Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
From the daily archives:
Lisa of Chasing Grace has written something that tells me why I should continue this crazy blogging occupation (not that I was thinking of stopping, mind you).
On the blogging landscape you will find mansions and hovels, fortresses and castles, shopping malls, business, galleries, theaters, humble homes, gardens, quiet places of meditation and amusement parks. There [...]
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We love “overcoming the odds” stories. There’s something inspiring about someone who uses his wonderful singing voice to escape from being bullied at school and working at Carphone Warehouse.
Paul Potts, a mobile phone salesman from South Wales, brought the audience for the ITV show Britain’s Got Talent to their feet by singing the Pavarotti favourite [...]
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Smell is surely the most evocative of our senses. Every now and then I catch the very minutest “glimpse” of a smell (can one catch a “glimpse” of what cannot be seen?) that instantly takes me back to my childhood. Often the memory is fugitive and inconclusive, a fragment briefly seen and as quickly lost.
I [...]
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