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Gone writing
June 25, 20194,000 posts
June 8, 2019I started this blog on 16th April 2010 and have just reached 4,000 posts.
That’s 3,344 days and I am still ahead of my initial objective of writing a post a day.
It started off as a way of taking a break from other writing. I have never had any particular audience in mind and it has proved to be very effective therapy against “writers block”. Inevitably posts have been about any subject that happened to be uppermost in my mind at the time.
I have no aspirations to be educational or inspirational or of influencing others. I suppose – as with most writings – I keep posting to satisfy myself.
Time lines are relative
April 6, 2019History is pre-me and is the diffuse period before I was born.
Ancient history is the misty past before my father was born.
The good old days lasted all the time I was dependent upon someone else.
Modern times covers my working life.
And the devolution of mankind started when I “retired” and the world has been going downhill ever since.
Many New Year celebrations left in 2019
January 1, 2019Apart from in June and July, it would seem that New Year is celebrated somewhere in every month of the year.
Devolution of democracy
December 28, 2018A modern politician’s priorities:
- Me
- The party
- The party’s leadership
- My voters
- My party’s voters
- The country
- My constituency
Other parties’ voters do not enter the picture.
Where matter and energy came from
December 23, 2018
How big is the universe?
December 23, 2018
“Girls were made to love and kiss” – and who are we to interfere with this
December 19, 2018Fertility drops when you can’t tell the boys from the girls.
This is now as politically incorrect as it is possible to be.
Still true though.
“Flirting is jolly, it’s folly, but fun”
I must have first heard this in the 1960s and it was probably the Richard Tauber version I heard on radio. It is still as enjoyable now as it was then. (The second verse has not quite the meaning it once had).
GIRLS WERE MADE TO LOVE AND KISS
From the Operetta “Paganini” (1925) (Franz Lehár)
(Original libretto by Paul Knepler & Béla Jenbach)
(English adaptations by A.P. Herbert & Harry Dexter (1937),
and by David Kram & Dennis Olsen)
As recorded by Richard Tauber:
Girls were made to love and kiss
And who am I to interfere with this?
Is it well? Who can tell?
But I know the good Lord made it so
Am I ashamed to follow nature’s way?
Shall I be blamed if God has made me gay?
Does it pay? Who can say?
I’m a man and kiss her when I can
Yet I have suffered in love’s great deeps
I know the passion that never sleeps
I know the longing and wronging of hearts
The hope that flatters and shatters and smarts
I suffer still but I sleep at nights
Man cannot always be on the heights
And when our aching and breaking is done
Flirting is jolly, it’s folly, but fun
Girls were made to love and kiss
And who am I to interfere with this?
Does it pay? Who can say?
I’m a man and kiss her when I can
Best optical illusion of 2018
December 2, 2018Follow the circles around.
None intersect.
I have not come across this before and it is the best optical illusion I have come across this year.
(from The Science Scoop)
from The Science Scoop
Could the Democrats win California without the illegal voters?
October 20, 2018Saturday trivia.
It is utterly inexplicable that the US must be the only country where in an election, open only to citizens, voters are not required to have proof of eligibility to vote (citizenship). However it is perfectly understandable that the Democrats who are the primary beneficiaries of illegal votes are against the idea of any voter having to have any proof of identity or citizenship.
I reckon that in the 2016 election the Democrats (Hillary Clinton) had the benefit of about 3 million illegal votes by non-citizens (mainly in California and New York).
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