.
My favourite songs on the radio, and on my various listening devices I use ,can reduce my overthinking and boredom,along with the opportunity to move with a beat while prancing around the house performing the role of a domestic goddess.Thatbis invaluable to me.
Increasingly ,artists see performing live as being an integral and lucrative part of their repertoire.In truth, I love recordings,but if the artist on the day can match or better the quality of the recording,then that is a wonderful achievement and to be part of a cohesive group enjoying it is even better.
So life without music,,nor indeed musicians,be they human or from natural phenomenon would I think be impossible The birds will still tweet,no matter what
I do my best to Celebrate them all but there are so many! Therefore I Celebrate by remembering them and to do that I have to list them….here is the list
Ramadan which is the 9th Month of the Islamic Lunar calendar
Ash Wednesday which is the first day of Lent which is 4 weeks before Easter.
Eid Al-Fatr, commemorates the end of Ramadan
Bodhi Day 8th December,celebrated by Budhists
Christmas Day. 25th December celebrated by Christians.
Nowruz, the Iranian New Year,based on the Northern Spring Equinox,usually between the 19th and 22nd of March on the Gregorian Calendar.
…..actually there are too many to list…interesting fact though Hinduism and Catholicism have the most holidays as practically every day of the year has some special significance and is to be celebrated
That’s not counting my statutory holiday that is part of my holiday entitlement at work.So all in all there’s something to celebrate every day!
Write about your most epic baking or cooking fail.
My epic bake fail happened as we were packing last May to go to Cornwall on a caravanning holiday.
I’d got up early to make some muffins so we could have some to eat on the journey and some to eat for the first few days of our holiday.
I made them with any ingredients that might have gone off while we were away ,so like the good little recycler I am,when I’d finished the cupboards and fridge were bare.
The cakes after coming out of the oven cooled nicely on their wire tray and I packed them in a large pink tupperware box ready to put in the car.
Then disaster struck, everything was packed except the cakes.They stayed on the kitchen table for the whole of the two weeks we were away.
It was torture on the journey down knowing the cakes were not with us,as I do make nice cakes. Looking at the selection in the service station made me even more unhappy as they were full of sugar and additives.
Then there wasn’t that welcoming bun with a cup of tea when we set up the caravan,all in all it was a crushing reminder of my forgetfulness.
When we got back ,the buns were just developing mould and sadly I tipped the whole beautiful box into the food recycling.
I was so heartbroken,at first I said never again,but after having been exposed to service station food,I think I have to be brave and try again.
Well if I was any good at this I could cross reference Prof or Mr Philos WordPress Account which is well worth a gander and a digest,but dear readers I’m sure you can find him for yourselves.
Philo has laid a soft velvet glove on the ground in front of me …(As opposed to throwing down a heavy leather gauntlet which could cause someone an injury …he is after all a very thoughtful soul)
Reverse Bucket List
1)Sitting through many job interviews and enjoying my successes and rationalizing my failures.If it’s right for you then it was meant to be.Thankfully, I’ve earned enough in the jobs I did get to keep my head above water and I feel that is a success.
2)Learning to swim,I was probably ten when with a bunch of other school children I was taught to swim.It did not come naturally to me. However,I fooled the teacher just by staying afloat.So I was not put in the remedial group in the shallow end.I never mastered any strokes and was more of a dirigible with four limbs then a dolphin.I envied the girl who could do the breast stroke faultlessly,she did swim like a dolphin.
3)Being good with animals,I want to understand animals( both wild and domestic) and their point of view and I have had some very good interactions This is a very exciting achievement and one I am extremely satisfied with myself about .
4)Keeping up with washing dishes,this is very rewarding and took a bit of trial and error and time to master I could do with a more consistent effort,but I would say,I feel in control of this area of my life.
Four is my lucky number ,so I’ll stop there.
Thank you Philo for your prompt, may you sleep well and loads of genuine followers find your link.
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