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Everyone needs a reboot now and again- stand back, shut it down and start again. Support the show

As you get older you often get asked - if you had your time what would you do differently? Everything ! Thats not because I haven't had a great time - its because I'd like to try some other things - other ways of living  Support the show

The phrase ‘up the creek without a paddle’ is used to describe being in a difficult or challenging situation with no easy solution or means of escape . It implies being stranded or facing obstacles without the necessary resources or assistance to overcome them. Yup - I know that one pretty well.   Support the show

The Superman complex ....... Support the show

There is something almost sacred about the beauty of the early morning mist in the summer.  Support the show

Whether this is correct or not I don't know but the origin of the phrase is suggested to be : Got your six is a common phrase in police or military jargon, used to tell someone that one is looking out for their backs. The phrase comes from the fact that airplane pilots used to refer to various directions around themselves as if they stood in the center of a clock; “in-front-of” became 12’o cl...

None of the definitions of a stooge are particularly pleasant. I still look for playing and teaching work and occasionally I feel as though I'm being set up just to make up the numbers when the employer has already decided who they're going to hire a subordinate used by another to do unpleasant routine work:  "party stooges put there to do a job on behalf of central office t a perfo...

        Thomas Edison is credited with a famous adage about creativity and innovation: Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. In 1893 Kate Sanborn delivered a lecture in California that was reported in a Riverside newspaper. Here she suggested that genius was composed of three ingredients, but she did not give a memorable fractional breakdown. Her subject was “What is Genius?...

I think there is an enormous number of the more sensitive young people ( of all ages and backgrounds) who have struggled in multiple areas of life since the covid  period. Mental health, sociability issues, lack of confidence - call it what you like - some of them just need a break Support the show

Sometimes the price of trying to manipulate a situation to your own way of thinking creates a web of silly secrets and layer upon layers of lies.  Support the show

Usually a phrase spoken by someone who has a problem empathising with anyone who doesn't see the world like they do. Do you know anyone like that ?  Support the show

After losing a much loved collie cross dog just over two years ago we're looking at a possible replacement - a bit bigger and in need of a new home. Lets hope it works out. Support the show

I look at some things and think its " I think its best if I sit this one out" - if it's not your call =, if its not your decision to make - why get upset about it?  Why get involved ? Support the show

Pass the Parcel - the children's party game: when the music stops the child holding the parcel can unwrap the next layer of wrapping paper. The game goes on until at last the gift or prize is revealed. Its the perfect training for that well established adult workplace game of passing the buck. If something no one wants to take responsibility for is in play its amazing how fast "the parce...

I'm not entirely sure that some of these IT wizards are particularly good at teaching us old dinosaurs how to use these up to date systems. I never fail to come away from an IT training session feeling utterly stupid and useless. Support the show

Most people have a vulnerable part of their nature somewhere - however, well hidden. Support the show

Like Greenland, the Panama Canal and Canada perhaps. Support the show

VE Day celebrations were mainly about the Second World War and "victory" against the Nazi regime.  The most powerful images of war are for me the war poets, I've never been in the armed forces and I like to think I would have had the courage to be a conscientious objector, I somehow doubt it. Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves were writers and poets I remember well in...

Here's the Wikipedia bit " Lies, damned lies, and statistics " is a phrase describing the persuasive power of statistics to bolster weak arguments , "one of the best, and best-known" critiques of applied statistics . [2] It is also sometimes colloquially used to doubt statistics used to prove an opponent's point. The phrase was popularized in the United States by Mark...

“You’re not going to like this, but recycling doesn’t begin to address the problem. You can only recycle plastic a couple of times. And what you’ve got to do is stop the production of plastic, stop the first use of plastic. Recycling is a red herring - Boris Johnson. I'm not his greatest fan by a long way - but this makes sense. As I continue my Sunday morning ritual of re-cycling a ridiculou...

Retrospective bravery is a wonderful thing.... Support the show

DIY. I love it - If I'm honest - I'm not very good at it - but I love trying. It often takes me longer and costs more than it would have getting someone in to do the work who actually knows what they're doing - but who's counting ? Support the show

This tune confuses the Dustin Hoffman/Laurence Olivier film Marathon Man with the escape route Eichmann may have taken as he travelled to Argentina before he was eventually kidnapped by Mossad and taken to Israel where he was tried and subsequently sentenced to death in 1960. He was helped by those still sympathetic to the Nazi cause.  Support the show

Maintain a steady course, don't upset things, settle for a compromise. accept second best .... Why ? Support the show

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House is a 2018 book by journalist Michael Wolff . It is about Trumps first term in office. I'm not convinced about the second term even after just over 100 days. Support the show