... Life After Traumatic Acquired Brain Injury... patrick.goodacre@yahoo.co.uk
Thursday 25 April 2024
Sunday 7 April 2024
'Alternative'
I always did consider myself as ‘alternative’ (or slightly different)
Why could I recognise other important issues, compared with everyone else?
Were they important, or was I fooling myself?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiIDeMWnsGM
Art-rock experimentalists!!
Drahler - Second Rhythm
I purchased this very recently so am not qualified to pass opinion on it too much!
I urge you to withstand the jazz cacophony that the album opens with!
They are a band that are new to me, but have been around, releasing their first album 5 years ago.
Alternative!
https://drahla.bandcamp.com/album/angeltape
I hate to shatter dreams, but SPORT IS BROKEN. Truthfully, only ‘professional sport’, but then every amateur uses the professional level as a target to aim for. Worshippers copy.
Problem.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/mar/02/mbappe-absurd-influence-of-footballs-mega-investors
Corruption is possible, everywhere. I admit to being a fan of professional cycling, therefore I have had my eyes opened since the 1990s. We must be aware, in Britain, as more money is poured into sport, and, primarily football. Athletes are asked to perform more and more at often inhumane levels, all for TV and sponsorship money. Professional sport is a business, less and less a sport. I warn you, open your eyes, do not be so hurt when truths are exposed. They always exist , even when hidden!
I am sat in a coffee shop having lunch, next to a group of young students discussing their stress, their problems, their future plans. I remember being similar. I’m so grateful that I have lived that life. I thank my lucky stars that I did not know how my life would end up! I turn forty years old this year! I am just still young enough to claim that it was under half of my life ago, my accident! Under twenty years of disability!
As I sat outside The French Tarte, finishing ‘Hello World by Hannah Fry’, I had the space and time to think deeply. I loved this book, but I was creating a few conclusions, of my own!…
Artificial Intelligence is extremely alarming,
but
Relax, safe in the knowledge that everything, everyone is unique, and always will be. As long as we exist in space and time, two constantly changing dimensions, ‘copies’ may become very close, but 100% identical clones, are impossible. Nothing could ever copy our reaction when we review ourselves. As long as humans have free will, identical cloning is an impossibility.
Saturday 16 March 2024
My current fix
So I open with a strange note that I hope is not past its best, as it still concerns a fresh topic.
Milk consumption has existed for many, many years, many centuries. The evolution of human consumption styles, must not stop. Recently we were feeling proud at ‘recycling’, by letting milkmen collect our glass milk-bottles for re-use.
Dairy milk is now vastly purchased at supermarkets, sold in LDPE plastic bottles. Yes, they are largely recyclable, however the use of the material should still be limited. Whilst the clear, transparent body, can be made of a very lightweight, thin plastic, my main issue is at the top!
Milk bottle lids
Surely these are problematic, dense materials which are difficult to recycle, as many rely on colour to define a milk-type…
Coloured - recycle problems
It is so much more difficult to recycle coloured plastics, than transparent ones.
https://sustainablebrands.com/read/waste-not/the-many-challenges-of-plastic-recycling
The heaviest, most dense part of the bottle, by far, is the lid.
Why can we not re-use these and save the plastic waste?
___ As many large yogurt pots seem to sell themselves using just a foil lid (encouraging us to re-use lids previously supplied), surely supermarkets can apply the same tactic to milk bottles?
They are all the same size, same thread. However they are usually a translucent colour which renders them useless for recycling. We customers, must be aware of this and ask our supermarkets to act more responsibly!
Hygiene issues?
I thought deeper, and the biggest problem must be to do with ‘Hygiene Issues’, but if the foil lid is maintained, there should be no difference to the current service provided?
I raised this issue directly in-store with the two large supermarkets in Surbiton. The only response I got was a rejection because of ‘health and safety’!…
Ah well, I tried (it sounds like an easy ‘get-out’, to me so I post my idea here, online)!
A few weeks ago, the 6Music festival was headlined by The Smile plus live orchestra!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001x8w9
The Smile
More more MORE
Faster faster FASTER
Again again AGAIN...
...We all need to WAKE-UP!
It was whilst I was in a Hydrotherapy session, I was reminded of the case I had promoted during a recent Physiotherapy session, the need for small-steps. It may sound obvious, but small-steps are such an important, easier task that EVERYONE MUST ADOPT!
The world is full of people that follow this route. They progress by constantly desiring more, faster, continuously!
This attitude is wrong, and clearly impossible to sustain. It is very difficult to comprehend a way of ‘growth forever’.
Bicycles supplied to all citizens, to end motor vehicles!...
A progressive idea, promoted in South-Western France...
The Mayor of 'Arachon' aims to offer a bike to every citizen. Around 16,000 have been given out since 2013!
My current FIX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37EN6J1Yh3Q
Play loud, with Bass UP!!
(Only when needed)
Friday 1 March 2024
We must be careful!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68405486
Finally, an example that the British people may want to break free from the power-monopoly that Labour/Conservatives have held for over a century. We are beyond this battle between Left and Right. Life cannot and must not constantly fit under either. I applause the electorate for voting with their heart, it may or may not be with their heads (we’ll see)!
Whilst I show my support in the paragraph above, I must also warn everyone. By breaking free, we show that extremes can win. Tory collapse, will result in the politicians returning under a different party-name, but with possibly extreme right-wing policies! Suella Braverman, Lee Anderson, Nigel Farage, all enjoy using their influential power to whip up fear and hate amongst us, towards, minorities! As public angst will grow, they will continue to whip-up support for their far-right policies.
Extremism is terrifying.
Far-right extremists have already gained too much power in many European countries, Putin maybe just flexing his muscles in Ukraine, Trump…
… can the USA make that mistake again?!!!
BBC’s Katya Adler explains how Europe is falling …
Look around Europe right now - north, south, east and west - and you see far-right parties of different flavours - nostalgic nationalist, populist nationalist, ultra conservative with neo-fascist roots and more - enjoying a notable resurgence….
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66056375
The step from Far-Right Politics to Fascism is so small…
Have we learnt nothing!?!!!
I need a coffee.
James Hoffmann (pictured above, coffee expert) and Professor Tim Spector (Kings College London) have an intense discussion on the benefits of coffee (plus ‘Decaf’)
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