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My 10 year old taught me to do somersaults in the pool today. She was chuffed I could do it after drinking the pool a few times :) And then...

Your house is a just a pile of stuff with a cover over it - George Carlin A google search for decluttering brought up 1.9m results.  Th...

Time flies. It's two weeks into the New Year. That means enough time has passed for a large number of New Year Resolutions to have bee...

The sun's out today. After four days of incessant rain. As I ran up the stairs to the train station, I stopped in my tracks (pun int...

An old video of pendulum waves - Randomness still shows some pattern. "Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasin...

How do we know when we're having a conversation? Does it require the presence of another person? Does it require them to actively part...

Always take the weather with you.. - Crowded House It's been bucketing down for the last 24 hours. ...

There's something about the change of one (or perhaps two, & once in my lifetime, 4) digits of the calendar that urges most o...

Five judges in a New York court rule chimpanzees don't fit definition of a "legal person" http://t.co/lfYsJjWBw5 pic.twitter...

Progress is how the miraculous becomes mundane. Many of our ancestors would have given limbs for the privilege of seeing what’s on the othe...

I've never forgotten the first time I did it. I was in in year 3, & apparently the teacher thought me the brightest kid in class. ...

What do you do when you get into an elevator at work, & don't really know who the one other person in there is? My usual reaction ...

I wrote this quote out this morning. A quick check on my favourite quote researcher   and it appears that this quote has been wrongly attrib...

I regularly have days that I can't seem to find focus.  It is a struggle because my day job requires me to complete certain tasks whet...

Aaargh...  The joy of being aware of something is that it also brings silly things in sharp focus.  Rice, mongolian beef curry & sc...

It began with a long-awaited holiday. Going away from life as usual. Seeing family. Meeting friends, at least the ones interested enough to ...

Worth a read  - the viciousness of recent developments from a country that ought to be magnanimous, as seen through the eyes of a nurse loo...

"Mark Twain’s Viciously Funny Marginalia Took Aim at Some Literary Greats " - notes from the margins.

The language of news when its "them".

Time for unwinding - Bull Moose Jackson