December 27, 2025 · 4:52 am

#HeadlineTherapy All the parts of England facing snow for 12 hours-and it will be 2 inches deep.

Thanks to James Rodger Content Editor at Birmingham Live for the Headline

Apologies to those of you in the World who have serious snow. As you can see by the headline, we in this part of the United Kingdom are worried at the threat of 2 inches.

This is genuine concern as there may well be a shortage of grit, the grit delivery lorries may be in for a service or in truth the drivers may have been made redundant having refused to agree to changes in their employment contracts which the local Councils have imposed in order to save money from already restricted budgets. There are always good reasons why things don’t happen.

So when you are stuck on the Motorway and your cell phone signal has stopped due to the cold weather be grateful that you were warned about this situation and you were told to travel only if your journey is necessary. Was it necessary? Do people just randomly hop in their cars and go somewhere without reason. Are they prone to snow blindness or just plain stubborn?

The article was a bit naughty really on two fronts. I think it was written to make me read the adverts and generate revenue and also the weather maps the journalist refers to say the worst snow will be in Ross and Cromarty which is in Scotland not England which might have ten inches of snow. So a mere two inches seems pretty miserly.

In truth there is no guarantee this snow will happen, I think actually it’s just something to write home about. Still “Snow Day” isn’t until the beginning of January when everyone will be going back to work after their holidays. Maybe they just want to depress us even further with the thought of having to scrape the outside of the car ( for those of you without heated windscreens) or topping up the windscreen wash in the freezing cold. Never mind having to fit winter tyres or snow chains as those in Serious Snow Countries do.

Oh well we shall have to wait and see.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

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December 27, 2025 · 4:16 am

There is no Perfect Space

You get to build your perfect space for reading and writing. What’s it like?

Reality is there is no perfect space, there are always irritants. The light is wrong, the boiler blew up , your perfect room has no heating. The red marker has exploded all over your desk and stained your favourite napkin which you use to wipe your lips after slurping your home made soup for lunch. Today you forgot to defrost the soup so not only is your bright white napkin covered in bright red blobs , but you have no lunch.

The battery on your lap top is dying, you have unpaid bills and your cat has just decided to poo in the corner as you forgot to clean out the litter tray downstairs.

The cleaner left in disgust three weeks ago and the windows are beginning to rattle as the frames are rotting due to condensation and the force 10 gale outside.

Your ideal writing space that once was, is desolation, however, there is one thing that will never change, you have a notebook and you are jotting down ideas. Now that is perfection.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

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December 26, 2025 · 10:25 am

#HeadlineTherapy This 56-year conflict still pauses for Christmas.

Thanks to Nick Alipour, news reporter for Sky News Online, for the Headline.

My initial thought was I wonder where that is and I was surprised to read it was the Philippines. Yes a rarely reported fight between Maoist Insurgents and the Phillipino Government has been going on for 56 years with the numbered dead being 60000 as a result of the conflict.

Each Christmas Day during those 56 years they have respected the locals need for a day of Peace and have had a ceasefire. One year a period of four days was proposed, however, there seems to be a theory that either side can use the ” Christmas Peace” for propaganda purposes, the people on the ground whose daily lives are affected are by the conflict are so desperate to have peace that the protaganists use the “Christmas Truce ” to persuade the people that they “care” about them.

Once Christmas is over, however, it’s back to the fight for their beliefs and the conviction that they know what is best for the population and to fight is necessary.

The article explains that there are more “conflicts” going on in the World than anytime since World War Two. It’s a sad fact and I don’t need to tell you which one’s grab the Headlines. The Peace Research Institute in Oslo has identified 61 conflicts that were active in 2024 so most don’t reach the eye of the general public .

The pain and suffering for the populace in those conflicts, not covered by the Global Media Machine, may avoid sensationalism of the suffering of the population ; but are those that are not covered , not covered because it is not in the Global Interests to do so? After all who owns the media? The old adage follow the money works well here.

A rural skirmish which enables land , oil or mineral rights to be distributed elsewhere, or picked up at a knock down price may be the real reason behind not reporting the facts. Land that would otherwise be fertile and farmed with a good water supply may be cleared of people for the sake of mining. Rural farming is inefficient and we need to progress. We need growth, more than we need the people to grow.

These may be the Global Goals of enterprises who have long lost the promise of Empire and now rely on their business partners and interests to maintain the status quo. Using Global resources to fill the coffers of their bank accounts to have financial security and have a banking industry that will offer self- perpetuating finance to those whose next project/ fight is on their to do list.

Meanwhile the people just want Peace.

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December 26, 2025 · 9:13 am

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

What is your all time favourite Automobile?

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was a novel by Ian Fleming who also wrote the “James Bond novels” made into a film starring along with the Car , the now Centenarian Dick Van Dyke.

The Car took centre stage and would have to be my favourite automobile ever. Although Herbie the VW comes close.

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December 25, 2025 · 4:55 am

#HeadlineTherapy Repairs made as “sausage” forms on bike path.

Thanks to Emily Johnson from BBC News Online for this headline.

I’m obsessed by sausages today as it’s Christmas Day here and they need to be cossetted, wrapped in bacon and cooked. So this article caught my eye. A Classic Tale of a cyclists nightmare on a badly repaired path which with recent wet weather and maybe the momentary earth movement has caused a sausage like protuberance to appear on a cycling path in Yorkshire.

The Council have a name for it. It’s been caused by “clay heave”. Well I’d like to point that cycle paths are best made out of tarmac not clay and if the repair had been done properly in the summer when the cracks were filled in then the water would not have impregnated the clay and caused it to swell.

The locals have nicknamed the giant sausages on their path, but in truth they haven’t come up with any interesting names, so I’ll pass on them.

I have every sympathy with the cyclists, lets face it they aren’t expecting a cycle path to be an obstacle course. I hope they get some fancy machine in from America and tarmac the whole thing, while maintaining a camber for water drainage. Maybe a ditch either side would help too.

Merry Christmas to Everyone who Celebrates it.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading 🙏

Not quite the image I was thinking of but this made me laugh and maybe the cyclists in Yorkshire have scary dreams like this picture.

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December 25, 2025 · 4:35 am

By just being.

How are you creative?

Everyone and all the life that is on Earth and probably the Universe is creating all the time, cells are continuously renewing , so I’m just part of that package and it’s not a bad feeling.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading. 🙏

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December 24, 2025 · 5:22 am

#HeadlineTherapy DNA Analysis Confirms Grim Tale from 800 Year Old Norse Saga

Thank you to ZME Science and Mihai Andrei for the Headline

Why should I care about what happened to a 30 year old man, who was killed in a conflict at Sverresborg Castle, Trondheim Norway, approximately 800 years ago?

The Castle after being raided was left uninhabitable , as they threw an already deceased body of a man into it’s well and covered it with stones to poison the water supply. Good ol’ King Sverre Sigurdsson was away on a winters break in Bergen , so his unfortunate Castle Dwellers were the ones who suffered.

Today the myth has been proven, they found the skeletal remains of the corpse that was thrown into the well and they can prove his age , how he died. They even know what he ate.

Initially his skeleton appeared older than it was, but because he diet was mainly seafood they realised that their results had to be adjusted to allow for the fact that carbon from the ocean appears “older”. Once corrected the man’s demise was plump in the middle of the Sverresborg Castle siege.

What a good start to the day that a suspected Myth has been proven by good old D.N.A analysis. The Genes don’t lie.

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December 24, 2025 · 4:43 am

Little Hovel

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So what are the biggest influences in my life? Are they who’s or what’s? I think they are both. They are both part of my D.N.A and also part of my experience.

But Little Hovel, is my home and it’s where I can be myself and not have intrusions or distractions that modern life thrusts upon us. Perhaps my D.N.A and my experience taught me that Little Hovel is where the heart is.

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December 23, 2025 · 8:33 am

#HeadlineTherapy Banksy gives Britain at least one new mural for Christmas

Thanks to Sky News Online for the Headline . ( think this article is AI generated, it states the facts as if the World was factual, which it is not, strange when writing about Art)

Banksy has given us a gift a Christmas Mural on an unsightly wall above some lockups in Bayswater in Central London. Lets hope there’s no asbestos in the roofs of the lock up owners as there will be a trail of people climbing up to take selfies who might cause damage to the roof , and unleash the deadly fibres on the unsuspecting user of the garage, or at the very least cause a leak.

The Mural or perhaps we should call it Graffiti is of two children lying together on the ground ,dressed in warm coats and woolly hats (perhaps homeless) , both looking up at the sky with one pointing up at the sky or perhaps at Santa’s reindeers way up above them carrying lots of presents for children more fortunate than they.

This is definitely not the Banksy Mural.

Heaven knows what Banksy wants the populus of London to think, though no doubt someone will want to make a quick buck, as these murals are worth a fortune. Still I wonder how many will say “thank you” to Banksy for his kind and relevant thoughts .

Namaste and Thank You for Reading. 🙏

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December 23, 2025 · 8:06 am

Oops I did it again

Share what you know about the year you were born.

Are you kidding, do you think I’m going to tell( or share as you so empathetically put it) with an AI prompt my year of birth so you could can add it to your ever increasing digital database. What do you think? I was born yesterday? Well I wasn’t! And no I wasn’t born in the year that the wonderful Britney Spears had her hit record dressed as a schoolgirl , so don’t try to be clever. It just seemed a good title.

Hope your algorithm explodes with misnomers.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading. 🙏

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