Today I said I’d post the answers to the quiz I set within the Seven Strange Things post. Congratulations to Amy for getting the answers nearly all correct - as I explain below I don’t think you can find an answer to question (i) on the Internet. Here are the questions again:-
i) How many […]

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This is the first time I have written about Yaro Starak, although he is probably someone whose work I have read more than anyone since I started this blog. Yaro writes about blogging - so whilst of interest to me, I have assumed he won’t be of interest to anyone visiting this site. […]

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Stephen Fry is always entertaining (to me anyway!) and usually gives interesting reflections on life:-

Sorry if the video doesn’t show (which seems to be a problem in Internet Explorer!). You can see it on You Tube My recent posts have highlighted the less than perfect starts of people who went on to great success in […]

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Last week I received an email announcing the relaunch of Success magazine. As the email was unsolicited - and technically spam - it didn’t seem a particularly auspicious way to relaunch a magazine! But it did lead me to dig out my old copy of Success, which I purchased in Chicago on my […]

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Thought I’d step away from goals and resolutions and share with you two new words I’ve learned recently. Gluckschmerz, a German word that means feeling unhappy about the good fortune of others; and Schadenfreude - yes, you guessed it - also German, which means feeling pleasure at the suffering of others.
Sadly, the English language doesn’t […]

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Some of you may have seen the above photograph before, as I used it to illustrate my post for Bob Clubb’s series on Desiderata, a few months ago. My post was based on the line from the poem: But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings
I took “dark imaginings” to mean “stop worrying” and […]

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