$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...

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...

$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...

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...

$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...

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...

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...

$5K - 52 Weeks - 20 Penny Stocks One Winner!! Current Status ( -$2,644.02 ) Week - 16 Ahhh West and Weewaxation! And no Wabbits.. I’m on wacation .. I mean vacation this week! My wife and I have been looking at RV’s for a couple of years now. We like the 5th wheel layout for its larger interior space. Downside is the need to purchase a substantial pick up truck to tow the beast. I’ll need to see a remarkable improvement in this selection of...

Two more wonderful pieces for our Picks this week. Story of the Week goes to Terrence Oblong's 'The Word Police'. Funny, surreal, and yet so very, very familiar to those of us attempting to extract inspiration from our little grey cells and get something, anything, on the page: The Word Police | ABCtales Poem of the Week is bhi's beautiful 'In the shadow of geraniums'. A vivid, thought-provoking piece full of colour and life, its imagery lingers...

How Dublin’s coastline inspired my writing during the Covid pandemic Growing up in Drimnagh in the 1980s the sea seemed very distant. To go for a walk along a beach meant taking buses and trains, and you would be away for the entire day. My mother would reminisce about her childhood holidays in Rush and in 2001, unable to afford anything closer to the city, my wife and I bought a house there. All we knew about Rush beforehand was that it was the...