Author Archives: Jim Stewart

Knowing minds

I saw a report on TV today. A number of women in a town have had nude photographs of themselves uploaded to some web sites. Those interviewed had said they had originally uploaded them to a private web page. The … Continue reading

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Coffee time

I’m under instructions to exercise more. So today, in addition to my 5 mile night walk. I managed a 20 minute breakfast walk and a 2 mile lunch walk. The problem with the lunch walk is that it took me … Continue reading

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Here we go again

Today, for some reason, the press seemed to think that the Royal family had something to do with COVID. At least you would think so with all the questions at the briefing. The press were coming out all guns blazing … Continue reading

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Still the same

One of the things that people say of the original Star Trek is that it predicted modern technology. Things like the communicators, the computer tablets. Of course we don’t yet have warp drive, phasers or teleport (outside Area 51 that … Continue reading

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Learning to disbelieve

Religion has a lot to answer for. Not least some of our common problems. I was brought up in a non-denominational church. But it operated in a different way to a lot of churches. Different people from different denominations talked … Continue reading

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The joy of pain

I had some symptoms some months ago. There were two main options – one serious – one painful. I found myself hoping for pain. Turns out option three was minor glitch so I missed both serious and pain. It has … Continue reading

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Where did the week go?

Almost the end of the week and it feels like it has just started. Then I suddenly realised – this is March. Where did January and February go? And then I started to wonder whether I had the year right. … Continue reading

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A tale of two cities

While waiting for the PM question the BBC news team and some others engaged in some banter about Rishi Sunak. They went round the table talking about how they had all been trying to get people to dish the dirt … Continue reading

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To boldly go

I was watching the programme about researching family history via DNA tonight. One guy was looking for his father, a US GI that had visited his mother during the war. He was one of about a quarter of a million … Continue reading

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A day of news

There has been so much news today it can be hard to work out what the main story is. The former French president has been sentenced to Jail Rouge virus roaming the streets of the UK Amazing vaccine results Scottish … Continue reading

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