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The rest of this post is a bit disjointed. They are the notes I dictated as I was walking toward the midway point of my walk. The dictation tool isn’t perfect, it is pretty good but just needs a little bit of editing. Sorry it’s a bit disjointed – good practice for improvisation. There’s justContinue reading “679 – The Morning Walk”

I am very aware that my writing is a bit dry. In an effort to inject some feeling I did an experiment by using the dictation mode on the iphone and dictating what I felt about what my senses were telling me; The sounds of the Morning Chorus, the noise of four squirrels playing inContinue reading “678 – Now, that was annoying!!”

I’d been awake since about 4AM. I had been thinking that I would take advantage of being awake to get up early, no not that early, 0520 instead of 0535, not too mad. But it would give me an opportunity to do a bit of videoing before the #Breakfastclub starts. Getting up that 15 minutesContinue reading “677 – Out in the morning”

There are many articles and books that I have read where I have thought, I really wish I could write like that. Even down to the latest issue of country walking, I’m only on page eleven and the author of the article is waxing lyrical about the waves of flowers he is seeing. I sometimesContinue reading “676 – A bed of Daisies”

The book by Richard Bach was published in 1970. I’m not sure when I read it. But I can remember that the book caused a bit of a stir. I also recall, that having read it I recall not really understanding it. Perhaps it’s time to read it again. We’d had a lovely and productiveContinue reading “675 – Jonathan Livingstone Seagull”

We paid a flying visit to Swanage today. We didn’t do much more that just sit in the car and watch the sea. But, we were absolutely fine with that. You might think what a waste of a trip, why didn’t you go and look and around, and even worse, why didn’t you take anyContinue reading “674 – Swanage”

In a small barn, in a place that I know and love, a family of swallows have set up home. These incredible birds have flown all the way from Africa, to make their home here. That they destroyed part of the ceiling to build their mess, and are leaving a pile poo on the floorContinue reading “673 – Swallows”

I did my usual morning walk, which was fine. I even took the header picture not really expecting much of it, but really I quite like it. I think it’s better in B&W. It’s the lines, the textures and shading, all seem quite pleasing to my eyes. There’s even a degree of symmetry in theContinue reading “672 – I had a thought”

You might have noticed that my posts tend to be non-controversial. That is quite deliberate. The last thing I want is to get stressed over my writing, and stressed about the effect it has upon my readers, I don’t want your blood boiling. It’s all about relaxation. Having said that I do mention some issuesContinue reading “671 – Controversy”

I have a sense that my blog entries of late have been posted only to maintain the running count. Whilst you see the thee sequential numbering in the posts, and that I am at 670 is personally amazing, there is also another count, which is internal to WordPress. If you post each day then theContinue reading “670 – The Blog”