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@wisegreyowl@mastodonapp.uk
mastodon 4.6.8I've had a rich working life that I would now like to forget. I write and I like to help writers too (really).
I live in Yorkshire and love walking. Have hiked the UK #CoastToCoast, #HadriansWall and the #ClevelandWay plus others and #trekked in China, Nepal, Vietnam & Morocco.
I have macular degeneration and want to make the most of my sight whilst I have it, so I like to paint, photograph & follow artists & photographers.
Seize the day for they become shorter.
He/Him
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Joined November 18, 2022
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Promoting Yorkshire Authors:
Favourite Yorkshire Authors:
Annie Eileen Rogers
Joseph Murphy-James
and Paul Smith, of course!
Writer's Blog:
Pud the black and white cat, this time grabbing my preferred chair for his perpetual sleeping exercise.
#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon
Wasn't sure whether to post this but... it is part of our history. This is Eden Camp near Malton, Yorkshire, a former Prisoner of War camp for Italian combatants during WWII, now a modern history museum. This was one of the accommodation units, roughly built and probably icy cold during the British winters. The kids will love the tanks, especially when they move!
#FensterFreitag #FenêtreVendredi #ViernesDeVentana #FfenestrDyddGwener #WindowFriday
Pud the black and white cat, thankful for the end of the heatwave, as am I 😉.
#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon
Today it is 40 years
since we moved
into our house.
Before we lived here,
we'd moved every
2 to 3 years.
I guess we can
call it home now.
#HomeSweetHome
Fiddling while Rome burns?
"... Anthropic, devoted roughly a third of its IPO prospectus to warnings of the existential risks to humanity of its technology, ahead of its listing, which is expected later this year and could be the largest ever."
Quote Courtesy The Economist
#AI #Folly #EasterIslandMoment
You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Courtesy The Economist
#Quote #Writer #AmWriting
Built for the covid era, this shelter is outside the Craven Arms, Appletreewick. We had lunch in there isolated from the elements (& virus transmission) and the window overlooked the lovely North Yorkshire countryside of Wharfedale.
#FensterFreitag #FenêtreVendredi #ViernesDeVentana #FfenestrDyddGwener #WindowFriday
The days have become warmer, hotter even, for Pud the black and white cat. Here he is, soaking up the morning sun before he retreats into the shade as the day progresses. It's a dog's life? Nope, it's a cat's.
'Good morning', said Pud the black and white cat.
#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon
Pud the black and white cat posing for a photo.
#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon
Pud the black and white cat pondering life, the universe and everything.
#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon
A view through the ruined window of Fountains Abbey, sacked by the tyrant King Henry VIII, to view what remains of the buildings beyond.
#FensterFreitag #FenêtreVendredi #ViernesDeVentana #FfenestrDyddGwener #WindowFriday
An old farmhouse building with tiny windows and a whitewashed wall in Flamborough, East Yorkshire.
Ein altes Bauernhaus mit winzigen Fenstern und einer weiß getünchten Wand in Flamborough, East Yorkshire.
#FensterFreitag #FenêtreVendredi #ViernesDeVentana #FfenestrDyddGwener #WindowFriday
#SilentSunday (Late today)
The sun's out again for Pud the black and white cat.
#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon
Pud the black and white cat says, 'Go away, I'm tired.'
#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon
Pud the black and white cat in his own bed just for a change.
#catutday #catsofmastodon
A person who has not done one half their day’s work by ten o’clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
Emily Brontë
Courtesy The Economist
*Certainly applies to writing
#Quote
In Jerez de la Frontera, Andalusia, Spain, a traditional balcony enclosed with a window.
#FensterFreitag #FenêtreVendredi #ViernesDeVentana #FfenestrDyddGwener #WindowFriday
A blast from the past in winter time.
#FensterFreitag #FenêtreVendredi #ViernesDeVentana #FfenestrDyddGwener #WindowFriday
Here's a challenge for you AI boys and girls (but mostly boys):
The brain manages it's wonderous feats using a spoonfull of glucose.
Before you go covering the planet with data centers, solve the problem of AI consuming too many resources.
#AI #EasterIslandMoment #DataCentreMadness
Have car manufacturers bought up all the grey, black and white paint? Seems that colour is yesterday's thing 🚗.
What's Sir David got that Garage, Badenuff, Palmer, et al, don't have.
That's easy: principles, humility, a quiet presence and truly popular.
More than ever, we need a vote for 'None of the Above' and they stand down for 5 years if we vote for nobody. Then we vote again for new people.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
English Poet & Novelist, 1800's.
Courtesy The Economist
*Everyone could learn from this.
Parenting was different then: my mother told me after I'd failed the 11+ exam (itself a failed selection method to fit available grammar school places to a bell curve) that 'I wasn't as clever as I thought I was.'
I didn't need much of a push but that impetus gave me the boost to prove her wrong. And, I did.
#ParentingInThe50s
I wonder if Artificial Insanity doom scrolls like humans do?
#AI
What am I reading?
Nearly finished Matt Haig's 'How to Stop Time'. A bit similar to The Midnight Library, though a different story, with its flying about. Might try another of Matt's but am finding the wandering in place and time and prose a little tedious.
Next to read: 'Death Do they Part' by Jonathan Whitelaw, 3rd in the Parker Sisters' (Cosy) Mystery series. Something lighter after Matt's tome.
My own book 'A Question of Resistance' by Paul Smith, a time-slip novel is being reviewed by a book club in Northallerton & I am going to the club to answer questions and listen to their critique next week. 'Scared' doesn't do my trepidation justice!
#Reading #AmReading #Novels #Books #TimeSlip
Where hope rises
fear must lurk
behind.
Anne Brontë, English novelist and poet (1820–1849)
Courtesy The Economist
Maybe we have to accept that we don't need all of this STUFF and be happy with 3 meals a day, fresh water, sanitation, health and one little luxury (a cup if tea, I am British after all).
#WhatMatters
A power in decline is dangerous.
Russia proves the case in point.
Quote from The Triangle of Power
by Alexander Stubb
(President of Finland).
... and so does the USA.
There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.
Harry S Truman
American Politician and Leader
Courtesy The Economist
The planet fights back. The Jet Stream is wrapping the UK in an arctic blanket. Brrr ... unusually chilly for May.
#ClimateChange #Environment #Weather
What am I reading?
*Rory Clement's WWII series: A Prince & a Spy, plus Hitler's Secret.
*The Finest Hotel in Kabul by Lyse Doucet.
Just finished: All at Sea, cosy(ish) crime and funny with it, by Jonathan Whitelaw
Recommend: Heythwaite Series by Annie Eileen Rogers
Always reluctant to recommend a book ... we're all different.
Ich bin Ingenieur.
Soy ingeniero.
Je suis ingénieur.
Peiriannydd ydw i.
I've discovered (late) Rory Clement's WWII period books, lots with surprising twists. I am reading 'The English Führer' at present, all starring Tom Wilde, an unlikely hero as a Professor of History and Secret Service operative.
I think I will probably read the whole series. If you like this period of history and it's parallels today, it might be for you.
#Reading #Books #Novels #AmReading
Piglet: This new world order is super, Pooh.'
Pooh: You think? Why'd you say that?
Piglet: To win you just have to get stronger and do stuff to make the other side weaker.
Eyore: He's doing that for himself.
Pooh: Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake.
Piglet: I know who said that.
Pooh: You do? It was attributed to Napoleon.
Eyore: Oh, I thought it was President Xi.
Piglet: I bet he said it too.
On behalf of my Community Group, please support the charity if you are able by buying the correction of Children's stories and poems entitled 'I want a Crocodile and Make it Snappy'.
#Reading #AmReading #Novels #Books #Children
Replying to
@sjcooke66 @Cyclist 😉 Not everyone will understand that... but they were our pandemic saviour treat.
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@LaserdiscTurtle@mas.to One of our favourite places for a wander... especially as we live pretty close to it.
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@kralcttam@mastodon.social They're not listening to reason... actually or anything or anyone but their own mouthpieces.
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@ketan@climatejustice.social I think this might be our Easter Island moment where we continue to consume resources building totems until all of the resources are gone.