Some people take great pleasure in sitting on the riverbank for hours drowning worms, waiting for a fish to submit to being hoisted ashore, forced to pose for a selfie, while trying to avoid looking like Katie Price, before being thrown back.
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The more disconnected we become from nature, the greater the delusion that nature is benevolent, populated by Walt Disney
characters. Yet, if nature were a health professional it would be struck off.
I consider I’m in good condition for a person in my condition and still above ground, due to the fact I’ve always avoided
doctors who tend to associate with sick people and distribute more drugs
than a Mexican cartel.
Age increases value. That’s why I rarely venture outdoors for fear of being held to ransom. But antiques are hard to
define. Artwork and artefacts increase in value as they age, but when mass-produced are rarely valuable unless they’re defective.
I agree with the sentiments expressed by
Bruce Springsteen in his 1992 song “57 Channels (and nothing on.)” In the US, there are around 2,000 TV channels. In the UK, about 480.
I’ve slept in some uncomfortable places. Once on a steamer out of Papua with no money for a cabin I hung a hammock
in the engine room.
As a teenager, life was mostly grey, boring and predictable until the sixties got swinging. Then everything changed.
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Weather events seem to have taken over the news recently. After forty days and forty nights of rain and subsequent flooding, plus wildfires in Europe, Australia and North America, it felt like we were being visited by the second coming of the
plagues of Egypt.
Most warning signs are helpful, such as ‘Road Ahead Closed’ or ‘The person you are talking about is stood right behind you!’
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