Category: Personal

Guess What I Have Been Banned From Doing!
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Guess What I Have Been Banned From Doing!

Guess what I have been banned from doing! No joke….. …….my catering skills are so bad that I have recently been banned from…… Making tea! I am no longer allowed to add milk to tea. I can make green tea with Jasmine (tea bag version) which of course does not have milk, or ordinary tea [...]

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Beneath Hill 60 – film

Beneath Hill 60 is a film about Australian tunnellers in World War 1 who created the world’s largest explosion under German lines in Belgium. The effect was so strong it was felt as far away as London and Dublin, Ireland! My wife and I went to see the movie last night at a local cinema. [...]

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Personal reflections on Shamanism

Earlier today I sent the following link to a friend: BOMB Magazine: Margaret de Wys – Black Smoke: A Woman’s Journey of Healing, Wild Love, & Transformation in the Amazon I won’t detail my friend’s response for privacy reasons, however some people may find my reply helpful: The vomiting I experienced was dry retching in [...]

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Personal thoughts on health and an allergy.

Earlier this year I developed an allergy which resulted in Hives/Urticaria. Today I have it under control and rarely have to take antihistamines (partly because I have discovered the triggers (food/drink based and Somac – a prescribed medication). The allergy situation has been a nuisance, and at times very debilitating. At one stage things started [...]

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Rowan Tree
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I completed the quiz “What’s your Celtic Zodiac sign?” with the result Rowan – The Thinker.

Today I noticed a Facebook quiz: “What’s your Celtic Zodiac sign?” The result I received was Rowan – The Thinker. I quote: January 1- February 17 Celtic tree astrology recognizes Rowan signs as the philosophical minds within the zodiac. If you were born under the Rowan energy, you are likely a keen-minded visionary, with high [...]

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Personal musings…

From time to time I will post personal musings and anecdotes in this category…. Here is the first… An excerpt from an email to a friend, about whom I had some personal revelations concerning something I had no way of knowing about through other means…. You mentioned that my gift is amazing…. Not really…and I [...]

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Final note on the Urticaria I suffered earlier this year

Regular readers of my blog will recall that earlier this year I suffered a bout of Urticaria. My posts mentioning Urticaria can be found here. The purpose of this post is to inform interested readers of my final conclusions, now that some time has passed. Simply speaking, I self diagnosed that the Urticaria was caused [...]

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Remembering and appreciating friends.
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Remembering and appreciating friends.

Today, 3rd June, is the 15th anniversary of the death of a close friend of mine who died in the northern summer of 94. In fact, he was the best friend I ever had. His name was Peter Vernon Booth (Pete) and he was a very unusual man. Think eccentric English boffin. Highly intelligent (IQ [...]

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Easter – personal recollections.
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Easter – personal recollections.

Easter means different things to many people. For some of my thoughts on spiritual aspects of Easter you can read an article I wrote earlier today: Easter – the real meaning. Currently I am having a quiet weekend getting things done. My wife is away in Melbourne with her family and I have stayed behind [...]

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Drug Muggers: How To Keep Your Medicine From Stealing the Life Out of You

Recently I had a bout of Urticaria, apparently brought on by my consumption of a prescribed medication. You can read more about my situation here. Simply speaking; during my ordeal I reached the conclusion that the Urticaria was caused by a particular medication. I ceased taking anti histamines around 2 weeks ago and the severe [...]

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Places I have lived in – Bath, Somerset, England.
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Places I have lived in – Bath, Somerset, England.

The city of Bath, in the county of Somerset, England was where I lived from 1990 until 1997 when I left England for the last time (not long before they turned the lights out it seems). I lived in a small village just outside Bath called Batheaston, set on the slopes of Solsbury Hill. All [...]

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18th Birthday celebration!
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18th Birthday celebration!

My step-daughter Anoushka has turned 18! The photo below shows my wife, Anoushka’s mother, on the right and on the left is Rhonda, my wife’s younger sister. Unfortunately the birthday cake was not large – and we split it into 4! All in the interests of calorie intake restriction! Poor me!

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Ran out of time to post yesterday…due to health issue.

Yesterday I ran out of time to post on my blogs due to ongoing health/allergy management. I was attending the Doctor and Pharmacy late into the evening to alter my medication. This weekend I will be writing about my experiences in detail, partly so that they can help others. My condition was diagnosed, correctly, as [...]

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Had to deal with a serious allergy today.
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Had to deal with a serious allergy today.

Today I had to deal with a serious allergic reaction – my battle has been raging on and off for just over two weeks. I have commented on some aspects of it here in an article about customer service. The allergy issue put me behind today (Wednesday 28th) time wise and at lunchtime I even [...]

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