It was one of those meandering late-night conversations. Me: “It’s Monday tomorrow…” B: “Yes, another Monday…” Me: “Seen too many of those….” But how many? I suddenly wondered. Grabbing a scrap of paper and my trusty pen, I started working it out. I’m 55 years old; 55 times 364 is 20020 days; 55 divided by […]
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That phrase was obviously thought up by somebody who had never experienced poverty. Yes, looked at logically and in isolation, it’s perfectly correct: Happiness is an intangible state and not a purchasable commodity. However, it’s a phrase that’s too often abused and misused. Too many people interpret it as “Money is incompatible with happiness”, which […]
So off I went this morning to do my civic duty. My intention had been to walk there and back, to get some much-needed excercise. But B was parcelling up some Elfin Diary stuff that was due to be sent out today, had run out of parcel tape and was convinced that the parcels firm […]
…has been beautifully sunny – summer’s here at last! I’m still not feeling too well – I’m still getting breathless and exhausted at the slightest exertion, and my legs are aching and bothersome. I can barely get any housework done – just sweeping the floor, or going up and down the stairs one too many […]
Well, here I am, faffing again when I should be working. Woke up this morning from a fairly miserable night of nasty dreams of being choked and smothered; my sinuses were burning and blocked, so I’ve got a cold, obviously. And the blocked nasal passages led to the dreams. My blood-pressure medication gives me vivid […]
Well, got back from my daughter’s wedding. The ceremony itself went OK, except that Daughter no 1 failed to turn up, having fallen out with everybody (yet again); we delayed everything for 15 minutes, but she didn’t show. But all the other kids were there and the grandchildren as well, and lots of friends. The […]
Not feeling happy. Got the coal bill this morning. Ugh. And we have to get money together to go down to Preston at the weekend for D3’s wedding; we’ll be lucky if we have enough spare cash after filling the tank to buy a card. And I’m feeling under the weather anyway. Saw the doc […]
The Oakleaf Circle website has won an award! Here is the text of the email (all identifying stuff blocked out so that it doesn’t show up in the search engines). Hello! This is X, Junior Editor for XXXXXXX.com, the internet’s authority hub for spiritual related web sites. Welcome, and congratulations on such a wonderful site […]
I thought that I had written a pretty definitive article on end-of-the-world prophesies, in 1999. I’ve been quite proud of my research and never let a chance to advertise it go by. However, trawling though the blogosphere today, what do I find? Yes, the really definitive list of end-of-the-world prophesies. From 2800BC to, ooh, 4,000,000,000,000 […]
…and, as the Americans would say: “It’s all Pope, all the time!” I’ve just spent time trawling through the TV news channels trying to find non-Pope news. Apart from 10 minutes of sport on BBC News24, there’s nothing. It was bad enough last week, when every news bulletin led with 10 minutes or more of […]