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  • Cluttercore

    02 November 2020

    Cluttercore If untidiness is becoming a trend, I've been ahead of the curve for decades. Memories work best with triggers. Yes, tactile sensations, but visual stimulae work just as well. cluttercore is "an organized mess" Cluttercore is about having an...

  • wormeries

    09 February 2019

    Wormeries: There are watertight buckets and wormeries you can buy in suitable shops, which is good if you haven't got a garden. If you have a garden, then make a compost, and worms will come anyway. Not forgetting that worms are not necessary. Composting...

  • Tomatoes

    10 February 2019

    If you wash them, the skins of non-organic tomatoes are still good for you because they are so thin that many pesticides just pass straight through them into the pulp. Contrary to the common myth, organic tomatoes are not pesticide free - it is virtually...

  • One thing I have done is … nothing!

    25 December 2020

    One thing I have done is … nothing! When the flowers are gone I have left the seed heads out for the birds and left the fallen leaves for the worms. We have a resident hedgehog under our shed and I have been putting out hedgehog food to help him fatten...

  • Always smile and say please

    22 July 2020

    Always. Always smile and say please and thank you. Always help with doors and parcels and prams. Always compliment if you think to. The world is so dark and horrible in so many ways at the moment, and so many of us are struggling. See other people for...

  • Bees working hard for Honey

    22 July 2020

    Bees working for some lovely Honey The worker bees live a very short life. Their average life span is about six weeks. The worker bees are the sterile females of the bee population. They feed honey and pollen to the queen of the hive. The worker bees...

  • Overrated Twitter by the media

    23 December 2019

    So true that people in the media tend to overrate Twitter, it's not widely popular outside media and celeb circles. Facebook has been a conduit of poison - both professionally orchestrated and of the amateur kind. It's hard to say whether the mountains...

  • protecting the environment is expensive

    21 July 2020

    Relying on market-based solutions to protect the environment, like relying on any significant, large organisation to self-regulate, is fundamentally flawed and lazy (and possibly only truly invoked by those who don’t sincerely want scrutiny). Also, protecting...

  • Likes

    05 February 2019

    Why should Likes matter?" Indeed. While having a few friends is often a great help, a big number of likes or followers is nothing to be wished for. "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." -- Mark Twain...

  • Sunday

    12 May 2019

    Sunday is alive with birdsong Sunday to take a smile at it. Tea and coffee in front of me. A sipping cup in each hand. A taste from each other one sweet and one without A tea and then a coffee and then a taste reversed clippers then are found to clip...

  • Parler is being rescued by Scotland

    19 January 2021

    Parler is being rescued by a limited partnership, a financial structure in Scotland that allows nonresidents to create companies with little scrutiny. Aleksei Likhachev and Evgeniy Marchenko , two Russian businessmen who registered it, remain owners of...

  • Who is tracking the Internet?

    04 July 2017

    An internet security specialist discovered that Facebook is like the BigBrother. Facebook is apparently tracking what you browse even after you have logged off This is done so that facebook can sell that data to advertisers and earn from your searches....

  • Sleep as a healing process.

    20 July 2020

    Sleep is a state of body and mind where a person’s nervous system, sensory perception and action of voluntary muscles are inactive and inhibited. It is essential to be content and be in happy mood. Not having adequate sleep increases the urge to reach...

  • Facebook harvest our souls

    19 July 2020

    Whether it’s Facebook, Twitter or any other platform they all do the same thing. They harvest your most private details about you, run it through a algorithm and sell you garbage like fake autism treatments. Yet we all buy into this based on the delusion...

  • Facebook may now pay the price of Hate Speech.

    19 March 2017

    For too long many internet business companies have been profiting and earning large amounts of money aiding and abetting hate speech. Now it looks like the goose that lays the golden eggs is having it up for dinner. In Britain those that pay to advertise...

  • Sentences: the subject and the predicate. What are they?

    18 March 2017

    Sentences: the subject and the predicate. What are they? Every simple sentence can be divided into two parts. The subject tells you who or what is doing something (the person or thing which the sentence is about): Alistair The predicate tells you what...

  • Sir Derek Alton Walcott, KCSL OBE OCC (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017)

    17 March 2017

    T - Sir Derek Alton Walcott , KCSL OBE OCC (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) The Bounty 1997 This is the right light, this pewter shine on the water,not the carnage of clouds, not the expected wonderof self-igniting truth and oracular rains,but these...

  • Songbirds poaching in Cyprus.

    16 March 2017

    In Cyprus last year nearly 1.7 million birds were illegally killed in the Republic of Cyprus. There is a place in Cyprus spot that half of the migratory bird species from Europe, Africa and the Middle East stop in Cyprus for a break. On the black market...

  • Pope Francis: Attractive Qualites

    18 July 2020

    Pope Francis: Complaining Is Not An Attractive Quality Pope Francis’ preached a message that all of us need to consider, and is especially important for all people who are looking for a lasting relationship. He warned that complaining about others and...

  • Gourock a day to enjoy

    15 September 2017

    Gourock A quiet day in Gourock Only a handful of people on the ferry. A pleasant walk up its hills Crunching some twigs as I look down towards the peninsula that I have had come from this delightful morning. The wind is gentle not so strong this day....

  • Sea-shells in Gourock

    15 September 2017

    Sea-shells here in Gourock Sea-shells are in abundance here. Wonderful it would be if I would be able to gather them up and use them to buy some things in the local shop. Monetary symbols of exchange have changed over time. It is interesting to see how...

  • A wonder of the world

    17 April 2018

    “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it earns it. He who doesn’t pays it.” You know who said that? Albert Einstein. How is it that some people seem to have such a firm grip on their financial future while others find...

  • Hamburg G20

    06 July 2017

    Hamburg. Bosch in his imagination would have painted it 500 years ago. The high-security zone is in fact Hamburg. Hamburg the high-security zone. Hamburg no way in and no way out for us ordinary people. Most of the roads have been blocked. Drones are...

  • The wise bird

    09 August 2017

    What the bird would say - "I AM sorry, my dear, But I'd rather live here ; The skies they are fair, And I love the fresh air, The trees they are green, And I sit like a queen, On a branch as it goes, While the pleasant wind blows, I have more on my table...

  • A look-out perch on a Summer's day

    29 July 2017

    A look-out perch on a Summer's day. A spotted fly-catcher has just left its look-out perch on a post and is hawking flies. Why, you may ask, is it called a spotted flycatcher when it has no spots? It is the young birds, in their first year's plumage,...