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The Investing Game

$5K - 52 Weeks - 20 Penny Stocks One Winner!! Current Status ( -$2,772.61 ) Week - 19 Summer Solstice! I don’t know why I take an interest in the Solstice. I’m not a practicing Druid or anything. Yet the movement of the planet in its steady, majestic procession around the sun evokes a feeling of reverence and awe within me. The Solstice coincides with my birth month and often causes me to ponder the very temporary nature of my existence as seen...

An Impossible Love, BBC 1, BBC iPlayer, writers Catherine Corsini, Laurette Polmanss, Christine Angot, and Director Catherine Corsini.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000x8l2/an-impossible-love A French film, with English subtitles. Set on the cusp of the swinging sixties, it begins as a coming-of-age drama. We are told in voice-over by Chantal (Estelle Lescure and the older Chantal played by Jehnny Beth) how her mother, beautiful, young Rachel (Virginie Efira) meets Philippe (Niels Schneider) at a local dance. He’s down from Paris to sub-rural hicksville and works as a...

The Investing Game

$5K - 52 Weeks - 20 Penny Stocks One Winner!! Current Status ( -$2,739.71 ) Week - 18 Last Week’s BIG Winner! Me... I hit a penny poker machine for 64 bucks with 4 aces! That’s after dropping a pair of twenty dollar bills into the beast. Net gain of 24 dollars and a demonstration of the long play patient approach to gambling, investing, and life in general. Vacation was good, played golf, saw the kids, had some adventures and good food, saw LIVE...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration point 18 June 2021

Story and Poem of the Week chosen by Ewan. I’m sure this gets harder every week. Or at least harder every time it's my turn. Story of the Week goes to Penny4athought’s continuing series “Willow’s Tail 11” https://www.abctales.com/story/penny4athought/willows-tail-11 the rest of it is here. https://www.abctales.com/collection/willows-tail Poem of the Week, against some fierce competiton, is Deliberately Evolving’s tribute to a much-missed member...

Time, BBC 1, BBC iPlayer, written by Jimmy McGovern and directed by Lewis Arnold.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p09fs2x4/time-series-1-episode-1 https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p09fs2x6/time-series-1-episode-2 https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p09fs2x8/time-series-1-episode-3?seriesId=p09fs2tp Writer Jimmy McGovern guarantees quality, his production company is a must have drama factory for BBC, and his series gets the full marketing treatment and premium billing on Sunday-night telly. Our viewing habits have...

The Investing Game

$5K - 52 Weeks - 20 Penny Stocks One Winner!! Current Status ( -$2,598.83 ) Week - 17 Of Mice and Amoeba! And microscopes... I’m endlessly fascinated with the unseen. Electrons! Can’t see them, almost can’t even find them. At best get a pretty good idea where one is. Ah but get a whole bunch of them moving around in a sort of chorus line symphony and there you are listening to Hip Hop on headphones riding home on the subway. WHEN: Monday June 7...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Some really wonderful stories and poems to choose from this week - thank you so much for posting them! Story of the Week goes to poetjude for First Visit which has stayed with me since I first read it, and Poem of the Week goes to onemorething's wonderful prose poem Garden At Dawn: https://www.abctales.com/story/poetjude/first-visit https://www.abctales.com/story/onemorething/garden-dawn Very honourable mentions to skinner_jennifer for her...

Donald S Murray (2021) In a Veil of Mist.

I had a quick read through Donald S Murray’s novel In a Veil of Mist. ‘The Veil of Mist he refers to was inspired by something that happened. A marketing tool, the hook of this is inspired by true events (or factual as we like to call it). My favourite storytellers aren’t fictional writers but factual writers. You can slip a fag paper between the truth and lie. The story is set in 1952, the Ben Lomond operated and staffed by British sailors and...

Story and Poem of the Month

Story and Poem of the Month for May have very kindly been chosen by hudsonmoon: “It's May, it's May, the month of yes you may The time for every frivolous whim, proper or im It's wild, it's gay, a blot in every way The birds and bees with all of their vast amorous past Gaze at the human race aghast” So say Lerner and Lowe in Camelot. What do I say? I say you bunch make it difficult to make an easy decision when it comes to doing the monthly pick...

Happiness is a warm Keyboard=I live to and love to write

Write and they shall come….at least that’s what happened when I began writing Willow’s Tail . A day after I posted the first chapter, I kid you not, a tiny black and white cat sauntered into my front garden and made itself at home. The cat, I believe, lives next door or at least that's where I'd always seen it, lying on their porch or lawn but ever since that first day I posted, it decided to check out our shaded garden. It now spends leisurely...

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