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Collecting Pocket Calculators
I collect old calculating machines for a hobby, anything, like shop counter adding, specialised scientific calculators, financial ones etc. Any old...
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Confusing the Complicated Man
The secret of Archimedes According to the Archimedes buoyancy principle a floating object displaces its own weight in water. The proof it turns out...
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Escape of the Boer Swimmers
During the South African War (October 1899 – May 2002) many Boers were taken prisoner and exiled by the British Army. Most of the prisoner of war...
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Class of '84
Also your greatest of all advantage in a chess game is to have your opponent underestimate you. Myself don't attend reunions I'm usually busy then,...
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Gospel Concert
We went to some gospel concerts at the rugby stadium it was Don Francisco he never asked entrance fees only donations, even for the songs, free on...
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Sorry Di I honestly did not mean
Posted on Sun, 06 Feb 2022
Sorry Di I honestly did not mean to criticise your work at all and I don't recall that I ever have. It is a great poem. But please keep in mind any good teacher knows one often learns more from your mistakes and by the way I'm also out of a job....
Read full commentPosted in February Rainbow
Those old magic photos
Posted on Mon, 07 Oct 2024
Those old magic photos Jenny! I think they call them kodak moments. Something like that. These days people have so many photos they're hard to find Hey? What strikes me how happy we are me & my brother on all of them there are hundreds codac...
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enough
Posted on Tue, 27 Aug 2024
You never know what is enough, untill you know what is too much / The road excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
I read these in poems of William Blake, in the proverbs of hell.
Good luck! Tom
Read full commentPosted in Never Enough?
The elephant and ant
Posted on Tue, 25 Jun 2024
The elephant and ant were walking together over the bridge, the ant said "We make this bridge shake hey?!"
We usually say an elephant "trumpets" or such, but you can say "roar" if you like why not?
Keep well, greetings from Africa!...
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Yes
Posted on Tue, 14 Sep 2021
Yes. Beautiful ending, man's best friend. Heartbreaking sometimes we feel a duty for mourning. And indeed, it is much more noble to live for someone than to die for someone, sometimes living takes great courage.
Keep well Paul! Tom
Read full commentPosted in With or Without You
No doubt inspired
Posted on Mon, 16 Mar 2020
No doubt inspired by Jules Verne's classic scifi novel 20,000 leagues under the sea. Also makes one think of Jacques C. and the research ship the Calypso.
Good work, original too! We are in, looking out, man and fish roles reversed! Who's...
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it's good to be young
Posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2014
It's good to be young and insane.
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Bind us Together
Posted on Sun, 03 Aug 2025
Bind us together Lord, bind us together Lord
Bind us together, bind us together with Love
Bind us, bind us together Lord bind us together Lord
Bind us together with chords that cannot be broken
Bind...
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Romance
Posted on Fri, 01 Aug 2025
The harp is beuatiful I like panflute also, like a really grand date, an anniversary leaving the kids with parents and that, to re-discover true romance!
The story where King Saul threw David with his spear just as he was bending down also...
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Good story Jenny!
Posted on Thu, 24 Jul 2025
Good story Jenny! "whispered through threads of conversation",
All the best! Tom
Read full commentPosted in Hollyhock Tears Or Whispers Of Gods.
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