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I am reading an article in the times about heating costs and it seems that people with a large family could be spending a quarter of the monthly income on heating.

For smaller families it will be 20% or 1/5 of their income.

Of course when I was growing up we do not have central heating and most rooms didn’t have any heating at all.

Fire in the living room and and later my mother had a coal fire and fireplace built in the kitchen.

In the bedrooms there were fireplacesbut the only time I’m I saw a fire in the tiny fireplace was when my father was in his last year of life

Simply could not afford to use the coal

And if we wanted to use the toilet we had to go outside.

Old people keep a chamber pot under the bed if I doubt very much whether anybody nowadays would be willing to do that but it’s too expensive to have your house extended to build more bathrooms or downstairs toilet rooms.

People have borrowed money for extension and have got larger home and we are are used to keeping them warm in the winter

Using a vessel how to empty your bladder into was certainly a lot cheaper but it was hell going outside to the lavatory when it was snowing and my mother used to keep a little lamp out thereto stop it freezing up

When I was very small we did not have a toilet that flushed we had I suppose you might call a privy.

If you look down you can see the sewer

One might imagine that it would frighten children but my mother tells me that I was toilet trained and could speak before I was 1 year old.

Unfortunately I could not walk down the backyard when I was 10 months old so I was allowed to use a potty.

My older brothers were very nice. The kindly used to empty the potty over my head and I can remember that.

To help me to dry out set my hair on fire with a box of matches and know that I’m old my hair has got thinner and the part that they’re burnt looks like I’m going bald there.

No hairdresser used to mention it to it except one man who pointed to it and said pity about this isn’t it. But my hair is so thick and beautiful it didn’t really worry about

What did make me anxious was that they continued for some years to try to harm me

Even trying to make me fall out of a boat into a millpond

Oh normal behaviour for children I think

To go back to the heating question this is not the answer generally but if you wear more clothes such as wool vests and thermal leggings with wool socks it can certainly make you more comfortable but if your health does not permit you to walkc about very much because of arthritis or heart trouble or breathing difficulties it really isn’t much of a substitution for heating in a room.

death rates will rise next Winter because of that problem old people or sick people breathing in cold air is not good for us.

Sometimes people try to live in one room if they have some kind of bed or sofa bed and then just keep that one room is hot.

If you can’t afford to fill your tank with hot water because you can’t afford to put your boiler on we used to boil water in a kettle and get washed in the kitchen sink but obviously you can’t wash very much of your body in the kitchen when other people might be coming in and out so we had to have a tin bath in front of the fire and my brothers are not there are.

I knew nothing else and it was cosy by the fire

We were not as clean as people are expected to be today.

And also nowadays people expect to have a smartphone and a tablet or a laptop at least.

You need this because this is how the government the hospital the doctor etc if in touch with us during this pandemic and I think this will continue into the future.All you can do if find a cheap provider for your phone.

See Martin Lewis money expert.

Suzette Haden Elgin

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Recognizing language that escalates

Acknowledging that there are times when escalating a conflict is the appropriate thing to do, if your ultimate goal is discussion and some kind of mutual agreement, how you bring that conflict into the open and force others to deal with it–the language you choose, the process you follow–will make or break your chances of productive engagement.

• Blaming others.
• Being over-apologetic or accommodating. “That’s okay, you just go ahead and have a good time without me.”
• Asserting one’s rights, stating one’s perspective with absolute certainty, globalizing (what’s true for me is true for everyone else).
  Everyone knows that he steals. No one has a right to talk to me like that.
• Attacking someone’s personality or morality, someone’s motivations. You knew we had a different plan yet you went ahead unilaterally just to spite everyone. That manager is out to get us. I know you meant well, dear, but you lack judgment.

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Governments want to shut down for Christmas.

To a Hindu it’s none of my business.

But Truss follows Jesus.

If only to tease us.

She will take everyone left to the cleaners

For the poor there are bills that will bankrupt

They can’t even find an NHS dentist

Advice would you give

You think you know how to live.

You’ve never held the eye of the tempest

Mathematics is often a nemesis

Whatever does it mean for pretences?

Life is so complex

Don’t mention the Tampax

We bleed without going to the dentist

Some people prefer short haired horses.

Why study Chinese for its coarseness?

We don’t know ourselves

No Santa Claus elves

You don’t even see women in corsets.

I once had a doctor called Joseph

Who was a distant relation of Moses

He was the wisest we had

But often looked sad

You remember his family was Jesus.

An Icy hands took hold of my poor heart

As if from something good I would soon part.

My neighbour sees the writing on the wall

Fears she has dementia is appalled

She sees words on the ceiling telling her

She will die and such bad thoughts will scare

She thinks I will not see her any more

Her fear comes out deluded and mishaped

She is is racked by love and then by hate

If you know that you are near the end.

Confide this anguish to your nearest friends

I want to see you one more time

I would endure that pain of loss again

Yes, I still am with you in my dreams

I’d like to know your thoughts before you died

You concentrated,focussed, that was playi

I have longed to see you one more time

I felt it was a Play we were inside

Then we’d come back home, where we have lain

We are still companions in my dreams

What of love is captured in a rhyme?

So much so called “poetry” seems inane

I still wish to see you one more time

Love is not a concept of the mind

qI need your comfort but I need in vain

We are still companions in my dreams

Now I walk alone on new terrain

I do not suffer torture, am not blamed.

I have longed to see you one

No ro.om for mourning: he’s gone out
Into the noisy glen, or stands between the stones
Of the gaunt ridge, or you’ll hear his shout
Rolling among the screes, he being a boy again.
He’ll never fail nor die
And if they laid his bones
In the wet vaults or iron sarcophagi
Of fame, he’d rise at the first summer rain
And stride across the hills to seek
His rest among the broken lands and clouds.
He was a stormy day, a granite peak
Spearing the sky; and look, about its base
Words flowing like crocuses in the hanging woods,
Blank though the dalehead and the bony face.

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Greek mythology, Hades is both the land of the dead and the god who rules there. Hades the god (who the Greeks also called Pluto) is the brother of Zeus and Poseidon, who rule the skies and the seas. The realm called Hades, where he rules with his wife Persephone, is the region under the earth, full of mineral wealth and fertility and home to dead souls. Hades today is sometimes used as a polite term for Hell (“It’s hotter than Hades in here!”).

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So what will you go with?

It’s a pity that we have so many organs if you want if we only had one or two organs it would be easier to look after ourselves.

Will it be your heart or your lungs your liver your kidneys youbrain

If we had a so few organs we would not presume to be human.

So that’s no good is it?

The more complex the being the more ways that are for it to go wrong

That’s why I chose the washing machine with the least number of programmes on it.

You might want a wool wash.

But you don’t need an acrylic wash.

I remember the tedium of washing jumpers in the winter and drying them flat.

When I was a child we wore them right through the winter and we only washed them when the war of the weather arrived

You can saying it this typing with the voice leaves a lot of arrows and what we riot

My heart was not in mathematics

Looks like you spent 7 years of study to find that out.

At least it was a possibility.

Anyone moderately intelligent would not look for heart in something so cold and austere

That is hostile. It’s positively insulting

Thank you very much.I I’m making real progress now.

What kind of job would require you to be insulting?

Prime minister member of parliament judge..

Do you have to spend the money taking a course when most people can be insulting without any effort at all,?

Do you really believe that that is true?

Don’t be so literal minded.

You want to say 1that most people would ask for Johnson to give moral guidance for their children?
Well in the sense that you can say whatever you see him doing it will be wise to do the opposite.

So instead of loving a woman I would have to love a man? Is a woman the opposite of a man?

Not nowadays

Instead of telling lies tell the truth that is the opposite.p

Like when someone asks me how many children I have I should say 49?

If you really do have 49 children.

Uncountably many?

How could you have uncountably many children?

If you had never learned to count or only up to two.

That won’t do, in mathematics uncountable means can never be counted by anybody.

How can we be sure that someone who was not yet born would be able to count what we now think uncountable?

Because it has nothing to do with the person who’s counting it is inherent in the set of objects such as the r11111eal numbers.

It’s been proved that the set of all real numbers can never be counted.

And what is that useful for ?

We don’t worry about that in mathematics.

Well good luck and goodbye

But it shows there are more things in this world than we dream of.Even our dreams are startling and complex.

Why?

We don’t know yet.

So just enjoy them

Yes.

E

Transubstantiation is
a] A town in Romania
b]Part of the Wholly Roman Empire
c] Part of Rome
d] Advanced calculated substitution algebra

e] A Latin newspaper
f] All of the above
g] None of the above
h] A new cookery book.
i] The missing link
j] An idea

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What to me may seem a worthless weed
Bears its little flowers to create seeds
Thus it spreads itself as Love requires
Humble speedwell,hear of our desires.

In the pavements cracks were home to grass
The sidestep slabs were broken like thick glass
When heavy frost came, rain formed frozen pools
I trod in them as I tore up to school

The crackling ice, the mist dropped on the park
Our ginger cat, the trees, the dog that barked
Our mother in the kitchen making tea
The oven by the fire, the big door key

Little signs spark tender memories
The future fiction, gone the past abyss

The crackling ice, the mist dropped on the park
Our ginger cat, the trees, the dog that barked
Our mother in the kitchen making tea
The oven by the fire, the big door key

What to me may seem a worthless weed
Bears its little flowers to create seeds
Thus it spreads itself as Love requires
Humble speedwell,hear of our desires.

In the pavements cracks were home to grass
The sidestep slabs were broken like thick glass
When heavy frost came, rain formed frozen pools
I trod in them as I tore up to school

The crackling ice, the mist dropped on the park
Our ginger cat, the trees, the dog that barked
Our mother in the kitchen making tea
The oven by the fire, the big door key

Little signs spark tender memories
The future fiction, gone the past abyss

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Hostile Language

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 Hostile language   Language that escalates  Strategies

Recognizing Hostile Speech

One of the most important skills of a mediator or a negotiator, is to recognize hostile, escalating language and know how to quickly deflect or cool it down. Linguist and novelist Suzette Haden Elgin discusses the connections between language and conflict in her many books–well worth reading for anyone who finds themselves handling hot conversations.

• Strongly stressing particular words:
  How DARE you. That’s what YOU say.
  
• Using words that strongly identify people and objects
  YOU have no business… I would never do that. MY money, THAT woman, this BOYFRIEND of YOURS.
  
• Labeling someone’s intent or character.
  You are a slob. That company is just plain greedy!

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Recognizing language that escalates

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Hostile Language

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One of the most important skills of a mediator or a negotiator, is to recognize hostile, escalating language and know how to quickly deflect or cool it down. Linguist and novelist Suzette Haden Elgin discusses the connections between language and conflict in her many books–well worth reading for anyone who finds themselves handling hot conversations.

• Strongly stressing particular words:
  How DARE you. That’s what YOU say.
  
• Using words that strongly identify people and objects
  YOU have no business… I would never do that. MY money, THAT woman, this BOYFRIEND of YOURS.
  
• Labeling someone’s intent or character.
  You are a slob. That company is just plain greedy!

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Recognizing language that escalates

Acknowledging that there are times when escalating a conflict is the appropriate thing to do, if your ultimate goal is discussion and some kind of mutual agreement, how you bring that conflict into the open and force others to deal with it–the langua

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https://www.nytimes.com/guides/well/how-to-deal-with-stress

The study found that having a lot of stress in your life was not linked with premature death. But having a lot of stress in your life and believing it was taking a toll on your health increased risk of premature death

They got a primer about the physical stress response and were told how a higher heart rate, faster breathing and internal jitters were all tools for making you strong

You can practice for everyday stress in similar ways, by putting yourself in challenging situations. The good news is that practicing stress can actually be enjoyable, even thrilling. The key is to push yourself out of your comfort zone. Here are some suggestions:

• Run a marathon
• Play in a Scrabble competition
• Read an original poem at a poetry slam
• Climb a mountain
• Sing karaoke
• Tell a story in front of a crowd
• Take on a tough project at work
• Kayak the Colorado rapids
• Train to scuba dive
• Attend a boot camp

Not only will challenging experiences give you more confidence, but the repeated exposure to stressful situations can also change your body’s biological response to stress. Your stress hormones become less responsive, allowing you to better handle stress when it comes.

Dr. Dennis Charney, a psychiatrist and the dean of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, notes that programs like Outward Bound and basic military training are all designed to make people uncomfortable and build their skills so that they will be better able to handle stress later on. When his children were young, he took them on adventure trips that included “a degree of anxiety” like exposure to wildlife or kayaking in remote areas as a way to build confidence and prepare them to deal with stressful events. Putting yourself or your children in difficult social situations or speaking in public can help adults and children accumulate social and intellectual skills that help in times of stress.

“Live your life in a way that you get the skills that enable you to handle stress,” says Dr. Charney. “Put yourself out of your comfort zone.”

An Rx for Resilience

Another factor in how you handle a stressful situation is resilience. The American Psychological Association defines resilience this way:

Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or significant sources of stress — such as family and relationship problems, serious health problems or workplace and financial stressors. It means “bouncing back” from difficult experiences.

You can boost your resilience in a number of ways. In the book “Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life’s Greatest Challenges,” the authors, Dr. Steven M. Southwick

a stressful event. They were told how the body’s stress response evolved to help us succeed, and that the increased arousal symptoms of stress can aid your performance during times of stress. The bottom line of the lesson was this: In a tough situation, stress makes you stronger.

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It’s getting late but no one brought my dinner

I’m not hungry I shan’t bother to eat

Some people like anything but I don’t

I want butter beans flour cakes or teacakes

I want chips fried in beef dripping

Yeah I don’t like just anything

To make your own dinner requires work

But you can choose what you want

You don’t care

Then that’s alright

if I didn’t eat I would die eventually

but it would be painful

My reptile brain is still switched on.

The crocodile wants to eat maybe a human being

The mammal has my orders to go to a restaurant and get some French food

The human is wondering how much money I’ve got left and trying to to make sense of this life

But that ruins my appetite. Lose weight

The animal in me is anxious but I can see a lion but no one else could see

I will escape this because my adrenaline is pumping

but those relaxed people will die.

It’s a simple as that

They are like some other beings altogether

the cry more animal than human

The wordless pathos,

musical,disturbing

They have gone back to a troubled and unimagined infancy

but no mother responds to such a nightmare of overgrown voice boxes

the cry of a rabbit wolf in a trap

it’s the shriek in the wall cry of a baby in a psychotic nightmare.

Nicholas haunts Sylvia in the evocative memory of Ariel

And so it will end for you and me

Trapped in this old body with its old brain

on and on they cry

help me, help me,help me

nurse nurse

I want the manager I want the manager

I don’t want to be here I don’t want to be here

I want to go home

Help me

we don’t listen because they have dementia

what they say has no meaning.

that’s our defence

I am the norm

You are abnormal

but you smiled when I asked you if you would like your hair dyed pink

and I know you love the music therapist.

Your smell repels

Alas

Is this where Jesus dwells

If you did this to the least of my little ones, you did it to me. We

you haven’t forgotten about Eros

you are still hoping to find love

you are not dead yet but you can’ wait to go home

Every look we cast at others strikes

July 25, 2017

Before we go to bed we vegetate
No need for teacher but a compost heap.
And as we vegetate, we drift to sleep
While in our dreams our other mind debates

But mostly we’re unknowing in this dark
Where God himself may manifest at will.
His dazzling darkness makes our souls be still
And wait a strike by living, glowing spark.

But in the morning, we come back to strife
Take up our work and suffer every stroke.
From sapling to the oldest, strongest oak
Each thing must choose again its proper life

Every look we cast at others strikes
Reflects and shows us what we have become
And when there is no movement, we are done
Our mind and heart have chosen what they like.

So in our end, we vegetate again
And no more rise to labour in the day
For now, we fertilise the fields passed on our way
And show the end of woman and of man.

A daily round becomes our life and death.
We live because we’re breathed by sacredness.

Why is Shakespeare right about Julie’s tweezers ?

Why did Lady Macbeth hace such a bad amputation?

Who said, a thing of beauty is a toy forever?

What is the right time?

Why do people say it sucks when it’s babies that suck?

But can you think of any?

I can’t

How is it that children fail maths at school yet they can do do anything at all with computers tablets smartphones or without really seeming to make an effort?

It must be osmosis.

Why can’t you learn mathematics by osmosis?

They don’t want you to to because it would take work away from us nerds.

So just forget it

The four letter words are two common now so we will have to have 5-letter words.

 

A, an, and the: how to use articles in English

Extract:

Many learners of English have problems with articles (the words a, an and the), especially when they don’t exist in their own language. This blog looks at some of the basic rules.

The number one rule is this: if a word is countable (e.g. one book, two books), you must always use an article (or my, his, etc.):

 

I read a book. √

I read book.

This is true even if there are adjectives before the noun:

He drives an old car. √

He drives old car.

Never use a or an with a word that is plural (e.g. books, trees) or uncountable (e.g. water, advice):

I asked her for advice. √

When will we find out own song to sing

Where is the melody where are the words?

Two different parts that make up one song

The fiddlers will play and the church bells will ring

High in the sky is the warbling of birds

When will we discover our own song to sing?

All over the world we speak different tongues

That won’t detract from the beauty we heard

Two complete parts that make up one song

Inside out being our human heart stirred

The music a shelter to which we can cling

The community choir the happiest throng

The love of the madness,the love of the word..

Don’t wait forever to find your own song

Our human gifts will take life when they’re shared

Let nothing destroy love, let us not be scared

We are not enemies we can belong.

The Far and the Near contribute to this end.

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“Students can learn how to utilize grammar in their own writing by studying how poets do—and do not—abide by traditional writing rules in their work. Poetry can teach writing and grammar conventions by showing what happens when poets strip them away or pervert them for effect. Dickinson often capitalizes common nouns and uses dashes instead of commas to note sudden shifts in focus. Agee uses colons to create dramatic, speech-like pauses. Cummings of course rebels completely. He usually eschews capitalization in his proto-text message poetry, wrapping frequent asides in parentheses and leaving last lines dangling on their pages, period-less. In “next to of course god america i,” Cummings strings together, in the first 13 lines, a cavalcade of jingoistic catch-phrases a politician might utter, and the lack of punctuation slowing down and organizing the assault accentuates their unintelligibility and banality and heightens the satire. The abuse of conventions helps make the point. In class, it can help a teacher explain the exhausting effect of run-on sentences—or illustrate how clichés weaken an argument.

Yet, despite all of the benefits poetry brings to the classroom, I have been hesitant to use poems as a mere tool for teaching grammar conventions. Even the in-class disembowelment of a poem’s meaning can diminish the personal, even transcendent, experience of reading a poem. Billy Collins characterizes the latter as a “deadening” act that obscures the poem beneath the puffed-up importance of its interpretation. In his poem “Introduction to Poetry,” he writes: “all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope/and torture a confession out of it./They begin beating it with a hose/to find out what it really means.””