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Off To The Brethren!
🤗 Many of you will be familiar with my annual visit to the Brethren in the Monastery. I have been associated with them for many years now…….🤓 I have always tried to make at least one visit a year to … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, lessons, Photography, Thoughts, Uncategorized, values
Tagged brethren, community, life, lifestyle, meditation, monastery, prayer, reflection
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Week-end Whoopee!!!
Two Swiss lawyers were sitting in a restaurant, talking shop. One of them called across to the waiter and asked: “Does anyone here have a copy of the Swiss Criminal code by any chance?” The owner immediately went up to … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Fun, Jokes, Photography, Uncategorized
Tagged bees, criminal, Fun, lawyers, life, restaurant, smiles, Swiss, wine
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Shaw’s Insights!
“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”  — G.B.S Immaturity
Week-end Whoopee….
The Director arrives at his office an hour late. In the lift he bumps into one of his staff, and observes: “Late again!” The employee answers: “I’m sorry to say, so am I.”
Posted in Blogging, Fun, Jokes, Photography, Uncategorized, Wit
Tagged directors, employees, late, life, office, people, seagulls
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Shaw’s Insights!!!
“Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.” — G.B. Shaw ( Maxims for Revolutionists)
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Tagged GBShaw, life, maxims, passion flower, satire, smiles, taste, wisdom
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Week-end Whoopee!!!!
A reporter asked a football trainer: “How can your team manage to win every match?” “I don’t understand it, either. What’s more, before every game I bet the referee five thousand pounds that we’ll lose.”
Posted in Blogging, Jokes, Laughter, Photography, Uncategorized, Wit
Tagged bees, betting, football, life, referee, reporter, smiles, sport
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Shaw’s Insights!
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~G. B. Shaw (Maxims for Revolutionists)
Posted in Blogging, lessons, Photography, Quotes, Thoughts, Uncategorized, Wit
Tagged adaptation, fuchsia, GBShaw, lessons, life, man, reason, wisdom, world
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Shaw’s Insights!!!
“[The] power of accurate observation … is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.” — G.B.Shaw – The World
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Tagged cacti, cynicism, GBShaw, insights, life, observation, people, wisdom
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Week-end Whoopee…
A sports journalist was reading the results on Television. In one report he suddenly started to stutter as he read off what it said in his manuscript: “O…O…O…O…O…” In agitation the producer whispered: “Do go on, they’re only the Olympic … Continue reading
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Tagged journalism, life, olympics, rings, stuttering, television
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Wit and Wisdom of Wilde!
“Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword” ― … Continue reading
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Tagged bravery, cowardice, kiss, lessons, life, love, people, wilde, wisdom
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