Thursday, September 11, 2008
Here we go again!
Lumbago! It's hit again. Out of the blue, without any reason, wrong movement, strain or whatever, two or three times a year lumbago strikes. There is nothing I can do, it will last for about two weeks of misery and pain and then vanish as quickly as it came on. Sometimes movement helps, sometimes...
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Political correctness and nonsense
I have just found out, that I am obviously poltically incorrect if I call a secetary a secretary. No, no, not anymore. They are now called "Management assistants". Aha. What nonsense is that? An assistant in my opinion is just that, a person who supports, helps, does chores for someone else who...
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008
What is a WAG?
Today's language is full of acronyms which annoys me no end. First, because many times I don't know what they stand for (admittedly my fault for being stupid) and secondly because for me they are a violation of language. Language is very precious to me as it is to every writer and it should be...
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Monday, September 8, 2008
Achievements and anti climax
I'm sure that many of you have had the same experience. You want something desparately, like being published, you work hard to achieve that something, you make sacrifices, you don't give up. Then you have achieved your goal, your wishes are fulfilled and all you feel is----emptiness, a huge anti...
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Sunday, September 7, 2008
Do they have email in the spirit world?
I am quite interested in the supra natural, spirits, ghosts and mediums. I haven't yet made up my mind if I really believe that the spirits of our lost loved ones can get in touch with us through a medium or if it is all a hype fuelled by a desire to contact them, in short make believe. I have never...
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Saturday, September 6, 2008
Sooo NOt funny!
What I am referring to are so called practical jokes, which most of the time are neither practical nor a joke, because they can backfire terribly and lead to a situation which is worlds removed from funny. In our little community here, there is a man who can't swim very well and is short of hearing,...
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Thursday, September 4, 2008
The irrelevance of time
A while ago nautikos posted very interesting observations on time, its existence or lack of existence. Writing on blogit this very early morning reminded me and provoked some thoughts of my own. I am at present in Turkey where it is morning. This piece will or will not be read when it is night in...
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Finally- what Turkish Delight really is.
Turkish Delight is widely known but not everybody knows exactly what it is. One does have a general idea of something very sweet, a Turkish speciality, but it's much much more. The basis is a concoction made from sugar, rosewater and gelatine, boiled and left to cool, then cut into cubes. The result...
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Tuesday, September 2, 2008
4 Turkish faces
Now that summer is over and the millions of half-naked tourists have gone home, the Turkish locals come out again and I never tire of watching faces, attitudes, postures and the particular brand of fashion Turkish women wear. They combine just about anything: flowers, stripes, polka dots, sequins,...
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Monday, September 1, 2008
Meet my companion!
I love dogs and I am delighted to find Rocco the bullpit, who doesn`t really know what he is, here on blogit, together with everybody else who is fond of dogs. Unfortunately, given my lifestyle, I can`t have a real dog,because I can´t drag the poor mutt from Miami to Turkey and everywhere else in...
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