There have to be some kinds of tea that don’t have tannin, right? Well unfortunately actual tea from the tea plant has tannin. So… bummer. But wait…
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If you haven’t got your health
When gall bladders go bad.
Let go to hold on
I think I have a way through.
Stuck in a loop
What do you do when you can’t get over something?
Just a catch-up
So where am I just now? Hmm… Let’s think.
New stuff now please
Anyone here old enough to remember the original Miama Vice TV show? I saw it on reruns, I think, when I was in my teens. The final scene of the proper big end-of-everything finale stuck with me and I’ve never known why. But every now and then I think of it and it makes meContinue reading “New stuff now please”
Better to be bored than troubled?
I’m halfway through a Hong Kong drama just now – On-Lie Game (as always, a play on words. This one is about online scams). If you can get past the Public Service Announcements about how to avoid being scammed, it’s pretty much a run-of-the-mill tangle of casework and the main characters’ personal lives. It’s nothingContinue reading “Better to be bored than troubled?”
Sisko was right about baseball
Ben Sisko – Commander and then Captain in Starfleet during the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine years, in an effort to explain linear time to an alien race, compared it to a baseball game. His reasoning was that you never know what can happen next in life – humans are resigned to being stuck onContinue reading “Sisko was right about baseball”
Moving On 2020
Yep, I’ve moved again. Yesterday, in fact. From an end-of-terrace house to a second-floor flat. It’s ace. It’s a long, wide studio flat with two massive skylights and three large windows which means you get sun all day from varying angles – and sun means WARM. Honestly, the carpet is trying to radiate its ownContinue reading “Moving On 2020”
Meet-ups
I moved to Manchester a little over a year ago. All my friends are in the South or in other countries. This can make you feel somewhat frustrated; you want to go do that thing you like but the people who would have gone with you are not here. Logical choice, then: go on yourContinue reading “Meet-ups”