Posts Tagged with "Life"
Things that piss me off.
I watched Gran Torino and was struck by the way the the Clint Eastwood character growled when things pissed him off. I’ve started to use ‘public’ transport now on my daily commute to work and one thing you don’t appreciate is quite how many of the ‘public’ you get to meet and there are several [...]
Continue reading...Plan Less, Be Happier!
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Happy New Year! This is the time of year for talk of resolutions. A New Year, A New You! The media and blogosphere is awash with various exhortations to achieve a ‘better’ you. My resolution partly inspired by this blog post by Tommy Angelo is to do less, to not have goals, not have to do [...]
Continue reading...Missing da Vinci masterpiece. Mystery solved?
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
In a report worthy of a Dan Brown novel, an Italian art expert claims he is on the verge of discovering a long-lost Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece – hidden in a secret cavity behind a palace wall. University professor Maurizio Serancini believes a clue in a huge painting in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio appears to suggest [...]
Continue reading...From bread queues to super yachts
Friday, September 25, 2009
Nearly every other person it seems here on the French Riviera is Russian. They’ve seemed to have wholeheartedly embraced the consumer dream and most places now have signs in Russian script. Esepcially the real estate and yacht outlets. Wonder what Marx or Lenin would make of it all.
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- He’s not the messiah…
- Things that piss me off.
- Plan Less, Be Happier!
- A simple life in a rural idyll?
- Nature raw in tooth and claw
- Slow food
- Missing da Vinci masterpiece. Mystery solved?
- Spot the difference
- A pauper at the door
- From bread queues to super yachts
- JGD: Thanks for the comment Ralph and I applaud all who set goals, but often observe that for many the same goals emerge year after year. Essentially you'r...
- Ralph: Interesting post. I admire you for being able to plan less. I have the exact opposite resolution this year. I am trying to plan more. Last year my...
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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