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Category Archives: SMILES
Rambling into Snakes and Ladders
A grey old rainy cold day. Not exactly ideal weather for rambling—- unless it’s indoors around the internet. Somehow from nowhere I found myself thinking about snakes and ladders. Why I don’t know? I had a … Continue reading
Bitcoin News !
What have I started ? I only briefly mentioned bitcoins a few days ago in my last blog and now it is all over the front page of The Times. What’s more, people have been speculating on this new … Continue reading
Rambling 😩Injury
I have only been rambling for a few days and already I am struggling to reach peak fitness. Perhaps I have overdone it walking to the pub. Now I have got a pain in my leg. Somebody suggested it … Continue reading
Rambling Research Start
I am going in search of something. I am not sure what? But it will be fun and I will report on it here as it happens. I am looking for something to do and it has to do … Continue reading
Where am I going 2 ?
A day’s gone by and I still don’t know where I am going. Time relentlessly driving me forward to an unknown destination. BUT IT WAS ALWAYS THUS. The day I was born, I couldn’t know. In my teens, I … Continue reading
Where am I going?
I have lost my focus, so I am rambling. All over they place, at fast and slow pace. But I am still rambling, which maybe was always my way. I didn’t know where I would end up then and … Continue reading
Weather or not?
I have fallen into the habit of turning the iPad on as soon as I wake up and looking up the weather forecast. Just like I used to do with the TV, except you usually had to wait a … Continue reading
Dolphins, Dementia and Swimming
“Incredibly interesting” are the words Professor Simon Lovestone an old age psychiatrist at Oxford University uses to describe a study of dolphins with dementia. It is a collaboration between researchers in Florida and Scotland based on examining the brains of … Continue reading
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My Garden Age 70
My garden is growing faster than me, steadily, constantly, relentlessly. Some of the trees, shrubs and flowers, were there before me and will be there after me. I was born into my garden age, to nurture the things around … Continue reading
