England at its best

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What are the biggest mistakes people make when visiting your country?

The month of May is by far the most beautiful time of the year to visit England. 

People visiting at other times of the year are probably going to be disappointed.

Sure, we are having heatwaves, but when we aren’t, they can really expect a ‘four seasons in one day’ thing, going on.

During May, the hedgerows are fat and happy. The trees are green. The birds are active. The plants and flowers are glorious-simply at their best, and England has gotten warmer after a long, bleak, and grey winter.

Watching the lambs play is something else.

For just a moment?

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What’s the best way to build self-confidence?

Someone in their wisdom said,’Be careful what you wish for‘.

And didn’t we hound the Happiness Engineers at WP to make our DP’s more interesting?

They are coming up with some beauts, now.

Crikey, confidence, that’s a biggy to get your head and words around, eh?

Confidence is something you can build, have knocked out of you, have it installed, loose it, regain it, or sadly never ever had it.

Seems kinda fluid, do you think? One minute you have it, the next minute you don’t.

I’m thinking we aren’t so keen on folk who are overconfident. But there again, that’s their problem and not ours.

So maybe it comes down to enjoying those personal moments where things click, we get it, and understand it.

Being yourself…

Joey Jones13 Comments

How do you build loyal subscribers?

Good question.

I guess it is having people engage with our style of writing.

The beauty of WP is that we get to read about the  lives of other writers. From different worlds or generations, faiths, or no faiths. Just a mish mash of folk who enjoy showing up and  putting down  thoughts, ideas, memories, fears and loathing, loves n likes.

About the likes, to me they are more about  a tick, an acknowledgement of having stopped by and read your stuff. Instead of the voyeurs, the ghosts who view, but leave without a nod.

Building up subscribers is good fun, a little reward for doing our best and peeps saying ‘ yes, I see you’.

As ever thank you to the very lovely June at https://fancyingfrance.com for being my first ever subscriber

I miss you 💜

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Share a proverb you think is completely wrong and make your case.

‘Time heals all wounds’

I wondered who in their deluded wisdom came up with that.

AI said….as they read it..

Menander (c. 342–290 BCE) — A Greek dramatist whose line “time is the healer of all necessary evils” is cited as an early form of the idea.

Terence (c. 190–159 BCE) — A Roman playwright whose Latin line “Diem adimere aegritudinem hominibus” (“time assuages human ailments”) is widely credited as the origin of the proverb’s modern form.

I will stick with the ever wise and wonderful Eleanor Roosevelt’s idea being 

‘You never really get over grief. You learn to live with it’

In your dreams

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Do you believe in soulmates? Why or why not?

For as long as I can remember, I have dreamt vividly. There are times when the next day I will see flashes/moments of the night, or even the night before, dreams.

Like everyone, you wonder where it all comes from.

Occasionally, I will feel the presence of a man at my side as the dream progresses. He is solid and strong. He expects nothing from me. It is a totally unconditional alignment of souls. There, at that moment, a unique closeness. Incredible.

I know I won’t live to see it…

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What’s something you’d love to see in the future, but know you probably won’t live to witness?

World peace is not going to happen, is it?

As long as there are arms dealers, warmongers, disruptors, the powerful and greedy, we don’t stand a chance.

I’ve written a thousand times about the dick-swingers who rule our world…They are insane, Simple as

I don’t need to tell you guys just how mad and out of control everything is…

There are those too frightened to speak out, those who just accept it as it is and the apathetic..

And when you do make a noise…no one is listening. Or they are helpless or afraid  to speak up. So we are snookered.

Something has to give. Maybe the planet itself will decide where this is going?

Spaced Out

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Do you believe in minimalism?

”Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” So said William Morris ( and my hero) in 1880, England.

Yup, minimalism certainly floats my boat! Whereas some folk are excited at accumulating ‘ stuff’, I’m happy to see things go and space appear.

Heavenly

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What’s a moment in your life that felt like it was straight out of a movie?

A movie? Maybe not, but it was certainly an out of body experience. Walking alone down a totally deserted beach in the Maldives.

(One thing I did try to push to the back of my mind is that it is only 1.5 metres above sea level)

I was with a group of peeps much of the time….but that moment will stay with me forever…. .