Author Archive for Peter

Chopsticks

Peter January 3, 2014 Post Comment Uncategorised

My ethnicity is British – so, although I started out like all human babies by using my hands as utensils, I was taught to eat ‘properly’ with knife, fork and spoon. That methodology applied for all food, including oriental cuisine, so dexterity with chopsticks was ...

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The Presence of Must

Peter December 25, 2013 Post Comment Uncategorised

There are, in my Chambers’ Dictionary, almost six definitions of must. These range from its use to express compulsion, necessity or obligation – right through to musk; hair powder and the verb to powder. Of course, the latter ones are of pretty obscure usage, and ...

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Words that match the pattern …

Peter December 12, 2013 Post Comment Uncategorised

One of the bits of our extended memory in the faculty of language is the dictionary – plus, if we are a bit of a crossword buff or geek, a thesaurus. With the arrival of computers and the interweb of course, came the super-extend dictionary ...

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Dementia Diary – Stuck in a Moment

Peter December 3, 2013 Post Comment Uncategorised

In amidst the bubbling and boiling emotional sea that can beset the voyage of any dementia carer, there can be intuitive and insightful moments. Needless to say, the depth to which we are almost submerged in that sea can mask any level of learning and ...

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Think Like A Dog

Peter December 3, 2013 Post Comment Uncategorised

Isn’t it in the very nature of parables and intuitions that sometimes they are framed up in the oddest ways? Now I’d like to aver at the outset, that THE world really is akin to that never ceasing and random quantum soup that Nobel Prize ...

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Connect 4

Peter December 1, 2013 Post Comment Uncategorised

I was on a train the other day and four young lads got on and came and sat across the aisle from me. I surmised they were good buddies from their casual demeanour and body language – and there were no particular leaders and followers, ...

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Lady and The Tramp

Peter November 28, 2013 1 comment Uncategorised

We all have our Pet Hates – whether that’s people, or situations. In the case of irritations, like that, for us all there is a sliding scale from a mild or minor irritation right up to the pinnacle – the top tier, the two or ...

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The Wardrobe

Peter November 14, 2013 Post Comment Uncategorised

Casually watching Twitter posts scroll up can often be a source of amusement, interest, and occasionally a spur into experiencing connective ideas. And thus it was, this morning, as my attention was caught by one of those time-worn phrases of the self-development lingua franca, namely:- ...

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Relocating Fingers

Peter October 20, 2013 Post Comment Uncategorised

I’ve written elsewhere about how easy it is for one or two of my fingers to become dislocated – and about how I manage to put them back in place, to “relocate” them. In addition to the entirely physical nature of this whole set of ...

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Operate at 100%

Peter October 8, 2013 Post Comment Uncategorised

Tangent In the cosmic scheme of things, quite a profound moment for me in my mathematics secondary education was concerned with the tangent – that straight line that just touches the circle. Now just what was SO profound about this particular geometrical “given” – for ...

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