nothing to see here a #phantom once said to me I'm not sure if it was an inner voice that spoke to me I was just a child and the phantom appeared as a distortion of light there didn't really appear to be any substance to this apparition but there it was on the staircase of our house #vss365

it is our anniversary my #affection for you has grown over the years we booked into a hotel yesterday and the sun is shining on us today the weather has changed from yesterday which was cold we had a bit too much to eat and drink and felt sorry during the night but this is our day #vss365

I felt the #fury when I was young and sometimes even now but then I catch myself and think they are just like me they want to be happy well live in peace and be free from suffering that is my prayer we need to unpeel the layers of our ego for fury cant live there all our atoms feel this #vss365

I suppose everything has a #name known only to the Universe the stones and grass even you and me all things but what are we an animal encasing something brighter our very own shining star that never dies we all hope so don't we otherwise we would be like dodgems until the power goes off #vss365

the #lion nebula situated in the arm of Perseus in the Milky Way the lioness shape viewed through the Hubble is subjective two Wolf-Rayet stars ionize the nebula primarily an emission nebula it's too dim to be viewed by the naked eye our starships 1000's of them are hidden there #vss365

the #dichotomous is probably extinct now it lived in Africa about 2000 years ago it's mentioned in Virgil's Eclogues as living partly in water with some of its feet webbed while its other feet capable of running really fast with eight legs and a height of 3m weighing 200kg scary #vss365

you know the heat generated by #lightning is hotter than the surface of the sun She's thunderstorms. Lying on her front. Up against the wall. She's thunderstorms. I've been feeling foolish. Arctic Monkeys I feel foolish too she is cumulus towering cloud there is little or no rain flash #vss365

I've always fancied being a #tactician chess volleyball fencing played a lot games when young cards strategy golf ruby it's all just a blur even boxing karate table tennis but I never excelled and so it goes the years pass chemistry maths philosophy psychology computing if x then y #vss365

a protoplanet #hit the earth 4 billion years ago were you there #lunar glancing blow almost as big as mars were you there lunar a temporary ring formed around earth like saturn were you there lunar gases coalesced and gravity caused the moon to form were you there lunar I was I was #vss365

I've always been interested in #psychopomps the guiders of souls Charon Anubis Peter Michael Vanth Yama Bees Dogs Wolves Owls the death walkers who will be with us in those last hours between life and death we will all face this you me plants dogs cats even our sun one day and so on #vss365

bobby spook two #cats I shared a home with one tortoise shell the other pure black they were both idiosyncratic in their own way fussy about their food both very clean predators both bringing little presents to our home terror of our garden opportunistic killers taunters teasers #vss365

gone #fishing #vss365

canis lupus #wolves are social creatures hunting in packs they howl to say hello to their pals and warn others to stay away also better than gps to give their exact location I've tried it myself but other people were not the least sympathetic to my efforts saying it wasn't normal #vss365

#jade is big in China and New Zealand too purification protection longevity made up of two minerals jadeite nephrite it's a tough stone it's been used for over 5000 years jewelry ornaments tools even weapons some call it the Stone of Heaven encouraging self-acceptance building love #vss365

I had a car with #underseal once a long time ago it had a German name which I don't wish to publicise but needless to say the car gave up before the underseal failed so I've bored myself now but the car was a sports car too fast for me the same engine was in formula 4 at the time #vss365

#trickery do you have to come from Billericay clever eh an Essex market town famous for being the home of Gavin & Stacey but what about trickery I hear you ask quite reasonably well it Is trickery that I talk about Billericay when the topic is trickery a sort of deceit fraud cheating #vss365

I thought about the word #investiture it made laugh because it doesn't look like a proper word but it is someone as ordinary as me has never gone through this in fact maybe I've seen them only on tv royalty religious academic the word comes from vestire to clothe prepare for the new #vss365

I grew up with #seafoam after we left our farm moving close to the sea built my first raft with fish boxes and empty oil drums the sea foam like some shaving adornment for Poseidon and us the Argonauts braving the tides planks for paddles we were Kings crabs and fish waving in acclaim #vss365

I'm reading a detective book where the key piece of prosecution evidence is a #hammer but can it be tied to the defendant that's the key question there's none of her dna on it only the victim's but but her hammer is missing from her garage is this it I'm still reading gosh yikes #vss365

I try my best with #words writing simple little posts in an almost spontaneous way editing on the move it gives a snapshot of my life as I engage with whatever prompt is submitted that's it really #vss365

code if n = 1 then #loop n+2 end code if n=2 then loop n+1 end code if n=3 then loop n+1 end code if n=4 then loop n+1 end code if n=5 then loop n+1 end this is me creating imaginary code it's meaningless like a lot of the things loop it's meaningless like a like a lot of things loop #vss365

the art of #letter writing has gone dear aunt how are you liking the home you're in if it was me I'd be planning my escape hiding provisions and clothes taking an id and off you go the 36 bus will take you far don't forget some cash and a disguise is good a foreign accent will throw them #vss365

I used to crack this chemistry joke that HOH #water was the simplest alcohol I told it to Hilary of course she was first in science I think you'll find the formula for an alcohol involves Carbon CnH2n+1 OH or R-OH where R is a hydroxyl group if I remember correctly you're no fun I said #vss365

I remember as a child my mother would lift me up and put me in the kitchen #sink to wash the muck off those days I remember fondly the dogs with their heads low and ears back tails under if they'd done something to get the wrong side of mother or worse still father his moods famous #vss365

as a small child my mother would always #sing to me some of those old Perry Como Doris Day Elvis Presley songs were imprinted into my baby brain my parents would sing in the morning before getting up that was to warm them up the farm could be cold in Winter happy times happy #vss365

I got my yearly eye test a few days ago the optician said my eye sight had hardly changed from last year he said how long have you had your glasses eight years I said that's a long time wouldn't you like a new pair (I thought I don't want to be robbed #blind) no I said these do me fine #vss365

you know #banks could do a lot more to combat evil in the world they are driven by profit you know banks could do a lot more to combat evil in the world all those transactions going through their books everything you can imagine you know banks could do a lot more to combat evil... #vss365

I always remember as a child being amazed at my father's #arm muscles they seemed huge my child arms were puny as I grew up I tried to match my father's strength but I never did my father was a different man grew up in the war he enlisted when young he had bullets goggles jacket #vss365

let my #hands be gentle hands so the prayer goes our Church was packed for Easter Sunday families appeared that I'd never seen before the children got chocolate eggs the minister explained the resurrection off Christ his body disappearing but we are spirit I thought our bodies just husk #vss365

I feel the #sands of time shift shif shi sh s they blow blo bl b until there's nothing left lef le l 0 011010 binary yes no but you know when nothings left there no language no thoughts just a deep well and you become totally absorbed in the moment just sitting watching #vss365

I had a wedding #ring for a long time but love goes cold sometimes we touched happiness I think It's Good Friday today and tonight I have a prayer to read tonight and some scripture the World is no better than it was then only the countries have changed the Romans were cruel vinegar! #vss365

I can't use a #pen ver well now I have a problem with my right hand with the tendons beginning to pull my hand in it's a stricture of sorts so I learnt to write with my left hand which I managed but it's slow just a thing you have to put up with it could be worse so that's it #vss365

oh I didn't do my poem yesterday so I'll do it today #man this is fun isn't it It certainly is so I'm behind time but catching up #vss365

who do we #exalt the winners or the losers in life they are inextricably linked I win you lose that's how we're programmed i chase the pigeon away from the bird seed you've had enough the blackbird seems suspicious you're a winner blackbird he doesn't feed no he chirps it's not right #vss365

so my #conduct was appalling this morning my iPhone had this new update 26.4 which took ages to install then it came up with an age verification window it wouldn't accept my usual Apple pay id I was fuming it came up with credit card so I tried my debit card noooo the air was blue #vss365

#sprite Fat: 0g Saturates: 0g Carbohydrates: 4.4g Sugars4.4g Protein: 0g Salt: 0.04g Carbonated Water Regulator (Sodium Citrates), Sweeteners (Acesulfame-K, Aspartame), Natural Lemon and Lime Flavourings. +Phenylalanine. It's all there I think I had a Sprite once but I prefer ... don't I #vss365

I was an only child and as such I thought the world #revolved around me my parents continually told me I was special but then I realised that I was no more special than any of the 8 billion who inhabit our planet or even the blackbird in our garden we are all special and all things #vss365

I have always been #fascinated by things that divert me from the main task in hand now I'm older I see my minds game as it jumps like a monkey to deceive that is where regret lives and tears sometimes #vss365

there was a #tempest here when we were on holiday the ships and boats couldn't go out you couldn't swim in sea it lasted a week it had the name of my late wife Therese I wondered if she had something to do with it unhappy with my new partner could be you never know help #vss365

I get #frustrated as I get older with a lot of things I went into a beautiful little church yesterday and prayed for us all like locusts we gobble up everything wanting more more more and I am no different but how do we change can we bam wham they shout our comic strip leaders but war... #vss365

I have never had an #endorsement on my driving license not because I'm a good driver but just because I'm lucky I suppose I see the day coming as I get older when I will no longer be able to drive It will be a big shock I remember having to speak to my father in his late 70's hard #vss365

I suppose I am a #waver for the triumphant who overcome their hindrances and see life as it really is loving creation I wish you happiness health peace and freedom from suffering but look us now with those hurting things we do we are all part of it one organism alien by its nature human #vss365

the great #divide literate illiterate I had an English teacher who loved to put red ink on my work my misspelling of illiterate was one of my best in a criticism of a poem the red ink spread with that greater fervour that I should think in a place forever school a body of and #vss365

I would say my disposition in the main is sunny not grey or #overcast that's me I do get anxious like today we had a trip booked after breakfast the clock was ticking and no one was near ready so I made a snide remark I needn't have bothered the minibus was twenty minutes late ouch! #vss365

I'm trained as a #mediator in bringing resolution to parties with different stances actually that's a lie I'm trained as a Community Worker which involves a lot of mediation our philosophy is we can do anything haha usually conflicting comes from people not listening to others #vss365

I #entreat my feet to walk with me my detached brain feels so alone day two of the holiday we've probably been drinking too much for us anyhow we're lightweights when it comes to alcohol my left shoulder still hurts it's been a bad strain our apartment is nice though with a lounge .. #vss365

we are #partaking of some coffee at the marina in Funchal I don't know any Portuguese so broken Spanish hopeless we were just caught in a shower but made it to the cafe everyone is on their phones speaking to friends business social media had a restless night in new bed #vss365

I have injured my right shoulder hoping to #surpass my personal dip record a few days ago now I have a constant ache in my left arm so I've eased off exercise for now I also found an acupressure point in my hand which helps in the webbing between the thumb and forefinger amazing #vss365

so we've just arrived in our sub-tropical holiday destination for ten days will it #surpass other holidays maybe long flight but no missiles coming our way thank goodness but there is a lingering feeling of guilt my heart opens for the suffering the burning while our world plays chess #vss365

they #assure you their party can be trusted you can have confidence in them of course it's not the truth not even close and so it goes on and on the wars never stop the bombs still drop and the innocent still die and cry out in pain the hungry pray for food the thirsty throats dry #vss365