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Sep 1, 2019Sep 2019

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Some people think that the typical image of Christ that we have today was originally modeled on Cesare Borgia. The evidence is thin but certainly the image of Christ we have today first became popular at the right time. The odd one or two before, ...

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Aug 31, 2019Aug 2019

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Interesting story about early humans, and perhaps why we are such odd animals.

Aug 30, 2019Aug 2019

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This one seems to be an ad redirecting to a website, I do not know if that is ok or not .

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Aug 27, 2019Aug 2019

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Here is someone who not only lists the problems with social media, which is common, but also has an answer to one of them , which is not.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Aug 27, 2019Aug 2019

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Heres a puzzle to get your cells to work on, and part of another story from deep time.

Aug 20, 2019Aug 2019

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When one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone. Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him, who, though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone. Kahlil Gibran

Aug 18, 2019Aug 2019

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For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill ? Seek him always with hours to live. For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness. Kahlil Gibran.

Aug 18, 2019Aug 2019

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Here's one from a Christian writer, but I like it anyway. "You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give." Kahlil Gibran

Aug 17, 2019Aug 2019

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Many years ago when photographic equipment was in real terms much more expensive, and I was much poorer. I wanted to take macro/close up photos, but could not afford bellows units and extension tubes even for my cheap SLR. So I made this box ...

General & Hellos

Aug 17, 2019Aug 2019

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I have got a new name!... Two young women rang my doorbell the other day. When I answered they said. “You have heard of all the horrible things that are happening in the world today, do you think that god is to blame for that ? ” They then ...

Aug 17, 2019Aug 2019

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The Echinops ritro are in full flower, really big thistle like plants growing to six feet (2m) and like most thistles, they are really loved by the insects.

Aug 17, 2019Aug 2019

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Should people get together and organize a boycott of electric card payments, at least until governments are forced to issue cards of their own, so that you can use national cards which contribute to tax revenue and social projects. Electronic ...

CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Aug 16, 2019Aug 2019

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Lush, grand, and more than slightly sad. For those in the northern hemisphere, as we begin the fade towards Autumn.

Aug 16, 2019Aug 2019

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"You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not a single event - but a habit." Aristotle

CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Aug 16, 2019Aug 2019

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This is a bit different for most people in the West, though only classical in the widest sense , and I do not know how it works a a lullaby, but I loved it.

Community Senate

Aug 13, 2019Aug 2019

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So being very under employed today, I thought that it would perhaps be a good idea to take a look at the sister site Humanist, never been before. But what I can not understand is how do I log in, it does not seem to be automatic when I click the link...

Aug 13, 2019Aug 2019

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The Agapanthus are in full flower now. I am always amazed that we can grow these exotic bulbs in our climate, the trick is good drainage and full sun, though where I have seen them in the wild, in the warm south, they tend to grow in the shade. The ...

General & Hellos

Aug 13, 2019Aug 2019

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ABOUT MUFFINS. I see that the issue of Atheist/Agnostic has been rearing its head again, as it does every few days, so since some people find this a bit tiresome, I thought that a post on muffins would be more interesting. Suppose for a minute, and ...

Aug 10, 2019Aug 2019

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The Acanthus are coming to the end of their flowering now. The one I grow is Acanthus spinosus, it is very spiny, even the flowers are untouchable, but the thistle like leaves are spectacular. It is of course one of the most celebrated of all plants ...

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Aug 10, 2019Aug 2019

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Nice overview and a good narrative about the deep past. Which I always love.

CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Aug 8, 2019Aug 2019

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These are a bit chopped up I am sorry, but it does pose an interesting question. If you could only ever listen to three pieces, what would they be.

Small Business Owners & The Self Employed

Aug 5, 2019Aug 2019

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One of the best ways I found to promote a small business and get sales, is to give talks and demos to clubs etc.. The big advantage of it is that you will often sell quite a lot of your products, and do very good publicity, but unlike hiring market ...

Aug 4, 2019Aug 2019

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BoingoOingo42 posted a quote from Shelley, 'The Necessity of Atheism.' the other day, I thought it would be worth looking up, and despite the old fashioned English it is good, here is another from the same work. Man would have been too happy, if, ...

General & Hellos

Aug 4, 2019Aug 2019

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If there is no afterlife/god then we have to do our very best with this life. If this life is a preparation for an afterlife, then we had better do our very best with this life as well. No difference. The only time there is a difference, is if, ...

Aug 1, 2019Aug 2019

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The wild Chicory is just going over in the hedgerows now. It is a beautiful sky blue, though sometimes tinted with pink and it looks spectacular where it grows on top of the chalk downs, under a blue sky. But sadly, when I tried growing it in the ...

Aug 1, 2019Aug 2019

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"Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a...

Jul 31, 2019Jul 2019

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“But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of ...

Jul 31, 2019Jul 2019

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The Buddleja is also out now, called the Butterfly Bush it is covered in them. This is the white form, though the natural blue is very good, and I can see no difference in the numbers of insects attracted.

Jul 31, 2019Jul 2019

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The Purple Loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria, is coming into flower in the garden now by the pond. It was once a common UK native but like a lot of wetland plants, modern drainage, river straightening and agro-chemicals are making it rare, so that you ...

Small Business Owners & The Self Employed

Jul 29, 2019Jul 2019

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I do a lot of my business on line and by mail order. Fortunately not all of it, because mail order can be a pain, so it should not be undertaken lightly. If you try, you will have to learn to live with a percentage of people each year who can not ...

Small Business Owners & The Self Employed

Jul 27, 2019Jul 2019

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Since most small business people have a story to tell, which is usually very interesting, it may be a good idea to ask people if they would like to share their CV, just for fun if nothing else.

Small Business Owners & The Self Employed

Jul 27, 2019Jul 2019

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Better tell you about myself. We were a family run plant nursery in the UK which was grown from an enthusiasm over the last thirty years, though sadly due to bereavements I am now left running it alone. I started my gardening life at horticultural ...

Small Business Owners & The Self Employed

Jul 27, 2019Jul 2019

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Ok, so that make two of us now all I have to do is post something.

General & Hellos

Jul 25, 2019Jul 2019

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Generally, as perhaps too often said before, I'm a broad church skeptic, and have little interest in debates about the small differences between Atheist/ Agnostic/ Humanist etc.. Neither does it seem good, to be hard on believers, since for the most...

Jul 21, 2019Jul 2019

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Sometimes you just get happy accidents. I never thought about it when I planted the climbing rose but having the silver willow behind, seems to set it off very well, to my mind at least.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Jul 20, 2019Jul 2019

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Another story from long ago, on one of my favorite subjects, convergent evolution. And if you thought that there was only one sort of marine reptile, then this is amazing.

Jul 15, 2019Jul 2019

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Not really a garden flower but certainly related to many, the meadowsweet, Filipendula ulmaria, is in full flower now in the hedgerows all around. It was once used as a herb since it contains aspirin, and as a sweetener for drinks. You may grow a ...

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Jul 15, 2019Jul 2019

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This is interesting despite the chirpy nature of the presentation, it is at least self critical and does not end as you expect.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Jul 15, 2019Jul 2019

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This is just an overview, but I thought it was quite interesting to take a world tour, especially the most interesting bits.

Jul 14, 2019Jul 2019

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It is not so much our friends help that helps us, as the confidence we have of their help. Epicurus

Jul 14, 2019Jul 2019

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Come fill the cup, and in the fire of spring, Your winter-garment of Repentance fling: The bird of time has but a little way, To flutter - and the bird is on the wing. E. Fitzgerald / Khayyam

Jul 12, 2019Jul 2019

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Sometimes I think that it is a good idea to make a splash in your garden by putting all your eggs in one basket, like this garden filled with lavender, I saw in Derbyshire yesterday. Or sometimes Primula, Inula, and Campanula make a blend ?

Jul 6, 2019Jul 2019

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" Anyone who tries make a distinction between education and entertainment, doesn't know the first thing about either." Timothy Walker.

Jul 6, 2019Jul 2019

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Eremurus, the fox tail lily is just coming to its peak now, the grass to the side is the Giant Spanish Oat, Stipa gigantica.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Jul 3, 2019Jul 2019

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You just have to be amazed at the places robot get to go these days.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Jul 2, 2019Jul 2019

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Could this be the beginning of low carbon flying.

Jul 1, 2019Jul 2019

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The unusual long flower spikes of Ligularia przewalskiae are coming out now in the garden down near the stream. Like a lot of flowers its named after a Russian general, who like many Russian officers back in Tsarist times doubled as an explorer.

Jun 28, 2019Jun 2019

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It must be summer at last, not only is this the first warm weather here in the UK, but the bowlers turned out on the village green. I felt that this photo just seemed to be naturally framed.

Jun 27, 2019Jun 2019

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Serendipity. I took this as just a snap of my friend on the beach, and then noticed when looking at it later that it captured the stalker creeping up on her. Can you see.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Jun 22, 2019Jun 2019

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Just a quick one about huge things, I enjoyed the presentation.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Jun 20, 2019Jun 2019

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An old story which you probably know quite a bit of, but this is a refreshing new look, with some good new graphics.

Jun 18, 2019Jun 2019

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Everything in the garden seems to be coming up pink. With Rose 'Complicata', Rose 'Celestial' (good scent), Phuopsis, and Paeony.

Jun 18, 2019Jun 2019

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Everything in the garden seems to be coming up pink. With Rose 'Complicata', Rose 'Celestial' (good scent), Phuopsis, and Paeony.

May 25, 2019May 2019

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Everything is lush and full of flower now, especially in the wood.

Philosophy & Meaning

May 25, 2019May 2019

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Many religious institutions have in the past tried to limit secular entertainment, usually under the guise of combating vice. (As in. The village dance leads to sex, then people have babies, then the church has to provide for the unwanted children. ...

May 23, 2019May 2019

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"I think the call to prayer, despite what I think about the doctrine of Islam, is one of the most beautiful sounds I have ever heard. Despite my better judgment I could shed a tear over that sound." Sam Harris. ( I agree with him. Anything from ...

Philosophy & Meaning

May 18, 2019May 2019

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The Bible was made up over a number of centuries by many different editors using multiple sources. In short it is not a book but an album or scrape book of clippings, some of which may have come from high literature, but certainly not all of it, and ...

Community Senate

May 17, 2019May 2019

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I thought that the reply button not working, was perhaps only be for those using the android, but it has got as far as my windows desktop now.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

May 17, 2019May 2019

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This is an interesting story, about cats and missing links, (so don't tell the creationists.)

Silly, Random & Fun

May 17, 2019May 2019

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I think that someone blocked me, that never happened before, does it mean that I am now a proper fully paid up member of the group ?

Community Senate

May 16, 2019May 2019

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I wonder why the desktop icon which takes me to this site keeps changing form, back and forth between two designs ? Fun but strange.

May 12, 2019May 2019

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I had a stall today, at the plant fair at Doddington Hall, it was a lovely day, sold lots of plants. And for one day perhaps, the walled forecourt of the old seventeenth century house, which seems such an austere garden today, looks as gardens of ...

May 10, 2019May 2019

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The Maidenhair and Harts Tongue ferns are at their lush best beside the water spout now. Spring is coming.

General & Hellos

May 7, 2019May 2019

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Don't you just love it when you spend time carefully composing a comment to go with someones post, you think it adds something worthwhile, (Often wrongly in my case it seems.) you submit it, and then find that someone has grabbed double points by ...

General & Hellos

May 7, 2019May 2019

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We all like to think that we have an open mind, but I would like to place a question, which is. How would you know personally if you have an open mind or not, is it subjective or is there a test ?

May 5, 2019May 2019

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Primula veris the delicate Cowslip is blooming in the hedgerows now and in my garden. It is not big or bold but it is wonderful in its own way.

Apr 24, 2019Apr 2019

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Business took me to Wrest Park in Bedfordshire this week, where they are restoring a Victorian folly, and needed a collection of plants.

Apr 15, 2019Apr 2019

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Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants: it is the creed of slaves. William Pitt

Apr 15, 2019Apr 2019

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A couple more of Madeira, the first shows rocks off the "Pan Handle" and the second just to show how steep the island is show a waterfall below a village.

Apr 15, 2019Apr 2019

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Madeira. The interest ( I think, forgive me if you don't.) in this photo is the twisted wall like structure going over the peak in the foreground. These are a feature of mountains in Madeira and were caused when an old lava flow cracked as it cooled ...

General & Hellos

Apr 14, 2019Apr 2019

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Is there a place or places that you have been to, which are on your bucket list to go back to, even though it is hard to get, where are they and why ? really do have a good reason for wanting to know.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Apr 10, 2019Apr 2019

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OK so this is maths yes but this really does tell you a lot about the world in which we live, and it is easy. Enjoy.

Apr 10, 2019Apr 2019

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The Snakes Head Fritillaria, Fritillaria meleagris, also known as the dice box, are coming into flower now in the garden. They are found in the wild in the UK in old pastures, it is not known if they natives or just naturalized. There is also a less ...

Apr 6, 2019Apr 2019

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The Marsh Marigolds, Caltha palustris are flowering in the garden pond now. Both the single form and the double. Some people say that the flowers of the double form last longer but, though they grow next to one another I doubt there is half a days ...

Non Religious Science teachers -any age

Apr 6, 2019Apr 2019

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As a none teacher I would like to ask a question if I may, this issue came up in a post on another groups page. Education tends to reflect the historical narrative of discovery, especially to use that as its structure for teaching children, yet for...

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Apr 3, 2019Apr 2019

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Weird but wonderful.

CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Apr 2, 2019Apr 2019

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Next time the like button wont work, just mellow and look at the scenery. Very mellow.

Apr 1, 2019Apr 2019

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I saw this garden gate at the weekend and quite liked it, I especially like the way they used the iron bird not in the main frame.

Apr 1, 2019Apr 2019

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Business took me to the village of Bishop Burton in Yorkshire at the weekend. It is pretty to a almost corny extent, so I had to take some photos.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Apr 1, 2019Apr 2019

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This seems a useful and interesting bit of history, which comes over as sober and complete.

Mar 29, 2019Mar 2019

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Apart from the Daffs everything seems to be blue in the garden now. With Chinadoxia, Anemone, Scillia and Pulmonaria.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Mar 28, 2019Mar 2019

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Not sorry for posting something on this group mainly because I think its cute. But with many creationists, antho-centerics disputing this it does matter.

Mar 28, 2019Mar 2019

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They taught us to postpone judgments, to acknowledge mistakes, to mistrust your own work and give cordial credit to others, to assume nothing general from the particular instance, to search for contrary evidence as if it were pearls, to walk around a...

Mar 26, 2019Mar 2019

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Some people think that Forsythia is a bit vulgar if not overdone, but it could just be a case of setting perhaps ? Very old cottage in a nearby village.

Silly, Random & Fun

Mar 25, 2019Mar 2019

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Can I make a small plea and ask PDUA of all members, it maybe a personal thing but I think that I am not alone in that and that a lot of other members share the wish. Or in other words if you have a little bit of a problem with that, it means, ...

Mar 24, 2019Mar 2019

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The nearby village of Rothwell is well known for its naturalized Daffodils, which grow along all the road sides, at their hight now.

Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 22, 2019Mar 2019

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Reasons for not hating those who disagree. Because either they are right and I have failed to listen. They are wrong and I have failed to teach. Or we are both wrong, and we have both failed to learn. But whichever way it is, some of the fault is ...

Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 21, 2019Mar 2019

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Some of the most truly nasty people I ever met, and fortunately there were not many, espoused extreme altruistic doctrines like Christianity. Such subcultures become easy feeding grounds for hypocrites and criminals because they rarely call people to...

CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Mar 20, 2019Mar 2019

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An old favourite yet the presentation and pace of this rendering suits the subject so well, and the chorus gets a second hearing which is even better. See what you think.

CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Mar 19, 2019Mar 2019

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I like this I know the costumes are corny etc. but stay to the end . André Rieu & Carla Maffioletti performing Caro Nome

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Mar 16, 2019Mar 2019

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It seems its never too late. Not for some things anyway.

Mar 16, 2019Mar 2019

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The spring flowers if not the spring weather are out in the garden now so the season is moving on, especially in the shade with Pulmonarias, and Wood Anemone.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Mar 15, 2019Mar 2019

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Something very basic about trees, strong graphic cartoons.

Mar 14, 2019Mar 2019

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Work today meant driving fifty miles across the Fens, the flat, low lying and human drained lands of England at or near sea level ( Little Holland ). Some people think they are dreary a charmless, but others think they have a sometimes bleak and ...

Mar 12, 2019Mar 2019

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A spring day came when I began to know that this was not the first spring of the world. That I had lived through other winters – perhaps seven or eight of them – and known a suddenly tender day like this one, And I wondered, for the first time, ...

Mar 12, 2019Mar 2019

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“The speed drunk monkey acts faster than it thinks.” Donald C. Peattie. I posted a post on the main page based on this quote, but if you do not know Peattie he was a US author who wrote mainly about botany and the green world, in what I think was...

Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 12, 2019Mar 2019

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“The speed drunk monkey acts faster than it thinks.” Donald C. Peattie. Boredom is the greatest power in the human universe, it raises empires, brings them down, and destroys whole ecosystems if not the planet. Just about everything that ever ...

Mar 12, 2019Mar 2019

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This is what every nursery person likes to see in spring, the first rows of new potted plants about to begin growth. It used to be a worry that customers could be offended because I use a lot of old pots, ( cheap ) but then we put up this sign. I ...

Mar 10, 2019Mar 2019

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The first of the seasons 'forced' rhubarb came ready today. If you have never done it, it is very easy. You just put a large bin or tub over a root to keep it warm and dark, then you get tender stems which are very sweet and a lovely pink colour a ...

Mar 9, 2019Mar 2019

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The Black Thorn, Prunus spinosa is in beautiful white flower in all the hedge rows now. It flowers early and often comes in a late cold snap called the Black Thorn Winter. Later it produces the Sloe Berries, which are like small bitter plums, and are...

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