Hello everybody who reads my blog I have been gone for a hot moment there, but I am back, and I have so much to tell you all because so much has happened and so much is going to happen heading into next year.
First things first, I quit my job!
I am at peace with my decision. I am no longer angry within myself, and I feel the need to take some time out I was becoming not a very nice person which I didn't want, nor did I like.
I have started swimming again about 3 times a week so I rejoined the gym as a pay and go customer till January then I will move onto a membership. I am very happy with that.
I have started walking again and I love it, just walking all wrapped up in all weathers... I just walk.
On to the next part I am finally going to Australia (insert crazy scream)
My beautiful friend Becky and her Fiancé Stephen are getting married in January and I am invited (YAY) and I'm going.
Visa, Flight, cattery, trains all booked, exciting times.
I paid off my working holiday to Australia and hopefully the visas will open in time for me to leave in March. It is taking so long because I am older that the current visa age limit, but the company said the age limit is changing to 35/36 but when they do is anyone's guess.
So that's a rough lowdown on life.
I promise to keep up on my blog, but its contents might be changing a bit to Travel, Food, DIY Projects and sustainability, Climate change.
My Review: A great explanation on grief and how you don't ever get over it, it's like a slow burn. A bit of over kill with descriptive explanations sometimes but over all a good book. Short audio book.
'Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language'
On 10 June 2020, the scholar James Nwoye Adichie died suddenly in Nigeria.
In this tender and powerful essay, expanded from the original New Yorker text, his daughter, a self-confessed daddy's girl, remembers her beloved father. Notes on Grief is at once a tribute to a long life of grace and wisdom, the story of a daughter'
My Review: I love this book. I love all this ladies writing's.
Rupi Kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and the potential of the self. home body is a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself – reminding readers to fill up on love, acceptance, community, family, and embrace change. Illustrated by the author, themes of nature and nurture, light and dark, rest here.
I dive into the well of my body and end up in another world everything I need already exists in me there’s no need to look anywhere else – home
My Review: This book was great and very informative but made me angry at the same time. Everyone knows the almighty damage nuclear weapons can do and yet here we have a group of men picking and choosing which cities to destroy first, not even a thinking about the millions of innocent people that died or had a painful health effects many years after, their is never going to be any justification for that.
How did America choose the targets for the atomic bomb?
What made Hiroshima preferable over Kyoto or Tokyo?
Critical to the mission to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a series of meetings set up in mid-1945 and comprising America’s most powerful military, political and scientific chiefs.
The committee men would decide where and how the first nuclear weapons would be used in anger.
In this absorbing and provocative narrative, historian Paul Ham shines a torch on their arguments to reveal the thinking behind the atomic destruction of two cities and how the Target Committee justified it at the time.
Quotes from The Target Committee:
‘The ideal target city for an atomic bomb should possess sentimental value to the Japanese so its destruction would adversely affect the will of the people to continue the war’ – Major General Leslie Groves, leader of the Manhattan Project
‘Kyoto lies in the form of a cup and thus would be exceptionally vulnerable, It is exclusively a place of homes and art and shrines’ - Henry Stimson, US War Secretary
From Rupi Kaur, A vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing. Ancestry and honouring one’s roots.
Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself. Divided into five chapters and illustrated by Kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms.
this is the recipe of life said my mother as she held me in her arms as i wept think of those flowers you plant in the garden each year they will teach you that people too must wilt fall root rise in order to bloom
Sunday Times Bestseller A breath-taking and beautiful exploration of our planet, this ground-breaking book accompanies the BBC One TV series, providing the deepest answers to the simplest questions. How did life on Earth begin? What is the nature of space and time? What are the chances that we will discover life on other worlds? Forces of Nature takes you from the mid-Atlantic ridge in Iceland, the volcanoes of Indonesia and the precipitous cliffs in Nepal, to the manatees off the coast of Florida and the northern lights of the Arctic, in search of the fundamental laws that govern our world. These universal laws shape everything, from the structure of snowflakes to the elegant spirals of the galaxies. By seeking to understand the everyday world - the colours, structure, behaviour and history of our home - we can step beyond the everyday and approach the Universe beyond. Think you know our planet? Think again.
The science teacher in me was nodding along with most of this book, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Brian Cox (Physicist)
Cox studied physics at the University of Manchester during his music career. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree with first-class honours. After D:Ream disbanded in 1997, he completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree in high-energy particle physics at the University of Manchester. His thesis, Double Diffraction Dissociation at Large Momentum Transfer,was supervised by Robin Marshall and based on research he did on the H1 experiment at the Hadron Elektron Ring Anlage (HERA) particle accelerator at the DESY laboratory in Hamburg, Germany.
Cox has appeared in many science programmes for BBC radio and television, including In Einstein's Shadow, the BBC Horizon series, ("The Six Billion Dollar Experiment", "What on Earth is Wrong with Gravity?", "Do You Know What Time It Is?", and "Can we Make a Star on Earth?") and as a voice-over for the BBC's Bitesize revision programmes. He presented the five-part BBC Two television series Wonders of the Solar System in early 2010 and a follow up four-part series, Wonders of the Universe, which began on 6 March 2011. Wonders of Life, which he describes as "a physicist's take on life/natural history", was broadcast in 2013. He co-presents Space Hoppers and has also featured inDani's Houseon CBBC.
Cox also presented a three-part BBC series called Science Britannica which sees him explore the contribution of British scientists over the last 350 years, as well as the relationship between British science and the public perception thereof.
BBC Two commissioned Cox to co-present Stargazing Live, a three-day live astronomy series in January 2011 – co-presented with physicist-turned-comedian Dara Ó Brian and featuring chat show host Jonathan Ross – linked to events across the United Kingdom. A second and a third series featuring a variety of guests ran in January 2012 and January 2013.
