Category: philosophy
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Peace in the Middle East
It’s difficult to imagine that we might return to the situation just a few months ago when the US launched its apparently irrational attacks on Iran. Of course the situation in the Middle East has been especially tense since the barbaric attack on Israel by Hamas in October, 2023 which was followed by the merciless…
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Coffee shops, cafes and restaurants
On the last night of our short break in Florence last year we had dinner in the hotel restaurant because it was a Sunday and options outside were limited. Fortunately it was a very good hotel with a ‘proper’ restaurant and we were expertly looked after by Markus. I grumbled when Markus came to take…
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I’m of an age when I think about such matters
It began on Thursday evening. I go to a one hour cardio exercise class expertly run by Steve Symonds. It runs for an hour, there’s generally 8 or 10 of us there and it’s good value. We chat a bit and inevitably we often talk about cardiac issues, heart attacks and blue light journeys to…
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It’s amazing what you find when you’re not looking
This document dates from Dec 98/Jan 99 when we took a New Year’s break in Malaysia. We flew after Xmas, stayed for a few nights in Kuala Lumpur and then went to Penang for the New Year. We stayed in the Penang Mutiara beach resort, I know because the document was written on the back…
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