The Eyes have it (Soup Diaries #4)

January 27, 2013

Tweet Too much Caffeine? My turn at the homeless shelter again and I take the middle shift. Sleep eludes me until it seems the last few minutes before my alarm goes off. I am in the kitchen again playing at Widow Twankey but all the washing and drying is done this time. The stories from [...]

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Wilting in the Cold (Yoga Diaries #4)

January 23, 2013

Tweet The Heaters can’t cope Never seen the room so packed at Bikram Yoga North. After piling on the pounds in the Festive Season, sweaty bodies are stretching, pulling, sighing and in some of the more difficult poses, trembling. With more than 40 people in the room, one has to be careful about not whacking a [...]

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My Beautiful Launderette (Soup Diaries #3)

January 13, 2013

Tweet Can you help this weekend? Having got used to rising at 5am on a Sunday to work at a homeless shelter, my help is requested overnight on the Saturdays for this month. With a light calendar, I volunteer for two of them and am told to turn up at 9.45 pm. Several set-up volunteers are there and [...]

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It’s too Early (Soup Diaries #2)

January 2, 2013

Tweet “Can you wash these apples please?” 6.30 am Sunday morning at a homeless shelter. It’s the second week that this has been open and this week there are eleven guests. Three who stayed the previous week have found permanent accommodation, so a couple of faces are new. They are all fast asleep but it is [...]

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By ‘eck! we did it.

December 29, 2012

Tweet So what did we do this year? It’s a quiet Saturday morning and someone is kind enough to do a summary of their project which you have been part of. This of course makes you think what you did or maybe didn’t achieve this year. The project here is the Advanced amateur radio exam [...]

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The Ken Dodd Pension Show

December 19, 2012

Tweet How Tickled I am As a writer, one tends to read a lot. And in a small way to help to keep my local library open, much of this is by reserving books from there with only the occasional book off Amazon or Ebay. Haringey has a pretty good service but sometimes like London [...]

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Let’s have a Rant

December 6, 2012

Tweet ….About our regulators For sometime now at networking events and other meetings, I have offered friends, contacts and readers the chance to do a guest blog. One or two have taken advantage of this but not as many as I would have expected. This week, I am happy to let award-winning business and financial journalist Padraig [...]

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Christmas will be early this Year

November 25, 2012

Tweet We’re all Doomed - again The winter solstice or shortest day of the year 21st December 2012 approaches. Traditionally this was very important for planting crops not to mention the thought that days would start to get longer and eventually warmer. The coldest days tended to come about 2 months later, still witnessed by snow in [...]

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Want to be a Ninja?

November 23, 2012

Tweet Don’t give up your Day Job Google Ninja and 456,000,000 hits come up including games, films and fans. From a start possibly in the Twelfth century there are only two real ones left in Japan according to an article by BBC News. Jinichi Kawakami, Japan’s last ninja grandmaster started training at 6 years old with [...]

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Good Deed for the Day? (Soup Diaries #1)

November 8, 2012

Tweet Now it’s my turn? Interesting how things catch up with you. Many years ago when my Dad finally retired, he decided to do some voluntary work as he had plenty of time on his hands. He had not remarried after Mum died from cancer, had no mortgage and more than adequate income from maximum [...]

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