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  • Why worry about a future hardship that will not happen ?

    16 January 2017

    Enjoy the day Eat a dougnut Drink hot chocolate Smile at the news Too much of our behaviour is determined not by how things are, but how we perceive things are.

  • Neuroscience of multilingualism

    14 January 2017

    Neuroscience of multilingualism After a serious brain injury does having different languages help to a successful recovery https://www.duolingo.com/translation/e5d5266e7a2d155c15595d80a88b5e30

  • Give Blood

    12 January 2017

    Wonderful Some time ago I gave blood quite often When you used to get Guiness in Scotland Guiness that Irish black drink for giving blood in exchange for blood a cool creamy Guiness Still it has changed in the United Kingdom We now just give without any...

  • How to learn a new language more effectively

    11 January 2017

    Eat doughnuts with lots of hot chocolate Sing a new song each day listen to the birds in the morning enjoy the words how they join together Smile and make grammar mistakes with foreign strangers Enjoy

  • The overuse of adjectives

    25 September 2019

    There is now a culture of adjectives and adverbs, for is it that we have forgotten the strength of nouns Here is a few of those adjectives that are over used. Many Pretty Nice Kind Pleasant Tall/short/fat/skinny Big/little Shimmering Absolutely Same exact...

  • A Happy day

    29 July 2019

    Each every day is lovely but today is a lovely day Summer blossoms always gives us joy .

  • Building the roof of the Church

    24 July 2019

    Summer time and with a grand heat wave Perfect to put the roof on the church Unusually to see a church being built from scratch Becoming to see a roof slowly emerging each day ,

  • Costume, colour, dance and song

    21 July 2019

    Costume, colour, dance and song A lovely day to dance and sing

  • Mary Magdeline and Lavender

    08 April 2019

    Mary Magdeline was said to have broken open an alabaster box of Lavender (spikenard) and used the oil to anoint the feet of Jesus but it remains unclear if this lavender of the Bible was actually the same lavender we love for its sweet scent and lovely...

  • Church on a rural Sunday

    21 July 2019

    A Summer's Sunday A place for Church To relax and ponder Be thankful in praise Surrounded by ancient Lime Trees

  • Chickens running wild

    21 July 2019

    Ducks and Chickens on a rural idyllic Summer's day. Such a lovely day

  • Bring Rural to the City

    04 April 2019

    In the City they concrete over everything Squeezing and suffocating the precious The cars spew out poison with parking beside our schools, cafes and hospitals If only we could bring the Rural plant trees alongside their cars put hives to bring the pollinaters...

  • Call of the wild

    03 April 2019

    Noise in the city a man-built environment The constant burr from those endless cars The un-wanted muzak spewed in restaurants Overhead planes drown out all natural song . It is not the quiteness of the countryside it is the burr of those crickets and...

  • Summer with Jazz

    10 July 2019

    Summer Jazz listening to Nigel Kennedy Summer Culture is being alive . , .

  • chocolate ice cream in WInter

    25 October 2018

    Chocolate ice cream is always brilliant but even better in Winter Ice cream stimulates the thrombotonin, a hormone of happiness that helps reduce the levels of stress in your body. The milk in ice cream contains L-triptophane, which is a natural tranquilizer...

  • The song on being Naked

    26 July 2018

    In the nuddy Yes you can swim the seven seas In the nuddy Yes you can put your mind at ease In the nuddy Sisters and brothers make a stand In the nuddy... in the nuddy... In Finland there is a sauna culture so the Finnish do not have a strong feeling...

  • Romansh

    01 July 2018

    . Romansh is one of Switzerland’s four national languages. However only about 0.5% percent of Swiss can speak Romansh. . The Swiss believe that their Romansh came from the Romans when they conquered Rhaetia, (Graubünden) in 15BC . Romansh would be a mixture...

  • The cannabis oil is returned

    16 June 2018

    The cannabis oil for boy's epilepsy treatment is now being returned by the English Home Office. . The decision to allow Billy to be prescribed the treatment is the first time that cannabis oil containing THC, the psychoactive component, has been prescribed...

  • 'Facebook data is for sale all over the world'

    23 March 2018

    'Facebook data is for sale all over the world' Steve Bannon on Cambridge Analytica: Trump’s ex-chief strategist says he ‘helped put the company together’, but didn’t know about data harvested from Facebook Steve Bannon said: “You’re all serfs. Well paid...

  • Jurassic World filmed in Loch Long

    13 June 2018

    Jurassic World was filmed in Loch Long Loch Long is where I live. If you watch the new film of the Jurassic World you could see the Glen Mallan Jetty which is in Loch Long, at Arrochar, in our Argyll and Bute in Scotland

  • Plans are worthless

    05 June 2018

    "Plans are worthless, but planning is everything— keep yourself steeped in the character of the problem you are called on to solve." -President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957 . Plans are just plans until implemented. success is directly linked to how well...

  • Monday

    04 June 2018

    Monday morning Happiness in the air. another lovely day of life . another beautiful sunrise to enjoy. wonderful sounds of a breeze in nature All is wonderful

  • mayhem, maiming and Murder ...

    27 May 2018

    mayhem, maiming and Murder ... Glasgow is back being a murder capital of Europe. Some notorious Scottish Crime Gangs are back to killing each other

  • A Knitted Tree

    14 August 2017

    This naked city with naked trees and then appears a tree is dressed - A lovely knitted jumper fitted just for a tree ...

  • Cycling in Scotland

    21 May 2018

    Cycling today in Scotland Just parked the bike. Had just bought the newspaper 'The Guardian' Taking the nice weather to sit down and read the paper