As a follow up to my interview with Denzil Walton, here’s Author Stevie Turner enjoying some non-screen time with her grand-daughters. https://steviet3.wordpress.com/2018/12/15/painting-pebbles/ Continue reading More Non-Screen Activities to Share
No story is too big or small, as long as it Goes Beyond religion and politics, into the core of humanity. Continue reading People Helping Other People #WATWB
I suppose it is a truism that the most of these one can have is nine. I just reached my seventh. Seems like a good time to look back at the others and see what I was doing. My first, … Continue reading Double Digit Birthdays
Never ignore your body when it is trying to tell you something and, of course, learn the signals it sends and what they mean. Continue reading Thanking my Lucky Stars
The story I’m linking to today first appeared in January although I only came across it via a segment on the BBC’s One Show on Wednesday. In 1975, as the Vietnam war was drawing to a chaotic close, a young Vietnamese woman became ill. She placed her infant son in the care of an orphanage whist she was hospitalised for treatment. Soon afterwards American soldiers removed the children from the orphanage for protection in the face of rapidly advancing Viet Cong troops. Subsequently American planes evacuated a large number of orphan children to the USA. Not to be out done … Continue reading Saigon to Belfast – and Back – With Love #WATWB
A pleasant surprise to find myself included with a group of other writers at Sally’s place. https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2018/02/23/sallys-cafe-and-bookstore-author-updated-wallace-peach-frank-parker-joy-and-eric-lennick-stevie-turner-and-tony-riches/#comment-132584 Continue reading Lurking at the Cafe and Bookstore #1
I came across this story via a segment on the BBC’s ‘One Show‘ on Tuesday 23rd. January. Seeking more information I was surprised by an apparent lack of coverage in other UK media. I found this article, from 2015, in an Australian newspaper. That seems to be based around the couple’s ‘Pride of Britain’ award that year. Scroll down the linked page to find them under ‘Special Recognition’ (theirs is the third such award listed). So, what is it all about? Six years ago Vivienne Morgan read about a teenager who had committed suicide after having been bullied at school. … Continue reading #WATWB The retirees who gave up their home to help kids with anxiety
For me it was becoming a shop-keeper. I’d taken up politics in a big way and took the opportunity my employer provided to take voluntary redundancy. What to do with that lump sum? Why, open a shop, of course! Nothing wrong with the idea in principle, nor the detailed plan – if only we’d stuck to the plan! Instead we were seduced by a man who had a small shop selling his home made ready meals. He was moving into larger commercial premises and needed someone to take on the lease of his shop and continue to sell his products … Continue reading What Would You Do Differently if You Could?
Sally Cronin hosts Thom Hickey in a cornucopia of glorious art, music and poetry. Any one would be a perfect accompaniment to this holiday season; together they are breathtaking. via Smorgasbord Christmas Posts from Your Archives – Christmas Cornucopia #Patrick Kavanagh #The Chieftains – Day Eight by Thom Hickey Continue reading Poetry, Music and Painting for Christmas
Just in case the music I just shared thanks to Clive at Take It Easy, was not enough, here is some more from author Stevie Turner. via It’s Getting Christmassy… Continue reading More Seasonal Music
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