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To travel is to broaden your horizon,

To experience new things,

You may discover a new rhisome,

And philosophise about what the day brings,

My one proviso about all of that,

And the thing that makes me question travel,

Is just who will look after my cat?

And what will happen when the plans unravel?

Today travel is a Global Phenomenon,

A balance sheet of supply and demand,

The Professor wants to visit the grave of Agamemnon,

Your cousin wants to go to Ibiza to see the latest House band,

So many reasons to travel afar,

Never mind the fuel and pollution,

I’ll be first to the bar,

The scientists will think of a better solution,

To answer the question I don’t think there’s ten,

Life is a journey we travel every day,

It’s not a question of how many or how far , but when.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

Once you start down the road of giving life-changing tips then you just can’t stop yourself.

Get up early,

Do stretching exercises,

Bake every day,

Take up cut flower arranging,

Buy seeds from Garden Centre,

Write Lists,

Try to do things in order of priority,

Understand your priorities,

Question yourself,

Question others,

You see , the possibilities are endless but only you can decide if you want to change your life. ( or indeed need to. )

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

To be able to do something to whatever level,

Is surely something to enjoy and revel,

Whether it’s making a drinkable cup of tea,

Or doing complex surgery of the knee,

It might feel basic to you,

But for some they can just gaze and stare,

In wonder that you take such care,

They may not be able to participate,

But for that there is no need to berate,

Each one of us has a role to play,

And our special skill to use each day

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

Oh I would like to be dramatic and perhaps fill the air,

With wafts of forthright behaviour like Jane Eyre,

Perhaps though her time has passed,

Modern women are much more fast,

I could split my personality and jump the gender divide,

And pursue my worship of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hide,

Forsooth that journey would be quite a ride,

I’m not sure everyone would be on my side,

I think today though I’m on a Gothic Dream,

For my choice I think is a bit extreme,

Who else could I be but for a day ,

But the unfortunate and forever young Dorian Grey,

As I’ve ended up on a Wylde note,

The character that would win my vote,

The one I really liked the most,

Would surely be the Canterville Ghost

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

Reason is a six letter word that can define philosophy or catastrophe.

Reason itself can be admirable or prove itself irrevocably wrong.

What I think doesn’t really matter. Reason happens because there’s a reason.

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I remember many years ago a girl who told me that she would get herself into debt to make her rented house look perfect. I was struggling with my first mortgage and bought very little for the house and as I was out working all the time as long as everything was watertight and clean I wasn’t too worried. Sensible really.

Now my partner has retired and I’ve also stepped of the heady ladder of workdom. I actually envisaged doing all the things that I would like to do to make “our” house perfect. Not a chance.

Finance wise every decision will have to be carefully considered because afterall going away on holidays for 9weeks is actually more important.

I had a Eureka moment last week, I realised all these thoughts of “improvements”, painting, new furniture, new carpets , eating dinner of a dining table were just making me positively grouchy. They were an impossible ladder to climb, particularly when “grumpy” does not want to do any DIY for at least a year.

” I’ve just given up work , I don’t want to start doing more work!” He hasn’t actually said that , but I suspect that is what he’s thinking. He’s taken over walking the dog and in truth as I completely blame my dog for my bad knees I know that him indoors will do the “miles” and it’s hard. Yes all he wants when he gets back is a cup of tea and a nap. Ditto the dog a bowl of water and a nap with daddy and then a play when he wakes up, another walk, his dinner and then more play. Then it will be time for bed for everyone.

Which leaves me with my writing and the “housework” and a lot of recycling hobbies, oh and the garden and my allotment. Jeez , I’m exhausted writing that down. I found a new system to help me with the housework, complete three tasks a day . It works for me, so “housework” doesn’t seem like climbing Mount Everest.

Anyway that Eureka moment took a great weight off my shoulders, no trips searching for the right paint, a bit of paper glue can fix that flap of wallpaper rather than re-papering the whole wall , Amazon are out of stock of those small paint rollers so we will leave painting behind the radiators to some other time. Suddenly the list of” jobs to do ” disappeared.

Yes , some of you will just sigh in disbelief , but in truth ” to delay to another day” is a valid decorating style and fits in perfectly to some of our lifestyles. Chill.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

Absolutely nothing, uhh

How brave of Edwin Starr to write lyrics that define the ordinary people’s experience with War ” A friend only to the undertaker”. The lyrics stick because they are so powerful.

However our gallant intellectuals and ivory tower dwellers will argue that War brings growth and encourages Governments to organise centrally and that Societies have developed more quickly because of conflict and addressing it.

Take weapons out of the Nuclear Debate and we’d find that not to be true, for what is more natural than harnessing the Power of the Atom, not to blow people up but to supply them with low cost energy to build societies that want to work together . Imagine.

Edwin got it so right and no less than the BBC stopped playing his song during the 1991 Gulf War where it was deemed in bad taste by the “hierarchy” of the BBC. My “bad taste” indeed.

The lyrics of the song though state quite clearly what the ordinary people’s experience of War is and it’s not good.

A Politician’s job is not to promote War but to promote Progress and Peace, because that is really what humans thrive on.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

I’ve had this book a long time, it’s by one of our UK Celebrity Chefs in fact I think he would be Chief UK Celebrity Chef Jamie Oliver. He comes over as a positive kind of guy, possibly open to exaggerating his facts through his enthusiasm. So I forgive him and in truth I’ve had some really good ideas out of this book, but 15 minutes, you’ve got to be kidding.

So forget the cuddly “thank you’s” to everyone at the end, the concept board of pictures of what a great bunch of people have made this book possible as well as the summary pictures of the calorific content of the meals (as long as you stick to the portion sizes) and how about ending it with the proviso, that actually the meals, the shopping and the washing up will all take a lot longer than 15 minutes. Honesty is the best policy.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

If I blurted out by accident that would be alright, I couldn’t help myself, but the longer I keep it to myself the better. And I’m certainly not publishing it on the Internet for all the World to know. It’s my little acorn that I want to grow into an oak tree.

Namaste and Thank you for Reading.🙏