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I have an announcement…. I’ve got 3 bodies! Sweet, savoury and fit. Note to self, fit applies to well balanced, which implies consistency, which means effort, translation… rare! Very rare, especially in winter when keeping warm turns into another slice of cake please or what some refer to as empty calories (crisps, candy etc). Well they’re not so empty if the scale clearly knows where to find them. But I digress! It’s the sweet body I’m...

I consume these books like sweets. A guilty secret. Guilt is always bad for you. You know how it goes. Anita Moorjani died then she has a choice whether she wanted to come back to this world, or stay where she was, heaven. Heaven is not a place with celestial gates and angels strumming harps, rather it is a state of bliss. Since there is no such thing as time, it could be said to be eternal. We know she came back, because here she is telling the...

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I wrote this book for my university degree, I 'm going to give it away for free Tuesday 20th Aug to 25th as a Kindle book, then retire it, so that will be the last chance to get it. https://amzn.to/2KRbH9D The link is a UK link, but the book is available everywhere. Just search your country Amazon.

My wife and I bought an old church a year ago, we live in it and hope to turn it into an arts and language venue. We are also holding poetry nights and writing retreats! www . lochcarronchurch .com One problem is, it needs a new roof! It is an interesting story as about 13 years ago the church was hacked from the graveyard and sold. So it is like a private island in the middle of a council graveyard. Luckily we have electric, but other than that...

Serhii Plokhy’s history of Chernobyl won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2018. He tells us what happened when reactor No 4 in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant, named after Vladimir Lenin, exploded after what should have been a routine maintenance test on 26 th April 1986. First to arrive where firemen, who hooked up their hoses and treated it as a routine fire, no immediate threat to the around 5000 workers and their families living...

It's been a brilliant week on ABC. Not only have we had some wonderful work, but in response to the IP writers have been reading out their work either on their own Soundcloud or on the ABC Soundcloud account. Please keep doing it! Our Story of the Week is insertponceyfrenchnamehere's lovely 'Katy, A Ghost Story'. Insert is usually to be found commenting on other people's work and providing invaluable assistance to our new and existing members on...

I'm having a clean out. Lots of my older stuff will be removed shortly. A lot of it hasn't been looked at in years anyway - and some of it is a bit iffy. So don't worry, I haven't spat the dummy. I'm just spring cleaning - even though it's not spring.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0007mxm/when-bridges-collapse-the... Forty-three people died, scores more were injured and 600 people lost their home when the Polcevera Bridge in Genoa collapsed on 14th August 2018. One survivor described how the road disappeared before him and it was like being in a cartoon. It was Italy’s worst ever road-bridge disaster. A design fault that allowed water to pool and steel cables to fray was blamed, but...