MC Escher & Vermeer
Stories from the Hague #2 The “Het Palais” is a museum dedicated to the life and work of MC Escher. I happily spent hours looking at his wonderful prints, reading about his life, looking at...
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While comparing ‘Dentist’ stories with a Canadian colleague I menitoned that a Dentist working for the UK "National Health Service’ had ‘told me off’ for causing a filling he’d placed 3 weeks earlier...
View Articleit should be ok to cry at work
a not-Wendy person once said to me: “it should be ok to cry at work“ After I’d picked myself up off the floor and tended to my pending bruises (I’m prone to falling over). I considered that I’m...
View Articlerisking happiness
I love you I love you too Are you happy? No What do you need to make you happy? Not much, just to talk to you most days to hear the stories of your life, the laughter the pain, the stuff you normally...
View Articleenourmous insignificance
The early hours of a march morning, dew is forming on the grass, the clear skies above reveal more stars than I can count. After a long evening meandering around country lanes I found myself sat...
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My parents took the family on a day trip to London, to the Tate gallery. At 7 yrs I was not well equipped to appreciate the treasures on display. Mum and Dad seemed to spend ages looking at dull...
View ArticleHappy trio reading scheme
After my first 6 months in the English school system, in 1969, the school headmaster observed me to be: confident left-handed quiet producing interesting conversation enjoying drawing a slow reader...
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