Walking into an Elephant

Somebody told me today that a man walked into an elephant.There was a moments silence, then …Why would anybody want to walk into an elephant Ma. Everybody knows that elephants are big animals and they will tell you that if you walk into an elephant then you will not win.Perhaps they had their eyes shut.Don’t be silly Ma, nobody walks about with their eyes shut.This is a little excerpt from a novel that I read some time ago, that I’ve translated into English, and it made me th

Have Stick – Stop Traffic

I have been observing human nature the last month. Having been back and forth to hospital with a leg injury almost every other day, I was eventually able to walk in a staggering fashion. Not helped by my leukemia, my steering was all over the place, I couldn’t walk in a straight line (sober) and I had to keep resting.Solution, buy a walking stick until I can walk on my own.How things changed for me as a pedestrian. Driver’s attitudes to me completely changed.Here in Wells, Somerset,

A Left-Handed House

Haaa! They thought they’d got me this time (so did I at one stage) but no. Bux is back on the trail. What a fortnight this has been. Two weeks of back and forth to the hospital, a 60 mile round trip each time, but I’m out the other side of it now. This little c is getting to be a nuisance, but I will teach it to behave. A little determination and plenty of walking is what is needed. And a good dose of WA interaction.But that is not what this blog is about – it’s about le

Make them feel included

Hello everybody. Just a quick one from me, especially aimed at new bloggers and video makers from recent observations.The choice of pronouns that you use is important. It can affect how your message comes across and can convey different styles and moods.When I went for my Chartered Engineer interviews I was told in very strong terms that I should use the words I and me in the interviews and never we or us. So I used expressions like - I did this, I decided, I made, it was me that created, it wa

Expanding your Niche

How often do we look for something for what seems like an age, only to realise that it was there in front of us all the time.What they call – Hidden in Plain Sight. How did I ever miss that?Sometimes we just don’t see what is right there, so close that we could reach out and touch it. Not just physical things like “where are my spectacles, oh here they are on my head” Or spending ten minutes searching for a pair of scissors that were in the cutlery draw all along, the on

Day Dreaming

Greetings boys and girls. I’m on top form today, nearly a nine out of ten. A ten would be bouncing off the walls and I’m waiting for those to be replastered from the last ten.What a day for a day dream - What a day for a day dreamin boyI think that was Lovin Spoonful from goodness knows when, the black and white TV days. I can remember when it took two people to pick up a television, now its on my phone.Anyway, I started the week with a page full of things to do, far too much for ju

Bux does AI

OK you Lords and Ladies of the AI world. The Bux is ready to dive into the magical pool of AI and take the world by storm – or perhaps a very light shower.A couple of you have suggested that I should get involved and even made recommendations, but in typical Bux style, I’ve put the pieces of paper somewhere … somewhere that I cannot find them.My task is that I must put together a couple of papers on geometry and calculus, with drawings and sketches, and I’m interested t

Can you help Anglo American Understanding?

Help please, I’m stuck on pronunciation and really need to make progress on this.I’ve been watching a video on sand. Please don’t ask why, I thought it was normal, doesn’t everybody like sand?Anyway, one of the speakers talked of some volcanic islands and he pronounced them the Harwen Islands. I’ve replayed it several times and it still comes out as Harwen.I’ve checked google maps and wikipedia and no luck. I’m in a mess now.This chap had what I would c

Saving a Penny might cost a Dollar

I was reminded this morning of what lengths some folk will go to to save a few pence, only to find that the tables turn on them and their folly costs more than they might have saved.I took out one of my test meters and this particular meter must be calibrated every 12 months or less. It is used to certify electrical installations and without a calibration certificate for it, then I ain’t working and earning money. My meter has a large red label attached to the strap, making it easier to i

Holiday Time

Whoopey doopy doo! Here in the UK we have “another” public holiday this weekend.Monday is actually called the August Bank holiday, because, trafditionally, the banks don’t open on this day.All the banks close for the day, and in recent times, many of them have failed to re-open again. Lots of small towns now have no banking facilities at all – is this a push for total on-line banking and a drive for banking utopia, a totally cashless society, where the banks control ever