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Take cover hide your children
From the time when Israel were attacking Gaza following the awful October 7th 2023 events. Now Hezbollah are under attack. The rights and wrongs I don't pretend to understand - but the innocents so often suffer.
You
Today we are all asked to think about how things are viewed from the perspective of others - the very sad case where a 17 year old was stabbed in Sothampton and the perpetrate was able to ( initallly anyway) convince the police that he, the per...
Free will
From March 2024 - Free Will - the downside of free will is that sometimes you wish you hadn't got it - it would much easier to accept what you've been told to do and get on with it. BUT - that wouldn't work - would it ?
The day has come
The Day Has Come - from May 2024. I get appraised - like most of us I suppose - on an annual basis. Its usually the same - what do I think I do well?what do I think do could better? How do I interact with colleagues, pupils, my line manager ( w...
Nothing to see here
Watching the excruciating Nicola Sturgeon interview about her ex-husbands embezzlement of £400,000 from the Scottish National Party - ( purchases including 2 hairdryers for a very bald man) it was hard to comprehend that she knew nothing.
Always been a dreamer
The slightly strange heatwave in the UK in recent days seemed to have taken me back to childhood ( not again ) - those endless days of summer looking up at the clouds - daydreaming. Nice way to spend your time - how frequently does that happen ...
Get ahead of yourself
The idea of undertaking something too quickly or too hastily without sufficient consideration or deliberation -What the hell - I'm all for it.
Set Them Free (2026 re-mix)
An instrumental re -mix of a 2024 song - much better without the vocals ! - there comes a time when you to step back and let them do their own thing !!
Sunday papers
They used to our last refuge for some sort of authority on whats happening in the world. I'm not so sure they can respond quickly enough to events anymore.
Another crossroads (Suck it and see)
They seem to come up with increasing frequency - time to make a choice - time to decide. Give it a go - there's nothing to lose.
Leave it all behind
So whats it like ? when you disappear off the scene, move on to greener pastures, sling your hook ( thats a great phrase !)
Take it apart
One of my interests - taking things apart and then putting them back together again to see how much better they can be. I'm quite good at the first bit - not so good at the putting them back together again..
Low on Battery, Low on charge
From Novmber 2024 - Low on battery/ Low on charge - it happens to us all now and then
Fortune Palace
Apparently a family run group of Chinese restaurants founded in 2010 - pretty damn good.
The Twilight
From November 2024 - the Twilight. Starts the fifth year of the Guitar EmporiumThanks for listening.
History means Nothing
History is bunk - the Henry Ford quote - maybe - but if we studied it a bit I think we'd see that we so often make the same mistakes again and again. From 2023,
Development plan
Everybody must have one - you gotta be "going forward " ( as they say) always looking for the next opportunity the next challenge - why ?
In situ
Going nowhere - if you're being pushed around and about - let them know - you're staying in situ
Just to compare
There are so many options out there and so often the advice is just to compare - ah thanks - that doesn't seem to help very much.
Thucydides trap
There was some discussion about this coming out from the US - China summit. A rising power inevitably comes into conflict with the long established power.But which way round was it ?China has the history - America is pretty new to...
The Ancients
To the old civilisations - The Aztecs the Inca's .the Egyptians, the Greeks the Romans and all the others - here's to them !
Pushback
Resistance - to a plan or proposal ; It seems to be a very trendy way of representing failure to get through a scheme.Pushback seems to be an easier way of saying "that just isn't going to happen"