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A fairly short post this week.

I am forced to shop on a fairly low budget, which I do very well! I supermarket-shop, with a conscience. I try and shop 'ethically'...

I am able to shop in a wide range of Surbiton shops. I tend to buy toiletries in Boots, or more, if i see fit, in Poundland. I keep to a strict budget, when doing my weekly grocery shop, but into Waitrose I go. I have made myself very aware of some basic foods, keeping within a budget. Personally, i think it is very good, having 12-month availability of some foods. However, I also believe that packaging and transportation costs must be made minimal, by everyone. Shops must encourage the sale of ‘homegrown foods’.  Whilst, this perhaps seems a very ‘Brexit-attitude’, this is obviously not why i argue for such. The volumes of (often non-biodegradable) polymer-waste that are used, to protect those perishable vegetables on flights across the world, need to be exposed. 

The total environmental cost of such transportation of 'fresh fruit and vegetables' is huge and sickening, but remains hidden because some businesses are making too much money, for it ever to be exposed fully!

I own up to half-pint of Guinness accompanying me, whilst i type many of these notes on Tuesday evening. My excuse being that i spent a 5-minute session on my gym-bike 'in-the-zone', for the first time this year!

Thursday 23rd, day of 'Doris', my coffee call was felt greater by me.

As you've been reading for over six years, this blog is entirely singular. Me, me, me, all about me. This is because i need to check that my mind is working as regular humans expect. Strange, yes, but working well (maybe)! My best, closest friends are also my oldest friends. I may have never been considered to be amazingly sociable, and currently I feel in need of MY mind's lonesome strength. I do not find 'making friends' too easy, now. This scares me a lot. Friends are difficult, girlfriends are near-impossible! Fear not though, forget, continue. What'll be, will be!

Music. Some clips of my music hero performing tracks, solo. I just found this yesterday, as a friend posted the video on Facebook

Thom Yorke (Live) - A Legend And His Piano (Best Piano Performances)

It is only through typing this post, that I find a similar video of another of my heroes...

Richard Ashcroft - A Legend And His Guitar (Best Live Performances)

I am now suffering, have to choose which one to listen to first! ...

...Mr Yorke wins! ;)

My/our latest creation...

Kingston Green Party Newsletter - Spring 2017

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Last week, I advertised this blog through the usual social-media pages, and it seemed as popular as ever. However, I was then amused to find a reaction that was rather unexpected!...

I realised that this was my first ever unknown critic of the blog. Criticism must always be viewed as a possible source of improvements.

… So i want to find if this is a view shared, and must i react accordingly, changing my style?

Or is it a singular/lonesome view?

patrick.goodacre@yahoo.co.uk

or, just leave a comment here, on my blog (click link under each post).

Tuesday 14th, I tried to distract myself, by publishing a social-media ‘remembrance of cycling legend, Marco Pantani’.

However mid-afternoon, i was out, i was brought back to sad reality, on hearing the opening organ tune of ’Oh lover, you should've come over’. I had to stay in the shop for the entire tune. Back home, and I had to play the entire copy of ‘Grace’ loud enough to accompany myself singing EVERY WORD of the entire album!

15th day after Valentines, back on ‘my bike’! 

Although I have kept 'legs turning' over Winter/Christmas, by using the 'bike' machine, at the gym,  I have selected this as a good date to 're-discover' my home gym-bike. The '2017' folder has it's first two entries of stats. My primary aim is to 'peak fitness', at the beginning of April.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/16/escape-overthinking-trap-stop-juding-yourself?platform=hootsuite

‘Thinking is what gave humans ascendancy. But overthinking is threatening to bring us down. 

We need a completely new relationship with our thoughts. Instead of viewing the world and our experience as we think they ought to be, we need to treat them as they actually are. We need to recognise when we are ruining a day, a week, a moment or a relationship with catastrophic thoughts and judgments, and understand that often it is the thought itself that makes us feel bad, not the experience itself.’

……..

Although humans have the beautiful ability of creativity, forward thinking, planning and designing. It is also the reason that our minds can be unhappy and full of despair. Whilst we can plan creation of wonderful joy, we can also foresee a lack of this, resulting in bad, negative thinking. By living life, it may be best to avoid introspective thoughts, and so concentrate on what we experience…

‘Critical thinking has undoubtedly advanced our cause and become one of the essential assets of being so brilliantly human, but introspective thinking – our near constant self-evaluation, who we are, where we fit, how we compare – is becoming one of the most destructive aspects of modern life. We must purge it.’

I am an Arsenal fan. Depressing times at the moment, has led me to follow my 'Second team', closely, La Viola. Thursday evening, Fiorentina also played away in Germany, in the Europa League. A solid, defensive performance was iced with a scintillating free-kick by Federico Bernardeschi. My prediction is that he has such talent, Fiorentina will not be able to keep him. He will lead Juventus to success in the Champion's League.

Federico Bernardeschi - ‘il migliore’

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It snowed today!

I find NOTHING better, than creating an attractive girl’s beautiful smile.

Hehehe, I can only ever do this to complete strangers (if I know them, this beauty may be recognised, but I must remain silent otherwise embarrassment is caused for them)! I am always confident approaching, I always apologise for such, as I realise that I am very strange to do this, and I do not want to cause any fear. I just continue, by telling the honest truth about why i find her attractive (usually dark eyes, dark hair).  I may use a bit of ‘aesthetics language’, complimenting whatever  I am stunned by. If a beautiful smile is induced, i win! I never expect anything back. As long as i create the smile, I am sooooo happy. A smile is infectious.

:)

Why do i do this? I am very much a visual-person. I cannot approach girls, any other way. I am not in the position that i can wonder, slyly into a club on a Friday night, flirt, drink and dance (this was never me anyway). There is no hiding a wheelchair. Therefore, just go for it. I have no inhibitions left to keep hidden.

Monday- Fruit juice craving

Monday was strange. Instead of my 'love for coffee', I had an unusually strong craving for fruit juice!

Resulting in 'lack of coffee' (or 'less'). I feared a 'fruit-juice powered Patrick' was going to have t suffice the gym! So, i admit, that i dashed into Caffe **** (a high street chain shop).

No-one sees black, no-one sees white. Whilst it can be brilliant (or tragic) to group things as 'black' or 'white'. True extremes only exist conceptually. White is 'nothing', black is 'everything'. For either’s existence, one must recognise that you are actually considering it as a contrast between itself and the opposite black/white extremity. White is not a colour. Black is all colours, compiled.

Unkle - James Lavelle is returning! :)

Sick lullaby  - feat. Keaton Henson

My journey home from typing this piece, found me in an ultra-mini snow-storm, as i traversed across Kingston Bridge!

I felt child-like, in the joy i was experiencing!

Many of my apocalyptic predictions that involved me never experiencing snowfall again,  banished!

A rubbish photo, but then, it WAS snowing!!

far away

"Whatever makes us, has yet to be found"

Far away

Martha Wainwright's self-titled album, released in 2005, a brilliant, lifelong love. Her deep lyrics are all sung in her perfect, orchestral voice.

Last Friday, I felt rather negative once I had posted on my blog. So I went to the local coffee shop/bar, to help. Surprise, surprise, not a coffee, but a Guinness!! 

The Rolling Stones title, off their latest album, kept spinning around my head.

Blue and Lonesome.

However, I had viewed, in amazement and pride, that this blog is proving more popular than ever.

Last Friday blog monthly pageview count surpassed 2000. January 2017 reached a total pageview count of 2,439. Interestingly, this blog, recently, is most popular in France! Je ne comprends pas, parceque c'est en Anglais!

Si vous êtes Francais, pourquoi est mon blogspot (ici) populaire, en France 🇫🇷?

C'est ne pas de probleme, mais, pourquoi?

J'aime ca, beaucoup

patrick.goodacre@yahoo.co.uk

Scary assumptions by general public.

I was alarmed by speaking to a member of the public, who I see most weeks when I catch the bus to gym. I found out that she had assumed that I have been 'wheelchair bound', all of my life! Ten years, OK, but I am an 'Injured Human Being'. I am so lucky that I had lived fully, in my 'first life'. 

I feel mature enough to 'laugh off' such wrong assumptions. It can hurt that people can assume 'I am disabled, probably 'a permanently disabled one', and therefore I have severe mental problems'. No comment.

I smile. Why do I always smile? It is a grey, damp, gloomy day, but I am smiling.

I find myself making the above comment, with satisfaction.

It may be dull weather, grey and wet, but I am filled with happiness when I recognise everyone else's face of misery and depression. Therefore I know that i relatively feel good. This is similar to mind-games and mental-issues whilst cycling (never project weakness, use other's such, to project positivity).

Egging as 'public disapproval'

Hmmm. Public humiliation... 

The way to really get to those politicians who are promoting such divisive nationalism.  No-one can throw across the breadth of the Atlantic, so he should be welcomed to come across to Britain and the eggs. Of course NF is a perfect, British trial. He must not be excused!

Take life as it comes 

Personally, I have been forced into this pattern of life. I know that we cannot plan anything with 100.00% certainty. People may try, and may succeed but I am sorry, nothing is ever 100.000000000000% infinitely certain. We have to remain open. We must accept that **** happens, but we must realise that incredibly good things can happen too. Everything equals. Be prepared for the journey of your life!