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    Darts 2

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    April 29, 2020

    What was I thinking? Darts outdoors in our climate? Luckily, our kitchen is just big enough to accommodate the walking up and down space. The corkboard is useful for stray darts. The postcards are from our trip to Oslo. When stirring the soup, waiting for the kettle to boil or…

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    Podcasting

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    April 27, 2020

    Those who read this drivel on a regular basis might wonder at my audacity to subject a different audience to the spoken version of my blogging. Well, I haven’t come up with any bright ideas yet for the first podcast, Maybe you could suggest something via  Comments. As an Anglo…

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  • darts, Uncategorized

    Darts

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    April 25, 2020

    I have measured our back yard and it is the perfect width. 7 feet 9 and a quarter inches fits neatly with room to spare. The fence is taller than the 5 feet 8 inches to the bullseye and has enough surrounding fence for stray darts. I have attached the…

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    Schrödinger’s cat

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    April 25, 2020

    Thought experiments don’t come much better than Schrödinger’s rebuttal of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. Observation can in some instances change the outcome. But the cat in the box is both alive and dead until the box is opened. Quantum superposition works as a theory for the very small,…

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    You should help if you can

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    April 24, 2020

    Last night the BBC broadcast the Big Night In, a collaborative appeal on behalf of Children in Need and Comic Relief. Interspersed with humorous and innovative offerings by well-known comedians we were informed about those less fortunate than ourselves and asked to donate what we could. Organisations like Unicef, Amnesty…

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  • nationalism, Uncategorized

    Anglo Celts everywhere celebrate

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    April 23, 2020

    Happy Saint George’s day everyone. What a guy, slaughtered a mythical beast, founded a nation, established a state in the USA, and was the name of six kings of England (some of them completely bonkers.)

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  • Sound, Uncategorized

    Let’s get creative with sound

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    April 22, 2020

    Now then boys and girls, are you sitting comfortably? Then, I’ll begin. So began one of my earliest sound memories, a radio programme called Listen with Mother. The combination of storytelling and soothing music (Lavender’s Blue, Dilly Dilly…Lavender’s Green) had me entranced as a boy of about 5 or 6.…

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    You should see the other guy

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    April 17, 2020

    We are all having a tough time with lockdowns and death taking a heavy toll. But just imagine for a moment if you had fled religious persecution and found yourself in a refugee camp…not the easiest situation to imagine. Now picture the scene where you’re living in a tent with…

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    Music to live by

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    April 13, 2020

    As our family approaches 4 weeks staying at home, we are amusing ourselves in different rooms around the house. I got first dibs on the dining room with its view of Divis mountain and patio door. Here I sit with my notebook listening to music as I tap away inexpertly…

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    No booze today

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    April 10, 2020

    No booze today My love has gone away The bottle stands forlorn A symbol of the dawn No booze today It seems a common sight But people passing by Don’t know the reason why How could they know Just what this message means The end of my pubs, the end…

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