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Far different
Fred Neher’s Life’s Like That (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This past week has been far different from the previous one for me in quite a few ways. I am out of the ‘couldn’t care less attitude’ I had, I...
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Nothing special happening
I get excited by astronomical events, like the transit of Venus yesterday, although I wasn’t in a place where I could see it, wrong country, wrong time. Oh well there are another pair of transits in...
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The thief
Procrastination. (Photo credit: Tysh) Procrastination is the thief of time so the saying goes. Don’t put off till tomorrow what can be done today is easy to say but not always possible to do I have...
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Opportunity taken on three counts
The weather turned really fine on Wednesday and hopefully by the time you read this it will have remained so. It was forecast to be nice through to the weekend anyhow. I had no work scheduled for...
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It’s slowly creeping back across the floor
Weathered (Photo credit: JEBourk) These past few weeks have been rather good as far as the weather is concerned. Yes we have had rainy days but hey, this is the UK and in my case England. Throughout...
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The best part? This is your life?
“This Is Your Life” BBC TV 1950s Russ Conway (Terry Stanford) (Photo credit: brizzle born and bred) You can read much about my past life in the pages listed above but a very brief account goes like...
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I wonder how long it will be?
January 2010 Snow Scene (Photo credit: ς↑r ĴΛϒκ❂) I wonder how long it will be before somebody calls me to do a job for them? I already have one job to do in the new year, one I was asked to do...
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The past (105 years ago)
Here is a film showing life as it was in 1907 in Vancouver (shown on AOL today). I simply love this sort of thing. It reminds me of my own mortality when I watch the people in the clip knowing that all...
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When would you have liked to live?
Elizabeth I of England, the Armada Portrait, Woburn Abbey (George Gower, ca 1588). Other versions of the Armada portrait are by different artists. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) There are many benefits to...
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Half-way through already
Time is a Tickin’ We are half-way through the year already, today being the Summer Solstice when the sun reaches the highest point in the sky in the northern hemisphere. On this day there are more...
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A window of opportunity
English: A Window of Opportunity, Birmingham If you like 1960′s monster architecture, you’ll love Birmingham!This is the upper part of the House of Fraser building. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I was...
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Odd times
Cavity wall construction (Photo credit: HEA Engineering Subject Centre) Over the years I have noticed just how much my life has changed. I have more time to myself than I ever had before but also my...
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Time found, well for some things.
This image is from Vaseline company archives of various published materials. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The weather was brilliant on Monday, sunshine most of the day and the wind had dropped...
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Three days in
Approaching autumn. A few days past the autumnal equinox and the bramble leaves are turning. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Now it is three days into the Autumn by the clock, as we passed through the...
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Down memory lane
North Western Hotel Built by the London and North Western Railway as a station hotel, it became redundant when the new Adelphi Hotel was built and became offices. When these were vacated, the building...
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Weekend off?
Brother and sister sitting in flowers (Photo credit: Wikipedia) As I write this on Friday evening I have the entire weekend free to myself. I had one job scheduled for Saturday morning but that had...
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In a couple of days
Christmas Dawn The sun rises late in midwinter this far north. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Well not actually a couple of days, more like five but after then the days begin to get longer once more....
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Wasting my time
Result improperly joined aluminum and copper wires in old USSR apartments, done by qualified electrician (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Well I pottered about on Tuesday with nothing to do but come Wednesday...
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So now you know
Revolving earth at winter solstice on the northern hemisphere. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Today marks the time of the Summer Solstice, the point in the Earth’s annual orbit around the Sun when we in the...
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Sudden change
Young Phoenix Canariensis (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The weather changed rather suddenly on Sunday. The morning was bright and sunny for the most part then the afternoon became cool and cloudy. The wind...
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