Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
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9th April 1941:
The budget has almost knocked the Balkan campaign out of the news. It is the former and not the latter that I overhear people everywhere discussing. [1]
[1] The budget raised the basic rate of income tax to ten shillings in the pound (50%). Peter Davison
From the Orwell Diaries.
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7th April 1941:
Belgrade bombed yesterday, and the first official announcement this morning that there is a British army in Greece – 150,000 men, so they say. So the mystery of where the British army in Libya had gone to it at last cleared up, though this had been obvious enough when the [...]
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I was a little bit surprised by my weigh in this week, a gain of 3lb. I only had one bad day which was Mother’s day, the food options were out of my hands. But even the few extra treats during that meal can’t account for such a gain. I thought I [...]
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
Robert A. Heinlein
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By Alfred Lord Tennyson
WHO would be
A mermaid fair,
Singing alone,
Combing her hair
Under the sea,
In a golden curl
With a comb of pearl,
On a throne?
II.
I would be a mermaid fair;
I would sing to myself the whole of the day;
With a comb of pearl I would comb my hair;
And still as I comb’d I would sing and say,
“Who is [...]
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After my challenging week with visitors and eating out I am surprised that I have only gained 1lb. Now the clocks have moved forward and everything is awakening for spring I will have more opportunities to get out and about which will involve more walking.
I am sure that will give me the boost I [...]
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