tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50836840179541171072024-03-13T14:42:09.199+00:00Life of a Fifty-Something YorkshiremanRarelesserspottedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15865928245970626612noreply@blogger.comBlogger546125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083684017954117107.post-75270763857969203682020-05-07T21:53:00.001+01:002020-05-08T13:04:31.483+01:00VE Day, 75 Year Anniversary, 8th May 2020<div>On this day, VE Day, 75th Anniversary, 8th May, Linda and I commemorate the end of war in Europe and recognise the massive relief of the country that the terrifying and destructive period had come to an end. We remember two men, one from each family who came home safe from POW camps in 1945.</div><div>Left is Flight Lt Engineer Roy Lee, Linda's uncle. As a Flight Engineer Sergeant, he was shot down over occupied France in 1943 and badly burned, he was the sole survivor of his Lancaster Bomber. Rescued by locals, he was too badly injured and asked to be turned over to the Germans when he was treated medically and incarcerated in Stalag IVB. He escaped and was eventually captured in Czechoslovakia.</div><div>Pictured right is my Uncle, Rifleman Sydney Jones, Kings Royal Corps who was captured early in the war in Calais and sent to Germany. On one occasion he stopped a German soldier beating his friend with his rifle butt and Syd beat the German. His comrades hid him under the floors of the huts for three months because the Germans were going to shoot him. Thinking he had escaped, eventually he was no longer sought.</div><div>Both men returned to Blighty to their families and loved ones in 1945. They were heroes living in extraordinary times and we are very proud of them. THAT'S why we are celebrating and to remember those who never returned or returned like our uncles did, all of whom put their lives at risk for our future. RIP gentlemen and thank you. Xxxx<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Readers will know I like to visit country houses because it's my history as an Englishman, it's part of my national heritage. Despite Harewood only being just over an hour away, I've never visited but passed it many times.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Despite its grandeur, it's a relatively junior house to some of its brothers and sisters being an 18th century addition to a very ancient landscape where 4000 years ago, we know people lived on this land.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After William the Conqueror turned up uninvited in 1066, the three Saxon Chieftains, owners of the land at Harewood, the wonderfully named Tor, Sprot and Grim forfeited their land because they didn't support William and the land passed to the Norman noblemen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A castle was built on the land but by the mid 1650s it had become ruined and uninhabitable. Gowthorpe Estate and the Harewood estate was next to one another so the Lascelles family bought it all, the Gowthorpe Hall was pulled down and in 1771, Harewood House was built in its stead and it has dominated the landscape ever since..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Lascelles were a French family and there is a town of Laselle in Normandy from whence they came. The past can't be changed, but the wealth of the family then came from slavery and its associated trades. The landscape is by Capability Brown and among others, Chippendale and Adam effectively created Harewood and today houses the biggest single collection of Chippendale furniture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From the first Earl of Harewood in the 1700s to the present Earl, David, three hundred years of history lies in the house. Today, the house is in trust and has museum status which allows it to get grants for conservation work. The family in the past had lost so much in paying death duties, but that will not happen any more. Although the Lascelles family live on the estate farm now, they still take a big part in the trust, the house is now preserved for generations to come. The Dowager Duchess lives in a rented apartment in the hosue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The house has a massive parkland and estate, a bird garden for visitors, a cafe and access to the whole house, upstairs with their wonderful state rooms, downstairs and gardens are open most of the summer months. Volunteer guides are on hand to explain the history and we found them warm, welcoming and knowledgeable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Disabled access is very good although it is a little hilly between the house and the bird garden. The cost is okay, average for this type of attraction and two for one entrance deals can be found all over the place to reduce costs. Parking is expertly managed and a two minute walk to the house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The weather was wonderful, particularly after we'd had a wash out on the Sunday and the traffic was manageable. A great day out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ta-ra.</span>Rarelesserspottedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15865928245970626612noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083684017954117107.post-86051007645088992282015-04-10T13:18:00.001+01:002015-04-10T13:18:51.928+01:00Out with the Old, in with the New<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I hope you had a great Easter break? I had the Bank Holidays and weekend off and the weather was sort of okay, at least it was dry. A 21st birthday party and other social events kept us busy and chilled out and the weather has miraculously decided to get better here. This post Easter week has been pleasant and warm - so much so that smog is a problem in the south UK with industrial pollutants from Europe, domestic road pollution and Saharan desert sand being deposited upon us, it makes for difficult breathing for some. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A break down this weekend coming will see fresher conditions, little in the way of pollution and some rain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I was sorry to hear of the death of Australian Richie Benaud today. He was 84 and had been suffering from skin cancer, something he had campaigned to protect people against for years. This man was a blast from my past and was the voice of cricket on UK television for many years on BBC and then Channel 4. His melodious gentle Aussie accent was coloured by a dry wit and long periods of silence from the commentary box as he left the viewers to enjoy the game and the atmosphere without lots of forced waffle and drivel. His co-commentator for many years was Yorkshireman, the late Jim Laker, himself a spinner (for England) and still holder of the record for taking 19 wickets in a single test match. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Richie Benaud had credibility too. He captained Australia to three Ashes test series wins and took nearly 250 test wickets as a spinner. His honesty meant that the listener could enjoy the game knowing that he praised good cricket from whatever team and criticised it by equal measure without fear or favour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For him the score book is complete and the pavilion doors close for the last time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What did Easter mean for you? Did you celebrate it in a religious context or with traditional pagan rites such as buying Easter eggs and suchlike? Perhaps you mixed the two. I missed the funeral of a good friend recently through no fault of my own which I regret, but I have happy memories of him which will always be around. I would have liked to celebrate his life and what he gave to people. In the same way that I guess most religions celebrate the life of Christ and give thanks for the sacrifice he gave for us and his rising so that we may live again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I know of one religion that sees this as a sad mournful occasion with grey and dark overtones. What a pity. Spiritualism has so much connection to religion although seemingly at a distance for some sometimes. Some who follow my faith don't like to associate themselves with God or religion at all, yet believe in Angels (as I do) who of course are messenger of guess who? God. Nothing is perfect I have learned.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I don't like the orthodox church particularly but it gives people faith and comfort - good for them. I guess I have seen too much hypocrisy to impress me any more. I still have both my Methodist and then my later Church of England christening, but these in my view have now lapsed as I have left their ways behind. God is here, in my heart, God is all around us, I don't have to go to church to believe in the divine. I am a good person, do good things; I think I'm a good citizen, I care for others, I'm even philanthropic now and then where I can afford it. I love my partner, my children and our family. I pray - to the God I understand and love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Importantly, I respect others love for their religion even though some of them are a little at odds with modern living. Religion has damaged me in some ways and recovering is hard but with the love and support of my partner and family, my live is becoming more fulfilled spiritually. There is life after religion!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chat soon</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ta-ra</span>Rarelesserspottedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15865928245970626612noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083684017954117107.post-9288381864084139602015-03-30T14:06:00.002+01:002015-03-30T14:06:55.356+01:00To Turn a Phrase<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Regular readers know I like words, and whilst I don't use them very well, the phrases we use on a day to day basis fascinate me. In the car the other day my partner and I were discussing using 'Shank's Pony' which in my parlance is walking. But what an odd phrase, nonetheless, research show this to be a Scottish original phrase relating to a certain Shank's Nag, in other words, a useless animal so much so - you would have to walk. Who or what Shanks was, the reading doesn't reveal, but its a lovely phrase. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another favourite of my partner is 'Casey's Court' - meaning a sense of chaos or disorganisation. Although I am struggling to find a definitive answer to this one - it does appear to be a relatively recent phrase perhaps named after an old UK music hall 'crazy' act, created by a William Murray which involved lots of children. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">'Bob's your uncle' is another common one I use, but this one sadly is less clear still. It is said however that a famous politician Arthur Balfour got a job, not on merit but because the boss was his uncle (Lord Salisbury aka Robert Cecil). So there you have it - Bob's your uncle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Although I am an East Yorkshire lad, I've always been in and around Hull both for leisure and mostly work. My father's family come from there so there is a bit of an affinity I guess. The language and the way it's used is a bit lazy and uncomfortable listening sometimes. There are however some local phrases which I've discussed before ('snicket' - back tenfoot, etc) but here's another one for you: if you feel warm, here you might say you were "maftin'." Now I'm not sure whether or not that's spelt correctly. It appears in the slang dictionaries but as yet, it appears not to be included in mainstream dictionaries. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A phrase used for many years, particularly on the coast is when someone is described as a 'comfort'. I had no idea what that meant until a colleague once told me that it describes a visitor to the place - "I've come for t'day," (spoken with a thick Yorkshire accent)!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I love the word 'nunty.' Its something dull, unfashionable, out of date. If something is sticky or tacky or even muddy, it's described here as 'clarty.' This time the dictionary tells us that the good old Scottish and us northerners use it as meaning dirty or filthy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The final one for now I use is 'nithered' and that aptly describes a symptom caused, for example by the current weather - feeling very cold! The Collins English Dictionary is yet to field that one!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Enjoy the week, stay warm. Easter is coming!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chat soon</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ta-ra</span>Rarelesserspottedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15865928245970626612noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083684017954117107.post-63891269245635992782015-03-28T07:57:00.002+00:002015-03-28T07:58:37.292+00:00Father and Son Stroll<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My son John and I went for a walk in Hull's old town on his return home for a visit on Friday. It was a nice blustery day and still cool in the late March air. We like bimbling around, looking at the architecture and chatting. We visited the new foot bridge over the River Hull which connects east to west and the view up river looks like this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Arctic Corsair was built in 1960 in Beverley in East Yorkshire, once a prolific shipyard and is the last surviving Hull sidewinder deep-sea trawler. Although she has been a museum since 1999, she saw action in the 1970s in the so called cod war and in 1973, broke the world record for catching cod and haddock in the White Sea. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The next stop was the Wilberforce House and Museum which had some new exhibits. We also had an average sandwich and a slightly less than average cuppa at a local cafe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then a quick look in Hepworth's Arcade in the old town at some vinyl records before home for a cuppa, the first time John has visited my new home. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The kitchen I decorated with Linda is finished bar putting a shelf up and we did rather a good job, me being a first time wallpaperer! The bedrooms next, mostly painting this time but some papering is still required - I'm an expert now! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I was very disturbed to watch the news about the Germanwings plane and the reason for its demise. This will worry a lot of people who are nervous about flying. My thoughts and prayers are with the deceased, their families and friends and the rescuers who have the thankless task of recovery. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chat soon</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ta-ra</span>Rarelesserspottedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15865928245970626612noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083684017954117107.post-38034579116268651032015-03-11T18:40:00.001+00:002015-03-11T18:41:37.563+00:00Decorated Man<p dir="ltr">We've just returned from hospital today and following excellent and rapid treatment on the NHS, a lump in my partner's breast has proved nothing and she's been given the all clear. An end to a stressful time assisted by positive thinking and reassurance from the spirit world.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I've never decorated in my life to be honest. I've slapped a bit of paint about now and then, nothing too artistic and I wouldn't describe that as decorating as such.</p>
<p dir="ltr">However I now have the distinction, being a late fifty something year old Yorkshire man to have hung my first roll of wallpaper. Hold the front page! In my temporary new home, we needed to paper the kitchen. It is anaglypta so no pattern so it was not too dificult to put on the wall, the bubbles were a bit of a bugger, but they went up after some practice and cutting round the light switches and windows was tricky, but it got done and looks pretty decent. Thank you Linda for teaching and being patient.</p>
<p dir="ltr">My mother was a very good decorator , she doesn't do it now and my uncle Les is an exceptional decorator so I have seen it done before and I guess it helped. There's a bit more papering to do and this time with a pattern of sorts and plenty of emulsion to slop about so I'll be happy with that.</p>
<p dir="ltr">My grandfather, my mother's dad who is long deceased, a Londoner and a First World War veteran used to sing for me when I was a child the following song "When Father Papered the Parlour," and here is the chorus:</p>
<p dir="ltr">When Father papered the parlour<br>
You couldn't see Pa for paste<br>
Dabbing it here and dabbing it there<br>
There was paste and paper everywhere<br>
Mother was stuck to the ceiling<br>
And the kids were stuck to the floor<br>
You never saw such a bloomin' family <br>
So stuck up before</p>
<p dir="ltr">Penned in 1911, you have to hear it to appreciate it. </p>
<p dir="ltr">We've been to the cinema recently to see the Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, the sequel and for a change, the sequel is as good as the original. British film at its very very best. It also shows what a wonderful rich cultural country India is.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Take care</p>
<p dir="ltr">Chat soon</p>
<p dir="ltr">Ta-ra.</p>
Rarelesserspottedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15865928245970626612noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083684017954117107.post-34589030655151581182015-03-01T22:35:00.001+00:002015-03-01T22:35:52.315+00:00Paper Man<p dir="ltr">I am lucky I guess that when I go to the local BBC radio station to do the Sunday paper review,  am allowed to indulge myself with the range of stories I can choose in the many national Sunday papers. It's not a daunting task, you dont even have to have a great knowledge of the subject matter, although it helps to have a point of view - it's just like having a friendly chat with a mate. </p>
<p dir="ltr">The stories I chose were not from the depressing political and Middle Eastern scenarios that are playing large at the moment - I have to consider the interests of a wide more local audience. These are the stories I chose:</p>
<p dir="ltr">The Observer - Here comes the Brits: New acting talent gets its chance in Game of Thrones. <br>
This is the story of new talent being given a chance alongside established actors in this HBO series.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sunday Mirror - 8M A&E patients ought to have seen a GP.<br>
A self explanatory story.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sunday Express - UK is set to spend more on [foreign] aid than our armed forces.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sunday Telegraph - Our heroines of the Afghan battlefield.<br>
Following on from the award of the VC, this highlights two females, one a soldier and one an airwoman who have displayed extraordinary courage in the face of enemy fire.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sunday Times - Menopause costs women jobs, warns jobs tzar.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sunday People - Spock star Nimoy to be laid to rest in LA </p>
<p dir="ltr">Hope you have a great week</p>
<p dir="ltr">Chat soon</p>
<p dir="ltr">Ta ra</p>
Rarelesserspottedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15865928245970626612noreply@blogger.com1Hull, Hull53.74567 -0.3367413tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083684017954117107.post-59159629198871537302015-02-28T11:49:00.001+00:002015-02-28T11:57:13.412+00:00A Few Weeks Short of a Year<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I feel like a young person who's taken a year put of education to see the world, have new experiences, broaden the mind and generally grow up and find ones self.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Just a few weeks to the year since my last blog and the year out has seen many changes, both in me and life in general. Following my separation in December 2013, that process of formal separation in almost complete although for bizarre pension rules reasons, I can't get divorced for the next 5 years or so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This doesn't stop life from moving on again at last after a hiatus in many of my activities including this blog, I am marching forward again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have a new partner, Linda to whom I am tremendously grateful for her support and love - she's the most generous, big hearted person in the world and we are very happy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My spiritual life in terms of practising overtly has been on hold, but I am now attending a regular spiritual circle again, (not run by me) and finding myself reconnecting with my practises.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The year has seen a lovely holiday in Cyprus, the first time I have ever been and it won't be the last time I go either which was a much needed break.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aphrodite's rock in Cyprus, her alleged birthplace, although disputed by other places</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The people and the country are beautiful with millennia of documented and archaeological history to feast upon and of course, the sun has got a little bit to do with it too! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another long weekend in Harrogate in North Yorkshie recently was an extraordinary journey in so many ways and I'm going to write about that, so important was it - watch out for that one. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My lady Linda had a calf muscle tear which was fairly debilitating in the last summer and I moved in to look after her and I've been here ever since and plans to secure our future together are well under way. Marvellous how it all comes together but as you know, nothing is a coincidence, it all happens for a reason. She's fine now and as I write this, she's having a reflexology therapy which she loves and dreamy music is filtering through from the other room!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I still haven't got very good access to the Internet, so this blog is being written in the morning whilst the dongle is still working and getting a signal and that's simply because my computer has no wi-fi access - I'll need a new one shortly I think. I've taken lots of pictures this year and I'm starting to put a few on here again. I miss that. I have a tablet now though and as far as I can tell, I can write on my blog from there using wi-fi. Technological wizard that I am - NOT!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have moved away from the East Riding of Yorkshire and am now in the City of Hull just four miles from my old home although the countryside is literally just down the road. It's certainly different living in a town, noisier, more untidy, busier, more people, more cars but there are advantages too: access to facilities, less feeling isolated and a walk away from work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chat soon</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ta ra </span>Rarelesserspottedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15865928245970626612noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083684017954117107.post-35330905289399045062014-03-31T12:57:00.000+01:002014-03-31T12:57:12.152+01:00It's What's in your Soul that Counts<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I’ve been fortunate to have had a week off work taking a
break. The weather has been reasonably kind for the time of year and it’s been
nice to see the daffodils out and spring manifesting itself in so many ways not
least of which people starting to feel better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I’ve been helping a friend decorate her flat. Now I am not a
decorator. Never have been, but I can slosh some paint around and I am an
average DIY-er so I can put things on walls and a proud moment came after I laid
a vinyl floor and it looked spot on. I took a bit of a methodical approach to
this never-before-done task and it turned out well. My knees however did
suffer!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">However after three solid days, I’d had enough. I paid a
visit to York with my friend Linda and went to Hornsea, just on the East
Yorkshire coast to the Freeport, a small shopping centre on the site of the
former Hornsea Pottery site.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have achieved some good things this week and that includes
spending a small budget on a new set of clothes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On Saturday night I went to see medium Derek Acorah do a
demonstration at the beautiful small Plowright Theatre in Scunthorpe which is
in Northern Lincolnshire, a town famous for its steelworks and less famous for
its football team.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My followers will know I am a psychic medium of small skill
however, seeing someone with big skill is always interesting. Mr Acorah is a
fairly ordinary bloke. A family man with a background as a professional
footballer a few years ago, he has had a rocky ride professionally as a medium
because of his association with a television programme doing psychic
investigations. I think, not to put too fine a point on it, lost his way a
little from an outsider’s perspective and perhaps his reputation among some
suffered as a result.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">However, above all, Derek is just a decent, hard-working, nice
man who is now going back to what he does best, plying his trade doing public demonstrations
to small audiences (the Plowright has about 500 seats) as a very good journeyman medium.
My assessment of the demonstration is that he gave audience members a lot of
evidence about them that he could not have possibly guessed through cold
reading, cheating or any other method and this came through having been
delivered with compassion to those he gave readings for along with is gentle
humour, occasionally laughing at himself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have been to many mediumship demonstrations over the years
and I have never had a message from spirit publicly. Frankly, there are more
people that need compassion and hope and their faith restored than I.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">None the less, it made me think about my faith again as experiences
often lead me to do. I don’t think my faith can be found with a label or readily
pulled off the shelf. I guess that my idea of a divine being is unlike most people,
other than a few Spiritualists perhaps because the thing is, it’s personal to
me, to my personality, my experiences and how I can cope with the logical side
of modern day life and living as well as the less tangible but equally as
powerful spiritual way of life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The problem in the UK however is that the current Government
doesn’t want too many people thinking for themselves and esoteric subjects are becoming
isolated and frowned upon. EU legislation states apparently that mediums and
psychics must always tell their client or audience that their work is for
entertainment purposes only. My insurers tell me that this is what I have to do
when I work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is a gross insult and a slap in the face to me personally
as it attacks my faith by minimising it and implying it that it is a sham to titillate
audiences with. This upsets me deeply.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course there have been mediums and psychics who have been
fraudulent and taking advantage of unsuspecting and vulnerable people. This is
a despicable act and the law can deal with such people. Yes, the public deserve
protection. However, the idea that what I believe in in my heart is just
entertainment is abominable. The high churches across the globe despise
psychics and mediums for their faith and beliefs. Why because it challenges
that with which the grater populous of the world has been controlled and
brainwashed with for years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now let me say before you storm off in high dudgeon, that I wholly
respect an individual’s belief system no matter what that may be. You have one,
good for you. If you have faith, then join the club, so have I. What upsets me
is the establishment belief system that impresses itself upon people and uses
legislation to tell people what they can or can’t believe in and this of course
cuts across a whole swathe of beliefs, faiths, religions, cults etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For now what I would say without prolonging the argument is
believe in what you believe in, have faith because to have faith and belief is
the future, but leave others to believe in what they want to believe in. Some
faiths damage people, that’s what they set out to do, others do damage
unwittingly and indirectly as this blog will reveal in due course, but what’s
important is how you feel, how you conduct yourself in society and what lies
within your heart and soul.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So, on a lighter note, enjoy your week, look forward to
spring setting itself in in the weeks to come and make it a positive week too!
Smile</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chat soon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ta-ra.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Just a few remaining supports from a long derelict jetty, sentinels to times past</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I had the opportunity the other weekend while the sun shone
to spend some quality time with my middle son John as he comes home to visit
now and then. We have a love to chat about eclectic subjects and we have a love
of history and photography and what can be done that’s different with this
wonderful media.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Son John taking a photo of me taking a photo of him - nicely framed - except someone's stolen the metal frame for scrap!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I’m not arty or anything, but I try not to be a simple
snapper either. I suppose I am fortunate to live in a pleasant part of the UK next
to the countryside in East Yorkshire and the city/urban life too, so there is a
bit of choice and a bit of history to get my teeth into as you have discovered on
here if you are a regular reader.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The dock basin, all silted now with the lock head at the top.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Living close to one of the countries busiest and dramatic
rivers, the Humber helps to provide decent subjects and there are some disused
docks and dock buildings from yesteryear that have not been developed which,
for the photographer and the feral pigeon is fine, although I have to say that
the more derelict the buildings get that surround the docks the worse it starts
to look and does nothing for image of the area either. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One of the many derelict buildings on St Andrew's Quay, once a home to a proud and busy shipping company (a friend's mother cleaned the boadroom there 50 years ago and grand inside it was!) Modern Hull docks and a ferry in the distance</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If my memory serves me right there are eleven dock of
various kinds not including dry docks and piers etc., in Hull which are either
in use, derelict or filled in but nonetheless are still easily recognisable as
docks. Perhaps this is testament to the city of Hull’s place in the import/export
trade going back to the 13<sup>th</sup> century. With Hull being the only port
allowed in Yorkshire to import and export legitimate goods, wine and wool became
its staple business.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fisherman's line caught on this pillar</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Trade in cloth, lead, iron, tar, fish,
whaling etc., meant that the Haven containing riverside wharves (at the confluence of the river Hull and the
Humber) was just too small to cope plus of course the tides play havoc with the
trade so in 1773 the Dock Company was founded and docks started to be built and
the rest as they say, is history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So the derelict St Andrew’s Dock
was the subject of our pictures that day in beautiful sunshine and bitter wind.
Opened in 1883, it handled fish and Hessle Road, adjacent to the Dock was
renowned for its link to the fishing heritage of the port. It closed in 1975,
some of it was filled in and a retail park built upon it and the rest just
silted up and the buildings slowly ran to ruin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0ULmw7_1IHI/Uyg71rGW02I/AAAAAAAACOk/3TPvQ8KqQIQ/s1600/standrews2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0ULmw7_1IHI/Uyg71rGW02I/AAAAAAAACOk/3TPvQ8KqQIQ/s1600/standrews2.jpg" height="400" width="266" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In 2013, the charity 'St Andrew's
Dock Heritage Park Action Group' (STAND) selected a design for a memorial to
the 6,000 Hull trawler-men who lost their lives in the fishing industry, to be
sited next to the Humber at the dock entrance and although vitally important, it
looks a little lost tucked away between the lock gates and a derelict building.
I lost a Great Uncle, Stan, an engineer aboard the Hull trawler Ross Cleveland which
sank in 1968, so it does have meaning for me as one part of my family, my
father’s side come from the immediate area and had links to the fishing
industry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A great day, enjoy the pics for
what they are and enjoy the week ahead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chat soon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ta-ra</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My internet is now restored, albeit via a dongle in an area
that has poor reception and following two phone calls to my service provider
who admitted the local mast had a data reception fault on it, it is now working
to a reasonable if somewhat slow standard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Life is tootling on. I’ve just returned from a long weekend
away in the beautiful countryside of Northumbria. I’ve only ever been there
previously for work purposes and literally stayed for the day in Newcastle and
returned without seeing the city or the countryside. However, for the sake of
the need for relaxation, I decided to stay in the countryside at a place call
Lowick half way between Berwick upon Tweed and Alnwick and adjacent to Holy
Island.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The countryside is indeed beautiful and not as rugged as I
imagined. The Cheviot Hills to the west were covered in snow and although the
weather was cold, I was lucky and got plenty of sun although showers were never
very far away and that did provide for some spectacular sky-scapes at times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On the first evening I went to see the causeway to Holy
Island and it was a shame because my itinerary did not allow for a visit to the
island itself. The area is alive with seabirds of every kind around the
causeway and as I arrived the tide was just going out allowing a few cars to
start to cross to and from the island.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On day two I travelled to Berwick upon Tweed for the morning,
English yet with a population of people with Scottish accents although
officially it is called north Northumbrian, a mix between a Northumbrian accent
and east Scottish accent.) . The town is lovely and in need of investment in
parts, but there was a bit to see, the beautiful river Tweed and the defensive
walls that surround it. Unfortunately the Barracks were closed for the season
as was the town hall. I never quite understand this because there are still
visitors, even in the depths of winter and early spring who would want access. I
once went to Whitby Abbey in February and found the same inconvenience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Berwick has ‘changed hands’ many times between the Scots and
English over the years and may even have been at war once with Russia. According
to Wikipedia, the story goes as follows: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“The story tells that since Berwick had changed hands
several times, it was traditionally regarded as a special, separate entity, and
some proclamations referred to "England, Scotland and the town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed". One such was the declaration of the Crimean War
against Russia in 1853, which Queen Victoria supposedly signed as
"Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, Ireland, Berwick-upon-Tweed and all
British Dominions". When the Treaty of Paris (1856) was signed to conclude
the war, "Berwick-upon-Tweed" was left out. This meant that,
supposedly, one of Britain's smallest towns was officially at war with one of
the world's largest powers – and the conflict extended by the lack of a peace
treaty for over a century.” Oh if only that were a true story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The afternoon was spent in Eyemouth just north of the border
in Scotland. This was a lovely little working port and again very quiet. There
were seals in the harbour and the people were friendly (no jokes about Scottish
independence please!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On the way back, a visit to Coldstream for a cuppa and the
site of the Battle of Flodden Fields in 1513 where there is an isolated and eerily
quiet memorial on a hillside to the dead in this last famous (military) battle
between the Scots and the English near a pretty but tiny village of Branxton.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The casualty figures are astounding with around 1,500
English dead and between 5,000 and 17,000 Scottish dead and James IV was killed
in the battle, becoming the last monarch from Britain to suffer such a death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The third day was spent travelling and between Lowick and
home there were short sightseeing visits to Bamburgh Castle, Seahouses, a
gorgeous little seaport south of Bamburgh and Durham as well as a flying visit to
the magnificent Antony Gormley statue of the Angel of the North.</span></div>
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Rarelesserspottedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15865928245970626612noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083684017954117107.post-47799954516121705532014-01-06T13:27:00.000+00:002014-01-06T13:27:10.880+00:00Whether or Weather <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The New Year is well underway and I hope you have a fantastic one - I guess it's what we make of it isn't it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Depending where you are reading this from, if you speak or read English, you are almost certainly speaking your own personal brand of this lovely but complicated language. In the UK alone, regional variations, even local variations are very noticeable and of course when you meet a Scot or a Welsh person or someone with Irish roots, then the difference is palpable. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">However, it's not so much the basics of the language, its the use of the words in different contexts that I have the most fun with. Here's an example.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Walking back from the village this morning, I walked down the snicket next to the church. In truth, this is just a path bordered by hedges that runs alongside the church. This description is used locally, I have heard it elsewhere however. Another name is a ginnel, a passage, cut-through or, less accurately a ten-foot or an eight-foot. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We have ten-foots too. No that's not a grammatical error, the ten-foot is the 'road' that runs behind our houses to allow services access that isn't accessible by the public at large as a through way. Why ten-foot? Because the standard is that it's ten foot wide in this part of the country. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What is your local name for your 'snickets?'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I noticed that the flag of St George is flying today from the church flagpole. Arguments aside about the potential offensive use of the flag, I wondered why the flag was being flown. My brief research tells me that the flag is able to be flown as the national flag of England (not the UK) any day of the year although in reality, the flag is generally flown from churches on special days. The flag dates back to 1348 as the official flag although an earlier use is recorded in 1300 but it hadn't been adopted as the official flag by then. Vexillology is the study of flags and associated emblems - a fact for the quiz buff!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Unfortunately neither the Government website nor the churches give the reason for the flag flying, perhaps they've just left it there from Christmas and New Year's celebrations. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The USA are suffering bad weather at the moment which is being extensively reported here in the UK. I wish anyone living there good luck as temperatures of minus 50 - 60 degrees Fahrenheit are being reported. Traditionally, although I don't think it's strictly true, that whatever weather America has, we get it here two weeks later. The jet stream is very active and strong at the moment and the west to east airflow from the US to Europe is directly over the UK at the moment. I think a few people are worried.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our current weather brought in from the Atlantic is causing much grief and upset to folk in the UK, particularly on the west coast as strong winds and high spring tides combine to cause local flooding and all the horror that comes with that. Stupidly, people are going to the coasts to observe the weather in dangerous locations and putting themselves and their children in some cases at risk. Whilst it looks spectacular when a massive wave crashes over a sea wall, it carried the risk of serious injury or death and we have seen a number of deaths caused by such activity lately. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My access to the Internet is severely limited at the moment for a number of reasons I won't bore you with, but it does cause problems uploading photographs which will be lower quality in size terms than usual for which I apologise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ta-ra.</span>Rarelesserspottedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15865928245970626612noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083684017954117107.post-16765793632109134382013-12-23T09:41:00.001+00:002013-12-23T19:57:43.755+00:00Almost Here<p dir="ltr">Christmas is all but upon us.  For those that celebrate it,  there is much to take us away from the routine of 'normal' living.  </p>
<p dir="ltr">The preparations can start many months in advance and inevitably come at a cost.  Yet for most,  the time,  cost and effort is worth every bit the doing on the basis of the positive time it can bring in the coming together of families and friends. Traditions vary from family to family,  town to town,  country to country,  so mine will be different to anyone else's.  </p>
<p dir="ltr">I guess my early memories of Christmas living in an old Victorian three storey house with frost on the inside of the windows in winter (no double glazing or central heating) are seen through rose tinted glasses.  </p>
<p dir="ltr">Christmas days were spent in the front room which wasn't used for the rest of the year. A coal fire roared, a real Christmas tree stood as tall as the 10 feet high ceiling, toast was prepared on the fire using a toasting fork my dad made and Chestnuts on a pan under the red hot coals tasted gorgeous. The extended family often visited, Turkey was always the order of the day (more than once cooked upside down) and the Queen's speech always reigned after the meal. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Evenings were taken up with games and special television treats like Morecambe and Wise with their brave celebrity guests appearing in Ernie's plays. It sounds opulent and idyllic, in truth, both my parents had to work hard to maintain that draughty old house and support me and my grandparents who lived with us. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I do understand why people are concerned about the commercialism of Christmas. Every year I hear the awareness campaign by many to remember the true meaning of Christmas. However it does seem that our younger children do get this education at school. Nativities are done and carols are still sung, not just number one Christmas chart hits. The secret is the balance between commercialism which helps maintain the expectations of a lot of people and the origins of Christmas and it's true meaning. </p>
<p dir="ltr">What us it's true meaning? Although the time and date of Christ's birth is uncertain to say the least, the celebration of his birth is a catalyst for something greater. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Charles Docking wrote several different works around Christmas including the most famous Christmas Carol, and the story's message is one of the best examples of what we should aspire to. I've written many times about neighbourliness and good citizenship in thus blog. I don't think it takes anything else to be honest. The unsolicited good deed, the kind thought, the "thank you", going the extra step for someone else's sake. </p>
<p dir="ltr">On the television in the background while I write this is Oscar Wilde's Canterville Ghost. I've never read the book, but the kindness and sacrifice of the young girl to seek out the story of the restless haunting ghost and allow him to seek eternal rest by putting her own safety at risk is a human compassionate thing to do. </p>
<p dir="ltr">So whatever he Christmas period holds for you, I hope you enjoy the time whether working or not, whether you are with your family or not, I hope love and peace knocks on your door and benevolence shakes you by the hand. </p>
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Rarelesserspottedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15865928245970626612noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083684017954117107.post-1967299520252593532013-12-09T18:09:00.001+00:002013-12-09T18:09:25.162+00:00All Change<p dir="ltr">I decided I needed to exercise, so on my day off, I used the morning to walk around my childhood village of Cottingham. </p>
<p dir="ltr">The day was chilly but bright and calm, but I got wrapped up and set off at a reasonable pace. Cottingham is a pleasant and friendly place a couple of miles north of Hull and several people who I passed wished me a good morning. <br>
I walked along Priory Road, a country road between Cottingham and Hull. A single magpie flew across my path and I saluted it, although I'm not sure what the motorists though as they passed me, but at least I didn't spit and turn around like some do. There were many horses busily grazing in the fields, some with horse blankets, some without. "Do not feed the horses, they bite" signs are abundant on the ranch fencing. A bunch of pretty plastic red roses were tied to an elder tree, in tribute to a loved one killed in a road traffic collision there some years back. </p>
<p dir="ltr">My mobile phone exercise application informed me I'd walked a mile, so I turned round and headed back and into the village centre. A quick coffee and a couple of texts and I meandered through the east of the village. Childhood memories came flooding back, Hallgate where I lived looks familiar but in truth, everything has changed. </p>
<p dir="ltr">The old fashioned butchers which had sawdust on the floor and half cows hanging from the ceiling is now a deli. Cottages are now a pub. The long demolished vicarage is an old folks home. I passed by St Marys church, largely unchanged and along the snicket passed the tiny village hall, the charity cottage bequeathed to the village in the 1700s and the even smaller church hall. Another cottage along the snicket, now restored and modernised was where I used to buy free range eggs as a child. The chickens no longer roam the area. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Continuing along Hallgate, I passed my childhood home which now has a blue plaque to recognise Jacob Bronowski, humanist, scientist and broadcaster (The Ascent of Man) who lived there in 1942. Rounding the corner into Beck Bank, the huge gothic and dark house called Cherry Garth has gone and now replaced by a modern set of flats with the same name. The original house was so large, it had a ballroom at the back which is where I used to rehearse when I belonged to the Cottingham Dramatic Society (CDS). </p>
<p dir="ltr">The large wide beck which carried water from Cottingham to Hull is all covered in and hides where we used to play as kids. A tiny park at the end of the road which was really just a patch of grass and a few trees is still there. My adventurous and country brought up dad used to climb to the top of the chestnut trees hunting for conkers for me. </p>
<p dir="ltr">So, 2.5 miles walked, fresh air and an enjoyable experience starts off what I hope will be a positive and pleasant week. </p>
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Rarelesserspottedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15865928245970626612noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083684017954117107.post-10049803568101640522013-12-06T17:45:00.001+00:002013-12-06T17:45:26.249+00:00"Dodged a Bullet"<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I've posted three pictures I have taken this last week or so as the mellow late autumn weather gave us some lovely entertainment with its spectacular sunsets and early morning views across the countryside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is in stark contrast to the weather we have experienced in the UK on Thursday 5th December 2013 which brought devastating storm force winds and surge tides last night across most of the North Sea and parts of some other coasts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Because I am on rising ground to the Wolds, the surge waters did not affect me and the high winds seemed to have caused little substantial damage, I was lucky. Others have not been so. In the village where I live, properties on the front of the Humber have been badly flooded by unprecedented high tides accompanied by a surge over and above the tide caused by storm winds and low pressure down the east coast of the country pushed water over barriers and embankments which would at any other time cope admirably.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Major roads into Hull which run parallel to the Humber were washed out, city centre streets in Hull were under water resulting in much disruption, traffic chaos and of course deep upsetment to individuals whose property has been devastated by muddy, foul water. Other areas around the Humber Basin in Lincolnshire too were badly affected with whole villages being evacuated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Unlike the rains that affected most people in this area in 2007, this was different and more unsettling. This was mother nature at her most forceful and there was nothing anyone could do. The power of the sea is unrivalled. In recent years, flood defences have improved in most places and without this, the effects would have been multiplied many times over.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But it could have been worse. The phrase "dodged a bullet" was coined by a local BBC radio Humberside presenter this morning who rightly observed that the effects were close to having been a national disaster were it not for the work of the emergency services and local agencies and the public's good spirit. A second predicted damaging tide this morning did not produce any more flooding thank goodness. BBC provided local information on the radio that was both useful and the reporting was powerful and frightening at the same time - but at least the public were informed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ta-ra</span>Rarelesserspottedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15865928245970626612noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083684017954117107.post-48042228530190512182013-11-22T12:42:00.002+00:002013-11-22T12:42:20.257+00:00Hull, City of Culture 2017 - Don't Miss the Boat<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I hope you are getting used to the weather if you are in the UK, some regular ground frosts now appearing and icy windscreens to clear in a morning. On the flip side, it's certainly invigorating to go for a walk in this wintry sunshine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There have been some interesting developments locally in so far as the neighbouring town of Kingston upon Hull is concerned, it's been chosen as the City of Culture 2017.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I am absolutely delighted for the city. The local use of social media to promote the City has been truly stunning when you look at the statistics compared to the other cities in the race. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There have been, and are, so many detractors, whingers, moaners, bad mouthing ignorant miserable... people (for want of a better word) who delight in their own negativity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And yet, they are so short sighted not to realise that the city is now going to start to develop a better feeling about itself and whilst Government does not put any cash into the initiative, inward investment and benefits through additional visitors and publicity through events for example will make the city feel much better about itself and enable it to lift itself out of the doldrums. Jobs and cash will come as a result.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Someone said Hull is a city, "coming out of the darkness," and that is possibly true. I would rather like to think it's been in a bit of a twilight. There are so many positives and yet so many negatives which has created that sense of stalemate for so long. I'm not going to make a case for the positives the city has nor discuss the negatives because no city is perfect, balanced and wholly positive. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">None the less - there is an opportunity now to move forward with grace and dignity and with a positive frame of mind. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The armchair critics who sit on their backsides and moan all day long and use the anonymity of the net to be destructive either need to put up or shut up now. Contribute or bugger off, I don't want to hear you any more. Use your freedom of speech to talk to the mirror - you just love to hear yourself speak.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The City Council, in dire difficulties due to Government cuts in public spending now needs to be supportive and innovative to encourage its citizenry and visitors to make 2017 and the run up to it something to remember and leave a positive lasting legacy to move this city finally into the 21st century.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Over the few years I've been doing this blog, you will have hopefully seen some sense of balance about the place near where I live and where I have worked all my adult life barring four years. It is both an interesting place to live, work and to spend leisure time and it's been an interesting journey watching it slowly and painfully rise out of the rubble of the second World War.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When I started to work in the city in 1973, there were still bomb damaged building sites and gaps in streets where houses had been demolished. No more thank goodness. The strides forward made have been tremendous, but now the time has come to press the accelerator firmly to the floor and drive us all, neighbours, inhabitants and visitors toward greater things. Time and tide waits for no-man, start working at making life better for this wonderful old city now or miss the boat for ever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chat soon</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ta-ra</span>Rarelesserspottedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15865928245970626612noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083684017954117107.post-63944925818311871102013-11-17T15:58:00.001+00:002013-11-17T15:58:09.884+00:00What the Papers Say<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-N7ixhlDefL0/UojmhJMP0sI/AAAAAAAACKc/wVCZ46T0lZA/s1600/rusheswintersun.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-N7ixhlDefL0/UojmhJMP0sI/AAAAAAAACKc/wVCZ46T0lZA/s400/rusheswintersun.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The first real signs of winter may be coming to the UK next week around Tuesday with more widespread snow. The Scottish highlands, as would be expected have already had some - the rest of us are getting some of our own. Oh joy and it's still only November; having said that, snow here at this time of the year is not as rare as people think.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I was fortunate enough to be invited to review the Sunday papers on <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radiohumberside" target="_blank">BBC Radio Humberside</a> this morning on Andy Comfort's Sunday Brunch from 10 am to midday. It's something I am invited to so occasionally and it's thoroughly enjoyable. Andy is a wonderful host and professional presenter who engenders a relaxed atmosphere mixed with great music and a bit of fun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The secret to reviewing papers is picking a story about which you are interested - not necessarily knowledgeable about, and treat the whole thing like a chat with a mate over a cuppa. Pick a mix of serious and off beat stories of broad interest as possible. Give a precis of the story, give an opinion if you have one and don't swear! I always go fairly early to give myself plenty of time to read the eight or nine papers that are presented to me and I scan them all from front to back looking for headlines and stories that people may be interested in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have no idea what the demographics are of the audience to this station nowadays, but they are not at all young I guess, but they are knowledgeable about music and local issues and are very loyal listeners. The radio station recently won the Sony <a href="http://www.radioacademyawards.org/winners/index.cfm?winners_year=2013&winners_award_group_id=5&winners_award_category_id=3" target="_blank">Radio Station of the Year</a> (300K to 1M listeners) award. No mean feat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My stories today were:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sunday Telegraph - Children in Need</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">£31 million raised for good causes and although I never saw it, the writer comments that it was one of the best Children in Need BBC shows she had seen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Independent on Sunday - Superbugs</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This was a disturbing story based on a report in the Lancet that we as a race of people facing having infections which are resistant to antibiotics because we use them too much. An unnamed doctor is quoted as saying the public and doctors need educating - "...just because you're ill, do you need a pill?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sunday Times - Pricier Christmas menus in the home</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Based on 15 items average price across four supermarkets, some items have gone up 125% over last years prices and the 15 items in total have gone up 17%. Higher animal feed and imports as well as a lack of supermarket promotions are blamed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mail on Sunday - Stamp of honour for literary giant Trollope</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anthony Trollope is to be honoured with a set of stamps to commemorate him. This literary giant also had local East Yorkshire connections because he worked for the Post Office in Hull for a short while and initiated a failed bid to become an MP in the 1860s for Beverley, when the campaign he fought in was riddled with corruption and it was investigated. He was also responsible for the introduction of the Post Box in the UK. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sunday People - Jimmy Greaves top 50 all time footballers</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This famous footballer rated John Charles as his all time number one footballer who in 1957 was sold to Juventus by Leeds United, one of the first foreign transfers, for the princely and record sum of £62,000. George Best, Booby Moore, Bobby Charlton and Stanley Matthews also appeared in his top five. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sunday Express - Doctor Who's 50th anniversary</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The paper listed all of the Doctors and a brief history of each although they forgot to name Peter Cushing as the Doctor in two films.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A bit of fun to lighten a Sunday followed by a lovely lunch with a friend. Christmas card writing tonight and perhaps wrapping a couple of presents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chat soon</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ta-ra.</span>Rarelesserspottedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15865928245970626612noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083684017954117107.post-51206117258239720722013-11-10T21:12:00.000+00:002013-11-10T21:12:02.113+00:00Ladybird, Ladybird Fly Away Home<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As part of a memorial weekend here in the UK, centred around Remembrance Sunday I had occasion to accompany a friend today to the cemetery where her family are buried. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chanterlands Avenue Cemetery in Hull also known as the Western Cemetery opened in 1889 and was privately run by the Hull General Cemetery Company until 1972 when it
closed for burials and the council took over its maintenance. I understand burials still take place there but only in family graves where plots have been previously paid for.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The cemerary has one 'famous' burial there and being Remembrance Weekend it is very apt, John Cunningham who died in 1941 was a British Victoria Cross War Medal Recipient. He served as a Private in
the 12th Battalion of The East Yorkshire Regiment. He was awarded his
Medal for service at Hebuterne, Somme, France, on November 13, 1916.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The place is large, sprawling and quiet with huge trees and a little wildlife such as squirrels. It's maintenance can be best described as a little shabby, but acceptable as far as it goes for a Victorian cemetery. There is too much subsidence of graves and memorial stones and the pathways are unclear, being covered in leaf. But at least it's locked on a night and surrounded by a substantial fencing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Imagine my surprise when getting back into the car to see this collection of ladybirds and their larva situated on the corner of a sandstone grave memorial. Ladybirds are the family Coccinellidae - of small beetles. In the US, you like to call them ladybugs I understand.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ladybirds and their larva on a Hull gravestone 10 November 2013, about 1.15 pm</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Although today was bitterly cold, just 6 degrees Celsius at midday, the sun was bright and the sky clear, out of the breeze, it was quite warm. These ladybirds were sunning themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As part of a series of popular songs about ladybirds, this traditional rhyme (and there are many variations) was penned in English in 1744, and to be honest, I never understood it as a kid, it seemed a little macabre to say the least:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i>Ladybird, ladybird fly away home,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i>Your house is on fire and your children are gone,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i>All except one,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i>And her name is Ann,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i>And she hid under the baking pan.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well the explanations seems to go something like this: It's very unlucky to kill a ladybird. So, in order not to make a mistake and accidentally kill one, you were supposed to sing this verse to it and it would fly away home, presumably to look for survivors and check the insurance policy! But it would fly away, safe to continue its life for another day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another variation is if a ladybird lands on you, you sing the verse and when it flies away, you make a wish and it will come true, a reward for saving its life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I hope if you are in the northern hemisphere, you are protecting yourself against the cold, winter is on its way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chat soon</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ta-ra</span>Rarelesserspottedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15865928245970626612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083684017954117107.post-41590371324346949532013-11-10T20:18:00.004+00:002013-11-10T20:18:41.248+00:00Lest We Forget<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<dl><dd><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">11th November, 11 am GMT - a couple of minutes silence is the least we can do to remember those fallen in war and conflict to protect the innocent, preserve democracy and create proper justice. Put the political arguements aside for just two minutes as a sign of respect.<i><br /></i></span></dd><dd><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i> </i></span></dd><dd><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:</i></span></dd><dd><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.</i></span></dd><dd><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>At the going down of the sun and in the morning,</i></span></dd><dd><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>We will remember them.</i></span></dd><dd><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i> </i></span></dd><dd><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Extract from The "Ode of Remembrance" taken from Laurence Binyon's poem, "For the Fallen," 1914</span></dd><dd><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></dd><dd><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chat soon</span></dd><dd><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></dd><dd><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ta-ra</span></dd></dl>
Rarelesserspottedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15865928245970626612noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083684017954117107.post-14822846635829608992013-10-28T19:59:00.002+00:002013-10-28T19:59:32.269+00:00Patron Saint of the Impossible<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Today is my 527th blog. I'm not sure why I mention it to be honest - it's an odd number (literally).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">However, most importantly, severe European windstorm 'Jude' has come and gone through East Yorkshire with a bit of a whimper, dropping a lot of water but little if any wind at all. However, in the south of the UK tonight, a quarter of a million homes are without electricity and lives have been lost and my thoughts are with those deceased and their families and all those that have suffered and continue to suffer.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">St Jude the Apostle by Anthonis Van Dyke, painted c1619/1621</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Although no-one knows quite who named the storm, they don't normally have names here, St Jude's feast day is today, 28th October in the West, on the day the storm was predicted to land. Jude, not to be confused with Judas, alleged betrayer of Jesus was one of the 12 disciples. He is the patron saint of lost causes, desperate situations and hospitals. Some say he might be the same Jude the brother of Jesus, but I wouldn't know not being a scholar of the Bible nor knowing much about it. How very apt that the storm be named after him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">According to Wikipedia, St. Bridget of Sweden and St. Bernard (not the dog) had visions from God asking each
to accept St. Jude as 'The Patron Saint of the Impossible'. He is venerated across a number of different religions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The year 527 was 527 in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars, the letter of which we still follow today for our western dating system. Apparently the Germanic tribes called the Saxons invaded a bit of the southern half of the UK just north of the River Thames and they founded the Kingdom of Essex, now just a county of Essex, under King Aescwine. Along with the Angles, other German peoples who occupied parts of England after the Romans lost power they and the Saxons were eventually to create Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms leading the the name 'England.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So, quite an important year in the history of the UK although sadly virtually nothing is known about Aescwine, the guy at the top.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another use of 527 (apart from being the result of 17 x 31) comes from the United States. A 527 group is created primarily to influence the selection, nomination, election, appointment or defeat of candidates to federal, state or local public office. All sounds a bit conspiratorial to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Interestingly 527 belongs as a trademark to Levi's Jeans and in the words of their marketing gurus: <i><b>The perfect everyday boot cut, this jean sits low on the waist and runs straight through the leg.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I've never looked good in jeans!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Finally, United Airlines flight 527 from Hollywood International, California landed a short time ago at the time of writing at Newark Liberty International Airport (the countries oldest airport), which took the twin-jet A320 Airbus just 2 hours 22 minutes for an average fare of just $174.02 (£179.89 or €126.24). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is a distance of 2,786 miles which would take you 40 hours to drive at state speed limits at a cost to an average sized car in fuel around $286 worked out at a fuel efficiency of 35.5 miles to a US gallon and costing just $3.65 per gallon on the West Coast. Therefore it's cheaper by plane by over £100 dollars and no overnight stop to pay for.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">By the way - US petrol cost an equivalent of 50 pence a litre today, compared with today's UK cost of an average of £1.30 a litre around where I live.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hey - for someone who is poor at maths, that's not bad but please don't check it - it's probably wrong although the research was fun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chat soon</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ta-ra</span>Rarelesserspottedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15865928245970626612noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083684017954117107.post-43581170612113943942013-10-27T23:23:00.001+00:002013-10-28T18:40:52.635+00:00Day in the Museums<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The City of Kingston upon Hull (to use its Sunday name) has much in the way of history with activity going back for certain to the thirteenth century. Its connection with the sea through its exports and imports of salt, wine, wool, whaling and fishing amongst many other commodities make this a rich place for history to shine through with those influences into the modern city it is today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I took advantage of a day off and took a friend Linda to just two of the many museums and exhibits in Hull - The Wilberforce Museum and the Street Life Museum, both on the historic High Street in Hull, one of the oldest and once the busiest part of the town. Sadly no longer does it have the kudos it once had when it had busy wharves, shipping and trading offices, homes of the wealthy and bustling inns and hostelries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The cobbled street remains and upon it is the Wilberforce Museum. This is the original birth place and home of William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833), to whom the world can be rightly proud to one of the movers of the abolition of slavery, although if you visit the museum in Liverpool Albert Dock, he hardly gets a mention. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The house is in a good state of repair having been built in the 1600s and despite bomb damage during the war, the house retains much of the original features and includes a garden backing onto the River Hull in which the visitor can relax. The entry is free as with all the Hull museums but the visit was tinged with slight disappointment. If you are a first time visitor, the new style museum masks the house with dozens and dozens of information boards and precious few exhibits. You may like that and indeed it is very interesting and informative.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A beautifully restored fireplace with a placard in front of the focal point - the equipment used to hold the cooking pots! GET RID OF THE PLACARD Mr or Mrs Curator.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">However as a child, I visited the museum and the artifacts of slavery, Wilberforce's office and bedroom were fully furnished and kitted out - all that has long gone and with it the atmosphere of what was once a family home. That's a real shame. Is it worth a visit? It certainly is, but get your reading glasses out and be careful not to miss many of the original features of the house, almost all overshadowed by the plethora of written information. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Next door is the more modern Street Life Museum and this, ladies and gentlemen, is a gem. You don't have to come from Hull or the environs to appreciate this feast of old vehicles of every sort, trams, buses, cars, a bicycle workshop, mock ups of real life size shops that actually existed, a refurbished signal box from my home village of Cottingham, a railway crossing to name but a just few of the exhibits, a lot of which you can get on and experience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is a must see and again it is free entry with very helpful guides and members of staff. This isn't a squeaky clean - don't make a noise type of place - its fun and informative and its hands on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So if you have a few hours to spare one wintry day now the nights are drawing in - go pay a visit and if you go by car, park in a multi-storey near by (on street parking is only two hours) and walk to the museums in just five minutes. There are plenty of cafes in the old town just a couple of hundred yards away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chat soon</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ta-ra</span>Rarelesserspottedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15865928245970626612noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083684017954117107.post-27643580344202335932013-10-13T21:10:00.001+01:002013-10-13T21:10:37.337+01:00Change Available Here<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The weather here in East Yorkshire has certainly turned autumnal these past couple of weeks and in the last few days, high winds from the north and east and quite a bit of rain has turned the days unpleasant to be out in. Even yesterday at 10.30 am, the street light was on it was that dull. It's hard to come to terms with after such a pleasant summer. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But as the autumn comes, things change and it's not only the weather and nature that changes but the cycle of life in general provides changes for us all, some good, some not so good.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have been looking back at some Facebook postings that someone puts on my timeline of products from the 1980s that you may have used and some of them have been toys that my kids certainly had. It's quite nostalgic. In general, I love nostalgia, looking back at pleasant events, things, some places and people for example. Memories are by the most part okay but there are some things I'd rather not remember - often because they are embarrassing, or not too pleasant or not very positive as a whole. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One of my mantras is that you can't look back to the past <i>with regrets</i> because you can't change anything that happened back then. You can manipulate memories if you can get away with it, but the past is a series of electrical impulses in your mind recorded for posterity or placed there for, as we sometimes think, the sole purpose of making you shiver and cringe. You can't change it and it forms the basis of who you are today. The collective experiences, physical, mental and spiritual is you. Your attitude today is coloured by it, your actions now are often determined by it and that may be good in a protectionist sort of way if you want to avoid falling into the same trap as an unpleasant past event. By the same token, you may have already learned from the lesson and you use the past to move you forward at a pace. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I fully accept that experiences from the past can be debilitating in many, many ways. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But you can't change the past. You <i>can </i>do something about not letting the past hurt you, affect you or colour your future. I admire, applaud and support those that want to understand the past, understand why it is hurting them or affecting them now in a negative way and give themselves tools for making the future whole and more comfortable personally. Good on you - go for it.</span></span><br />
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I looked to my past and tried to understand how it makes me the person I
am today? Certainly because I wanted to understand why I am like I am and this helps to change things
about who I am today and hopefully in the future. I also accept I could do more in this area of my life.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have written on here in the past about the fact that we have supposedly free will and I think that is largely true within the constraints of the law of the land and it's also governed by your physical and mental abilities and your conscience. There is tonnes of philosophical writing on free will, lots of theories, scientific and personal and what it's based on, some of it I don't understand.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What I do understand is that you have the free will to change a lot of things - personal issues particularly but looking to the future, what changes can you make and agree in your own mind that it is okay to change? Looking after the 'me' factor is neither selfish nor is it unacceptable in the priorities of life. Do your children and family come first? Do you risk your life to save a drowning man despite your responsibilities? We would all like to say 'yes' to the first and the second question comes with qualifications for some of us - can you swim; is it highly dangerous; is there back up available to help you if you get into trouble; are you fit enough; do I care? I guess some people don't think twice about a rescue, their nature is one of love for a fellow suffering man - 'others come first'; others would consider their options first - they are not selfish, they are simply logical, pragmatic and realist. Neither option or attitude is right or wrong by the way, only you can judge when you are placed in that situation. It's too easy to judge others. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But you have the choice. The free will to decide and mainly at your own pace too. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So what is it you want to change? I want to change a whole host of things - some are conditioned things, some are cultural things, some are beliefs, both personal and professional, some physical, some emotional. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have decided to change something that doesn't exist: the future expected path of my life, which is determined by a whole host of things: traditional family expectations for older life, again - culture, probable physical health, financial circumstances, mental health, happiness, destiny and the list goes on.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why would I want to change what <i>might </i>be? That's a matter for me to know right now, it will become clear in time, but my past will not affect the future if I can help it. Why, just because certain things have happened in the past will it affect my future? I have likened this change to my expected path to having a clean piece of paper before me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The question I have only recently asked myself (recent = past two or three years) is, do I want to be a different 'me' in the future from the 'me' of the past? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am fed up with having my present and probably my future coloured and adjusted by my past. My plans for the future are fairly clear in my head for some parts of it and less clear for others. Do I use my experience of the past to make judgements? 'Yes' but only because my past is who I am today, but I don't normally go back if I can help it to the past to justify it using specific examples of why I will or I won't do this or that.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Is change easy? No, it is one of the most unsettling thing for a human being, to be drawn outside of a comfort zone. In other words, the unknown, which is what the future is. There is absolutely no certainty in the future and as the old saying goes (attr. to Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke the elder): 'the plan of action never survives first contact with the enemy.' So, this indicates that nothing ever goes smoothly, even though you can put down the best of plans - expect the unexpected. The other certainties about the future are the tax man and death, a quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin. I'm not sure about those either to be honest (but that's a different debate).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I think we should all use our free will to change what we don't like about ourselves and other things around us if that's possible, to protect as best we can our uncertain future. Don't sit back and accept what isn't acceptable any more. Small steps perhaps, an objective a day or a week. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I feel less inclined to be one of the flock of society's sheep any more. I want to be a different 'me'. When the time comes to make a decision or decisions, I <i>will </i>be a different person, already changed by my evolving thought patterns and attitudes, ready to be who I really am. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Do what I've done - get a friend (in my case), or friends who you can trust to help you in your quest for change and self understanding and perhaps most important of all - self belief.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">These are just personal thoughts, nothing academic and I guess that they can be easily criticised, but it's a point of view. What's yours?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chat soon</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ta-ra.</span></span>Rarelesserspottedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15865928245970626612noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083684017954117107.post-66340267591167618882013-09-27T14:19:00.000+01:002013-09-27T14:19:01.496+01:00Mist and Mellow Fruitfulness...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The last few days of September are drifting away - our autumn firmly upon us, "seasons of mist and mellow fruitfulness..." as pointed out by John Keats Esq. He's so right, the berries once more this year in masses in our hedgerows and gardens, fruit being dropped on the ground there's so much and the first mists arrived last week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The pictures below represent just seven of the different types of berries found in my back garden an hour ago. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I was minded to a conversation I had a week or so ago with a colleague at work about summer and when it starts and finishes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Where we are on the northern hemisphere of this planet, the meteorological autumn starts on the 1st of September, whilst those on the 'bottom half' of the world, it's their start of spring and it goes right through until the end of November. Gaelic traditions often consider autumn as August through to October.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But back to autumn or 'fall' if you are in America or Canada, we're a third through it already. Before the 16th century, this time of the year was known as 'harvest' until people started to learn to read and write and then we started to use the old French word <i>autumpne</i> which became <i>autumn</i> in due course.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I always thought 'fall' was a quaint word for autumn and my logic thought that it simply meant that it's when things started to fall off the trees, fruit and leaves etc., and in truth, it looks like that may be right with old Norse and German phrases being the likeliest candidates. We used to use it in Britain too apparently, but it gradually went out of use here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I guess my memories of my youth, sights, smells, occasions define what autumn means to me. I've already stated that berries and mists contribute, as does going to church with loads of food to donate to the old and needy in the community, home baked ornately decorated breads gracing the altar. In this part of the world, <a href="http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/portal/page?_pageid=221,388764&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL#" target="_blank">Hull Fair</a>, Europe's second largest travelling fair arrives in the second week of October, as nights draw in, the first frosty mists arrive and the leaves are on the ground. Horse-chestnuts, baked potatoes, warm stews.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The freshness of the air, the oranges and browns of the few leaves left on the trees, the occasional sunny day, warm enough for just a jumper during the middle of the day and the steam of your breath on the fresh cool evenings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Some of the sunsets are a highlight for me, but getting wrapped up is a must - perhaps that's an age thing. And again we used the phrase - in the 'autumn of your life' and the parallels are obvious.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As a colleague and friend is keen on reminding me, only 88 days to Christmas!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ta-ra</span><br />
Rarelesserspottedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15865928245970626612noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083684017954117107.post-43580950099927563242013-09-21T16:10:00.000+01:002013-09-21T16:10:19.167+01:00Silence is... Overwhelming<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Taking into account the four geographical areas within Yorkshire (east, north, south and west), it's a huge county and there is always somewhere new to visit. I took the opportunity of accompanying my friend Linda recently to Ampleforth Abbey in high rural North Yorkshire, the first visit by either of us. <a href="http://www.ampleforth.org.uk/" target="_blank">The Abbey</a> belongs to the Roman Catholic Church.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ampleforth Abbey, this latest version of the church was consecrated in 1961</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This beautiful location encompasses both a Benedictine Monastery and a college. In 1802, the original house that stood on the site was given by the Honourable Anne Fairfax from which the Monastery was founded and which subsequently became an Abbey in 1890. Over the years it has developed and grown and had three churches upon the site.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The church that remains today is a magnificent edifice, not overly huge, but warm, plain and inviting. Its is a working church, used several times a day, 365 days a year. We managed to sit in silence in the Lady Chapel next to the nave, lit candle of respect and spent 20 minutes in meditation there. What was amazing, truly amazing was the silence. I have heard quiet before, many times, but the silence was in fact overwhelming. Not a peep - no background noise - nothing. Bearing in mind this is in rural North Yorkshire, there are no main roads nearby and the college is not currently attended by students. A lady was preparing flower presentations at the other end of the church at the high altar for a wedding taking place shortly and apart for the occasional distant 'snip' of her secateurs, I couldn't hear anything. I'm not sure I could have stood it for too much longer, but I think I could get used to it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A 14th century German carving of the Virgin and Child watches over the small Lady Chapel. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We had a pleasant tea and a bun in the tea shop and a wander round the very pleasant gift shop which had, amongst other publications a couple of Dan Brown books!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The grounds were extensive and beautifully maintained and on good days I bet it is gorgeous to wander round. The college has six hundred students including boarders and the establishment of monks is currently around 70 although many are working in the community.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The visitors centre was very interesting and the lady guide was very informative, committed and helpful and a mine of information. This dispelled many myths about the life of a monk and the purpose of their work and what they achieve. I scored 7 out of 10 in a quiz about life as a monk - Linda scored 8 - she'd make a better monk than I.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The history displayed wasn't just about the Abbey, but how the monks arrived and the persecution suffered by the Catholic faith over the centuries. This was presented factually and in a none judgemental way. We were given a free visitors pack full of information. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If I have a criticism at all and it's nothing to do with the Abbey or the college or the people there, it's more about the faith, I found the religious iconography a bit too graphic. Everywhere were carvings of Christ nailed to the cross - I understand its significance, perhaps I just question the need to have it displayed so widely and in such graphic detail. This is not meant to offensive at all, simply an observation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Abbey is free to visitors and donations are welcome, the disabled are well catered for, there are plenty of facilities and weekend retreats are available (and not just for men.) The roads are a bit rural and narrow at times and with several road closures in the area, even the sat nav struggled to get us there and back through the rural environment. But that aside, a great day out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chat soon</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ta-ra</span><br />
Rarelesserspottedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15865928245970626612noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083684017954117107.post-50246241657101031702013-09-17T12:18:00.001+01:002013-09-17T12:18:19.214+01:00Writer's Cramp<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I love writing, but I'm hopeless at it and have little motivation most of the time. I guess life gets in the way. I've often wondered what makes a good writer; is it the 'can't put it down' factor, is it the riveting argument, the quaint prose, the subject matter, the satisfying beginning, middle and end?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I also suppose it's what you write too. Novels are hard for me, firstly because time is not easy to come by to sit down for a couple of hours a day and get my teeth into one. I read books at school age of course, Captain WE Johns Biggles books mostly, for pleasure and I read books for professional reasons, for education and advancement, but apart from the odd autobiography of my favourite stars, there it stopped for many years. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I was working away from home in 1984 for two weeks and I was bored to tears and I asked a colleague in desperation if he had anything to read and he loaned me a Stephen King novel 'Christine.' Not only had I never heard of Stephen King, but a horror/thriller too? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I was hooked, I couldn't put it down, a scrap car restoring itself and its odometer going backwards and taking revenge on people? What a load of rubbish, but it was in fact an extraordinary read full of emotion and atmosphere and I went on from there. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Do novels inspire me to write, no not really, but along with writing press releases for a few years, penning strategic level reports at work now, I like to make my writing clear and easy to understand without being patronising. I used to tell colleagues that you should write to the audience or recipient as if they were an intelligent 14 year old and leave no ambiguities and you should be okay. It seemed to work.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Writing a blog is no less difficult and yet it caters for a wide audience, many of whom just click in randomly and it has to be interesting, varied and often writ. That is my downfall, my life is sufficiently unexciting that I can only find things to write about every now and then when something happens or I do something different or exciting.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My writing in my personal life is on esoteric subjects relating to my interests in spirituality and psychic study, so my development group get papers from me regularly on a wide variety of subject matter. This is itself difficult to write because it's researched based. How much do I put it, more importantly, what do I leave out? I can't write a novel, just a couple of pages maximum on each subject to whet the appetite, to encourage further research on the part of the reader. I think this is one of the keys. How do I make this sufficiently interesting to inspire further reading?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The internet is an interesting subject in itself, but how much of this influences how we write? I can recall the days when the internet gurus said that every novel would only be read on the screen via the internet, the book is dead, long live the book. The truth is that writing for the book and magazine is as popular as ever and my local bookshop is always packed full of people browsing through the tens of thousands of book available on every conceivable subject. Much of what is written on the internet is interesting but some of it badly put and after a minute reading, it's easy just to switch to another site, or in some cases, better to go and make a cuppa.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There is a novel in everyone, but perhaps wisely, author, the late Christopher Hitchens also said,</span><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> “Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So I am not minded to write a book - just yet. I do have an ambition to write a book, but it's not fiction, it's about life, my life and its journey. Who is it for? Anyone, no-one. So what is the point - it's a lot of effort for a cathartic exercise, but there will be men out there and perhaps a few women who might relate to a life story of an ordinary person who has faced some difficulties, still faces difficulties but where the light at the end of the tunnel has been finally spotted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So I follow a couple of blogs of writers, <a href="http://bagginsbottom.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Diane Parkin</a> and <a href="http://darkfantasy13writer.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Paula RC Readman</a>, not necessarily just because they are writers, more for their personality and interesting blogs, but writing something substantial does hold that fascination and who knows - one day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I hope you are thinking about keeping warm as the autumnal weather starts to take hold.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chat soon</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ta-ra</span>Rarelesserspottedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15865928245970626612noreply@blogger.com4