Means to an end

An early episode of the long-running sci-fi TV series Star Trek was titled "The Menagerie" in which the Captain, Captain Pike suffered a hideous fate. Left terribly disabled and very much inability to do very much at all.   He was paralyzed as well as being hideously disfigured and the only movement left to him was [...]

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The curse of having red hair in England

It has long been known that having red hair will cause you to be a target of fun and ridicule often. Because as hair colours go, even though in England we have more red heads than anywhere else, its still the minority of hair colours. So people with red hair stand out. I’m not sure [...]

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Call to diligence

What reason have you, why you should not presently embrace the Call of God, and thankfully lay hold on the first opportunity and season of salvation? Have you any greater matters in hand than the salvation of your precious souls? Is there anything in the world that more concerns you? If the affairs of this [...]

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O England!

O England full of sin, but most of sloth,
Thy gentry bleats, as if thy native cloth,
Transfused a sleepiness into thy story.
Not that they are all so, but that the most
Are gone to grass and in the pasture lost. [G. Herbert]

 

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Let's call the whole thing off!

You say potato, we say potaaato but what do you and we say about cuts of beef?
Winston Churchill (amongst others) is credited as saying two people, divided by a common language when talking about England and the United States.  The proof is in the pudding! Or in this case beef!

America’s cuts of beef

And England’s!

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Let's call the whole thing off!

You say potato, we say potaaato but what do you and we say about cuts of beef?
Winston Churchill (amongst others) is credited as saying two people, divided by a common language when talking about England and the United States.  The proof is in the pudding! Or in this case beef!

America’s cuts of beef

And England’s!

Read Full Post »

Let's call the whole thing off!

You say potato, we say potaaato but what do you and we say about cuts of beef?
Winston Churchill (amongst others) is credited as saying two people, divided by a common language when talking about England and the United States.  The proof is in the pudding! Or in this case beef!

America’s cuts of beef

And England’s!

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Strong vs Weak

Sometimes people think, because I am short of cognitive ability I am of no account or to be reckoned with; as if God is impotent towards people like me, and leaves them helpless and useless. The kind who will do this, are normally those who set themselves up as their own god in their own [...]

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Manual on wheelchair driving 101

This may be  more of a don’t do as I do, for your own well being! As I’m a bit of a daredevil in my wheelchair. I think its majorly the reason I learned in such a short time to get around in it as well as I do. I amaze and confound everyone by [...]

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Ever feel this way?

  I seem to almost every week for a day or two. Sometimes it goes away for longer, but it never goes away for very long.  I seem to be at a point I could get more light and understanding, and so bring real comfort into this affliction which I so often lack right now, [...]

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