Tag: love
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priceless
These cufflinks were a wedding anniversary gift to me from my wonderful wife, Sally: 25 years!!! You may be able to see that they are made from the internal workings of vintage watches. The watches no longer tick, but you can see cogs, wheels and other tiny gubbins (a technical term). I think they are…
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thundercat ho!*
There’s a video that has gone ‘viral’ which shows a small boy being attacked by a dog and an unlikely rescuer. You can watch it here if you don’t know what I am on about. (Be warned that other versions include a close up of the injury the boy received). Watch it now or read on…
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being a complete tactical numpty
Imagine that you have swum 1500 metres, cycled 40km, and run 10km in a race, only to be finish just a second behind the winner following a sprint finish. That’s what happened to Jonny Brownlee at the weekend in the World Triathlon Championships. Not only that, but it meant that Javier Gomez pipped him to…
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Here be dragons
It may help you to read yesterday’s bloggage at this point and then come back, in order to set a context. Done that? Good. On ancient maps, so we are told, where the map maker had run out of knowledge at the edge of the map they would write ‘Here be Dragons’ or similar warnings…
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Forgiveness
Following yesterday’s bloggage about ‘sorry’ I want to offer some reflections this morning about forgiveness: the other side of the coin. Yesterday I suggested that Elton John was wrong when he sang that “Sorry is the hardest word” because I think it can be harder to forgive than to ask for forgiveness. Often I am…
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service
A nice man has just come to read our electricity and gas meters. He made a joke about not outstaying his welcome as he left. Yesterday I had a courtesy phone call from the company with whom we have some of the family mobile phone contracts. And the lady with whom I was speaking was…
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words
Warm air has been flowing up and over cold air and the water vapour from the warm air has super-cooled to form tiny ice particles, which have been precipitated across our part of the country. It has snowed. This morning my wife and I coordinated 34 facial muscles and 112 postural muscles, particularly the orbicularis oris muscles, and applied our…
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