Cornwall/Kernow

5th Dec 20255th Dec 2025 Joey Jones14 Comments

Do you have a favourite place you have visited? Where is it?

Having written about it several times this year, I’ll just share some holiday snaps. Cornwall on the far SW coast of England.

433 miles of coastline and over 300 beaches ⛱️

Are you positive?

4th Dec 20254th Dec 2025 Joey Jones1 Comment

Share five things you’re good at.

I guess there are going to be some spectacular achievements and abilities revealed today in response to this DP. I look forward to reading those and being suitably impressed.

Mine? Well, there won’t be any loud applause coming my way as I reveal five things I’m fairly good at, but that’s fine.

What’s the best thing? Knowing I am giving Patch his best life. Without any conditions. Yes, if I had a squeak, he’d gut me like a fish, but hey ho.

I’m definitely good at never getting/ being bored. I can always find something to do if that’s what is called for. Also, I’ve got chilling off to an art.

Next? Umm, I enjoy a good sense of humour. I like funny. I love funny people and/or folk who make some effort to be upbeat. I had given up the Socials, but I have been lured back into TikTok recently. There are things there-animal antics, mostly, that do make me laugh out loud.

I guess this one sort of continues from the last. I’m good at not taking my life too seriously. What’s the point?

And lastly, but not leastly. Gratitude. I’m properly good at that. No, I’m I’m not an angel, and I do lust after ‘things’ or a lifestyle I’m unlikely to achieve. But importantly, I recognise I have what I need

Under a Cold Moon

4th Dec 20254th Dec 2025 Joey Jones9 Comments

No prizes are being handed out for guessing why the new supermoon making an appearance today (11.14pm GMT) is called the Cold Moon.

Natives of North America, these wonderful souls at one with nature gave names to the moons in a bid to track the seasons.

With the Winter Solstice approaching on the 21st, the sun will be at its lowest and the moon at its highest.

Did you know the moon’s orbit( Elliptical orbit) isn’t a perfect circle but slightly oval-shaped?

When I was little, Cowboy and Indian movies ( Westerns) were popular and often on TV. I remember vividly, I can’t have been very old, watching a part of one film where the Indians on horseback were circling a wagon train. Arrows were flying one way and bullets another. I distinctly remember thinking to myself that should I be part of that scenario, I would lay down and pretend to be dead- A little insight there into the mind of a child

Crikey

Mind your language

3rd Dec 20253rd Dec 2025 Joey Jones4 Comments

What is one thing you would change about yourself?

It would be pretty cool to wake up tomorrow morning being multilingual. Arabic and Tamil (to start with) so I could surprise friends by being able to communicate in their mother tongue.

The texts of both are complicated so very complex my poor brain would not be able to cope with an influx of data of such magnitude. So, the verbal ability will be just fine. Thank you.

No fear of missing out (fomo)

2nd Dec 20252nd Dec 2025 Joey Jones9 Comments

Are you more of a night or morning person?

After a busy life and more than my share of late nights, I’m happy now to chill Olympian style. Got it off to a fine art, you may say.

Into my pj’s at the first opportunity is now my rock n roll.

Lights-off can vary from night to night depending on how I feel, but as the morning comes round, I’m ready, pretty much up with the lark.

A new day is a new page, clean, fresh, and ready to be filled, or not.

Of course, a clear, mild, still and dry morning is favourable, but if the worst thing that happens to me on any given day is I get drenched taking the dog out, I feel I’ve got off lightly.

Al-Ma’arri: AD 973~1058

1st Dec 20251st Dec 2025 Joey Jones4 Comments

What are your feelings about eating meat?

No, thank you, WP 💚 Haven’t eaten meat for many moons

The following poem was written in around 1000 AD by a blind Arab philosopher, poet and writer named Al-Ma’arri: AD 973 – 1058 ( by Gentle World)

‘ You are diseased in understanding and religion.

Come to me, that you may hear something of sound truth.

Do not unjustly eat fish the water has given up.

And do not desire as food the flesh of slaughtered animals,

Or the white milk of mothers who intended its pure draught

for their young, not noble ladies.

And do not grieve the unsuspecting birds by taking eggs;

for injustice is the worst of crimes.

And spare the honey which the bees get industriously

from the flowers of fragrant plants;

For they did not store it that it might belong to others,

Nor did they gather it for bounty and gifts.

I washed my hands of all this; and wish that I

Perceived my way before my hair went gray!

Let them eat cake

30th Nov 202530th Nov 2025 Joey Jones17 Comments

What are your two favorite things to wear?

An easy DP@WP today.

It was my birthday a little while back, and I got two amazing wearables.

One from a couple, close friends, I’ve known forever and the other from a very generous and kind employer from overseas,moons ago.

Me n Patch had a summer break in Cornwall. Said friends had generously given us use of The Sheppy. One of their Airbnb’s, a Shepherds Hut. We had a great time and of course this year it was as hot as. One day, we were shopping before ‘ladies who lunch’, lol. I had eyed and coveted a lovely winter cardigan in a little shop. It was more than I could afford, so I walked away from it. Only for it to turn up on my day. Surprise? Oh yes!

The other gift and also a favourite for this DP. A very beautiful Pashmina from an employer I had parted ways with twenty years ago. She remembers me every birthday and Christmas. I’m not sure this lovely lady imagined I’d wear it every night and every single morning whilst writing before I get out of bed ( Patch willing).

Better than letting it wait for a special occasion – I’m awake and breathing, a cause to celebrate anyway, methinks.

The Final Curtain 💜 for Sir Tom Stoppard

30th Nov 202530th Nov 2025 Joey Jones2 Comments

Tributes are flooding in from the literary world and beyond for the celebrated playwright, screenwriter, and former journalist, Sir Tom Stoppard. ( 1937~2025)

Critically compared to William Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw, his writing for film, stage, radio, and television is legendary. Covering subjects including human rights, censorship, political freedom, and philosophical observations of human society.

Of him, Sir Lawrence Olivier once said –

” ….is a great glamouriser of thought”

About being a writer, Sir Tom said –

“You’re a writer. You write because you’re a writer. Even when you write about something, you have to think up something to write about just so you can keep writing”

Wow- imagine being a writer of that calibre!

You called?

29th Nov 202529th Nov 2025 Joey Jones3 Comments

What technology would you be better off without, why?

Okay, let’s get this out there- I’m still impressed with the landline. I mean, come on, who the flip thought that up? What I mean is how?

From what I can gather Alexander Graham Bell and his sidekick Watson get the credit, but it was Antonio Meucci, an Italian inventor who came up with the first telephone-like device, he couldn’t secure the patent in time, and Bell beat him to it in 1876. Nice!

Getting to today’s DP, its got to be the driverless car. Nah, don’t fancy that at all. By any stretch!

AI tells me….

‘Pilot programs for driverless taxi, private-hire, and bus services will launch in the UK. These will be the first opportunities for the public to book a ride in a self-driving vehicle via an app, though the rules for these early services are still being shaped.

Second half of 2027: This is the target for the full implementation of the UK’s Automated Vehicles Act, which could lead to a broader rollout of driverless vehicles on public roads.’ Yikes!!

So yes, landlines are pretty amazing in my simple mind, but so are 3D printers. 😯 How the…?

Hong Kong 💜

28th Nov 202528th Nov 2025 Joey Jones3 Comments

I cannot let another day pass without sending my sincere condolences out to the folk of Hong Kong. To the men, women, children, and animals who lost their lives so brutally in the fire-To the loved ones of the deceased and still missing, my heart goes out to you all.💜

IN THE BOOMER PIGEON HOLE?

The hard work is over. Kicking back and loving retirement