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Scaling the Value of Design Thinking Across an Organization
When BJC HealthCare consulted Mad*Pow they sought an expert in design thinking methodologies that could not only train BJC leaders on the process and principles of design thinking, but also help pinpoint effective ways to implement new training, and build momentum and enthusiasm around new ideas.
- Design-driven companies have outperformed the S&P Index by 219% over 10 years
- Companies that foster design thinking enjoy 1.5 times greater market share. (source: Adobe)
- 10% of the fortune 500 have stated design as their No. 1 priority (source: CMO.com)
- 82% of companies see a strong connection between creativity and business results (source: Creativity at Work)
the power of human-centered design
BJC HealthCare is one of the largest nonprofit health care organizations in the United States and is one of Missouri's largest employers. BJC saw the power of human-centered design in solving problems when its Center for Clinical Excellence set out to learn about innovation practices from Silicon Valley giants like Google, Facebook, and PayPal.
However, upon applying their new insights, they began to see success, but quickly realized that to be effective in an organization as large and complex as the BJC network, they would need to formalize new practices and grow the organization's understanding of the new techniques and approaches the team was pursuing. They needed a partner to help them articulate goals, and build allies and "culture ninjas" that could be trained in design thinking and counted on to help spread interest and understanding throughout the organization.
When BJC HealthCare consulted Mad*Pow they sought an expert in design thinking methodologies that could not only train BJC leaders on the process and principles of design thinking, but also help pinpoint effective ways to implement new training, and build momentum and enthusiasm around new ideas. This BJC Center for Clinical Excellence team wanted to embrace innovation with human-centered design as its foundation.
Through a series of Mad*Pow created and led design training workshop, BJC team leaders were exposed to the design thinking process and the practicalities of applying it to real world projects with consideration for collaboration and strategy.
Spread over four days, the workshop first introduced participants to the foundational ideas behind design thinking and then proceeded into sequential "deep dives" into the stages of the design process. Groups participated in activities that pushed them to explore and generate solutions for a problem space utilizing the techniques and tools they were learning.
Day One focused on the first stage of design thinking: Understanding & Research. Participants were introduced to a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods including ethnography, interviews, collaging, and surveys, as well as how to select the most effective methods for a project. Hands-on activities provided participants opportunities to gain experience in collecting information that helps direct design decisions.
Day Two focused on the synthesis of research data for new insights and problem framing. In order to have research findings that are useful to generating ideas for a solution, attendees learned how to synthesize research output in an actionable way. This session also presented the best practices to create and implement the tools designers use to help tell an informed story about users and their existing experiences and challenges: personas, empathy maps, and current-state experience maps.
Building on the content of days One and Two, Day Three looked to the future, pushing teams to establish a vision for future experiences within the problem space. If the challenges and opportunities identified through research and synthesis were addressed, what would patients' experiences be like? Through narrative tools such as future-state experience maps and scenarios, in combination with setting business/patient goals and design principles, teams worked to describe ideal experiences. By setting up this vision, the teams learned how to provide themselves with foundational structures that would allow them to generate and focus on potential solutions.
Day Three additionally explored the importance of collaboration, key tools, and techniques for making collaboration as effective as possible. While many organizations recognize the need for collaboration, in order to be effective, and not devolve into posturing, territorialism, or other detrimental behaviors, organizations need to have the ability to productively share, discuss, and evaluate ideas. This portion of the workshop focused on examining the ways in which people work together and how to use important skills such as visual communication and critique to foster effective collaboration.
The final day of the workshop pushed participants to generate a wide variety of ideas based on the foundation they had built over the first three days and then prototype and test their solutions. Participants learned best practices that allow them to generate large numbers of ideas and help avoid becoming too focused or wedded to a single idea too soon. Through prototyping, teams uncovered insights that not only lead to iteration on their ideas but growth in their understanding of the problem space itself.
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Proposed Changes to Florida Medicaid's Long-Term Care Program
JACKSONVILLE, Florida — The State of Florida's plan to revamp its Medicaid program in 2012 includes significant changes that will impact those Floridians who receive long-term care. The state's proposed new Long-Term Care Managed Care program, which will cover adults 65 and older and younger adults with disabilities, will affect as many as 84,000 current Florida Medicaid beneficiaries as well as another 27,000 eligible individuals who are on various waiting lists for services.
But even as the state waits for federal approval of the plan, questions abound about how the plan will be implemented, how beneficiaries will be impacted, and whether the new program can accomplish its ambitious goals.
These questions are explored in a new briefing paper — Proposed Medicaid Long-Term Care Changes Raise Host of Questions About Impact — from researchers at Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute. The educational briefing is one of a series commissioned by the Jessie Ball duPont Fund and the Winter Park Health Foundation. Two earlier briefs were released in December 2011.
"Moving to managed long-term care is a complex and difficult undertaking, particularly given the broad program changes proposed and the short time frame," the researchers write.
In the brief, the authors cite questions arising about:
"In order to better understand what the implications of the changes will be for service delivery and program costs, more detail is needed, particularly about who will have access to community-based services, how transitions and service coordination will be achieved, and how the adequacy and quality of services will be assured," the authors write.
Copies of the brief may be found at www.dupontfund.org, www.wphf.org and at hpi.georgetown.edu/floridamedicaid.

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Anulom Vilom Pranayama (अनुलोम प्राणायाम) is one of several Pranayama or breathing exercise used in the practice of Hatha yoga. At first, you have to understand the meaning of Anuloma and Viloma.In this, the first word Anu roughly translates as with and word Loma means hair implying "with the grain" or "natural". And the meaning of Viloma is "against the grain." Anuloma is opposite to Viloma. It is very helpful in respiratory-related diseases like Asthma. Anulom Vilom Pranayama is the best way of balancing the Tri dosas in our body. Our body gets ill when Tri dosas are not in balancing position. Vaat, Pitta, Kaffa knows as Tri dosas, Tri means "three" and the meaning of dosas is impurities. All these are present in the body of every people. If one of them is an imbalance that we suffer from different diseases. All three are the cause of all diseases. So it's important to balance these tri dosas. If you really want to balance these Tri dosas than do Anulom Vilom pranayama regularly. It is the simplest and best way for this.
Steps of Anulom Vilom Pranayama
- Anulom Vilom Pranayama is very easy to do, first of all, close your eyes and sit in Padmasana and rest your hands on your knees.
- Close the right nostril with the right thumb. Inhale slowly through the left nostril, inhale the oxygen as much as you can, this will fill your lungs with air.
- Remove your thumb from your right nostril, as you remove your thumb from right nostril just exhale.
- When you exhale use your middle finger to close your left nostril then inhale with our right nostril and remove thumb from the right nostril then exhale. Repeat this process for 5 minutes.
- Be focused and concentrate on your breathing.
Benefits of Anulom Vilom Pranayama
- Helps to cure mental problems like Depression, Anxiety, stress, Tension etc.
- Most beneficial for breathing related problems like (Bronchitis, Asthma) etc.
- Improve the working of lungs.
- Best breathing technique for boosting your memory (Makes your brain sharper).
- Improves your immune system, so it cures general issues like a cough & cold.
- Without any doubt, Anulom Vilom is the most suitable Pranayama for all.
- Alternate nostril breathing is an ideal breathing technique for maintaining your heart healthy.
Anulom Vilom Pranayama is the ideal Pranayama for a healthy heart. Anulom Vilom Pranayama is also known as Nadi Shodhana pranayama (alternate nostril breathing). Nadi Shodhana is the next level of Anulom Vilom. In Anulom Vilom Pranayama we inhale and exhale, but in Nadi Shodhana pranayama we hold (kumbhaka or retention) our breath for a second or minute than exhale.
Steps of Nadi Shodhana Pranayama (next level of Anulom Vilom Pranayama)
- Sit in the Padmasana (lotus pose) close your eyes. Your spine should be erect.
- Then inhale through your left nostril, while inhaling close your right nostril with your right thumb.
- When you feel your lungs are full of air then close left nostril by the ring and middle finger, and your right nostril should also close.
- Hold the breath for a minute or as much as you can, then exhale through the right nostril. After that inhale through the right nostril and close the left nostril by your left thumb, as you inhale completely just close your right nostril with thumb and left nostril by the ring and middle finger.
- Hold your breath (retention) for a minute than exhale by your left nostril.
- Once a cycle is complete, repeat the cycle for 3 or five minutes.
Benefits of Nadi Shodhana Pranayama
- The benefits of Nadi Shodhana Pranayama is Same as the benefits of Anulom Vilom Pranayama.
- Don't get confused in Anulom Vilom and Nadi Shodhana Pranayama.
- Both are same but in Nadi Shodhana we hold our breath that's it.
- Another name of Anulom Vilom Pranayama is Nadi Shodhana. First of all, you have to practice Anulom Vilom Pranayama when you are perfect then you'll go for next level of Anulom Vilom Pranayama (Nadi Shodhana).
- Nadi Shodhana Pranayama is best for balancing the level of Tri – Dosas in our body.
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Important Points: –
- Try to Perform Pranayama in the morning with empty stomach. If you haven't enough time in the morning then do it in the evening but keep several hours gap in between your meals and Pranayama.
- Throughout the practice, assume that you all your impurities is come out with exhale. With every inhalation wonder that your mind is getting some positivity and your body is more energetic than before.
- When you are trying to do Nadi Shodhana note that inhalation, retention, and exhalation are all in equal duration which is called Sama vrtti and this is for beginners.
- People who are more advanced may try Visama vrtti or uneven breath, by using the ratio such as 1:4:2. (1 beat inhale, 4 beat retention, and a 2 beat exhale.
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Paul contacted me to let me know of a nursing brochure he had found. He has kindly taken scans and these are reproduced here.
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I have a cd rom copied from this brochure kindly reproduced by Ernie Townsend who has ongoing work re Cane Hill.
Viewing this on line brings back so many memories of my training at CHH, well over 40 odd years ago!
The faces and names of those nurses some long term friends and some no longer with us still vivid..


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After a couple of days rest following the tournament in Holland, I arrived in Lisbon for the next event on the calender. We were all looking forward to some warm summer weather and to ditch the umbrellas and wet weather gear. The course was about an hours drive from the airport and we were to play the event at Golden Eagle golf course. Like all other weeks, I was feeling positive about the week to come and was looking forward to a good tournament. (we have to say that you know. It's part of our job requirements! :) ).
I had been concerned after recent tournaments that I had lost some distance with my irons as I was hitting them almost a whole club shorter than I remembered from last year. While talking with the tours' club fitter in Portugal about options for new irons and shafts, he checked the loft on my irons to find that they were all about 2-3 degrees weak (ie. more loft on them)!! That equates to almost a whole iron in loft. No wonder I was hitting them all short!! He corrected all of the lofts and there was a noticable difference on the range. Now to take it out on the course...
The course was a beautiful layout with quite a few water holes, which included one par 3 with an 'island green'. Always gotta love those holes. My ball striking had improved a little for the week, but in the end I still couldn't quite manage to keep a good score together. Actually, one of my problems was that I started hitting the ball too far on approach shots to the greens! After spending some months adjusting to hitting the ball shorter, I was now back to normal distance with the correct loft on my irons. A little annoying but you'd have to say that hitting the ball too far is a good problem to have.
On the second day I had to shoot at least -4 to make the cut, so that was my goal. With renewed confidence after getting distance back on my irons, I was determined I could do it. Well, the round was going kind of slowly until I got to the 12th hole ...the par 3 I mentioned before with the island green. They had a couple of cameras filming behind the green and it would have been a perfect time to make a hole-in-one. I hit my 7 iron perfectly and it was firing straight at the flag. I yelled at it to go in and .....it landed oh so close!! (and you thought this was going to be my hole-in-one didn't you! ;)). When I got to the green, the ball had actually pitched 2 inches from the hole, pin high! ...damn! oh well, I holed the 2 ft putt for birdie.
The round continued a little up and down but I was still hanging in there. After making a rather soft par on a short par 5, I walked to the 16th tee and realised .."even if I make three eagles from here, I still won't make the cut". Well, it would be a nice way to finish either way. The 16th was a par three with a slightly elevated green. There was about 1 to 1 1/2 clubs of head wind with a distance of about 137m to the pin. I chose a 5 iron and picked my line about 2m left of the flag... and hit it perfectly. Laughingly I yelled at it to .."go in this time" (after just missing on the 12th). It landed and bounced a couple of times. Then it started rolling and curving in towards the flag ...and then it disappeared!! IT WENT IN!! Woohooo! haha
Well, there were no big prizes on this particular hole but having the satisfaction of a hole-in-one is something that will always be with you. I finished with par-par on the last two holes and was set to have the Sunday off. I finished the tournament on a high though and with some renewed confidence in my game. Now I have to go and refine it again.
As we were having the week off the following week, a few of us offered to play in a charity pro-am down on the Algarve in Portugal. I drove down with one of the other girls on Sunday where we were able to meet with the various people organising the event. The charity is an organisation that provides funding and support for underprivileged kids and their families on the Algarve: ACCA. It's a day that I have played in before and it's always nice to be able to contribute to a worthy cause. We played the pro-am at a Jack Niclaus designed course called Monte Rei. A beautiful layout and a great golf course. We had a good day in the pro-am and it was nice to see some funds raised dispite the current economic climate that the world is going through.
During our week off, a few of us stayed at Barringtons Golf and Spa Hotel on the Algarve and had a nice week to relax and practice. We were invited by some of the members at Quinta do Lago to join them for a couple of games during the week and we also managed a game at San Lorenzo. All in all we had a great week and it seems we managed to make a number of new friends while we were there. A big thank you too everyone at Quinta do Lago and Vale de Lobo for a great week.
Our next event is at Portmarnock in Ireland which is where I am now. It's a beautiful links course and it looks like we may even end up being lucky with the weather this week. Fingers crossed. Follow the results and live scoring on the LET website.


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112 Lessons Learned in Implementing an LMS
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Tuesday, March 26
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Choosing your organization's first learning management system is a daunting task. What features should you be looking for? What questions should you be asking? How much is too much to spend? And what happens after you make the decision? In many ways, implementing the LMS you've chosen can be even more daunting than making the initial selection.
This interactive session will explore some of the questions you should be asking and the features you should be looking for in an off-the-shelf LMS solution. Participants and facilitators alike will discuss some of the lessons learned in the selection process. From there you'll discover what happens next during the implementation process: What stakeholders or departments need to be involved? What does the process look like? Where are the common pitfalls, and how can you avoid them?
In this session, you will learn:
- Questions to ask your potential LMS provider
- About common features to look for in your potential LMS provider
- About the implementation process, including other stakeholder involvement and timeline
- About common implementation issues and how to avoid them
Managers and senior leaders (directors, VP, CLO, executive, etc.)
Technology discussed in this session:
Off-the-shelf LMS solutions
Vicky Hale
Director of eLearning
GAAP Dynamics
Vicky Hale is a director of eLearning at GAAP Dynamics. With a degree in accounting (and a minor in visual arts) from the University of Richmond, her path to the learning community has been nontraditional. Vicky began her career as an auditor at PwC and still holds an active CPA license. A desire for teaching and the need for a more creative outlet led her to GAAP Dynamics, where she spearheaded the company's eLearning initiative. She is passionate about instructing, accounting, eLearning, and marketing—and looking for ways to combine them all!
LaTarshia Wooten
Digital Marketing and Learning Specialist
GAAP Dynamics
LaTarshia Wooten is a senior digital marketing and learning specialist at GAAP Dynamics. With a background in communication and education media, not only is she passionate about helping others learn, but she also understands the importance of reaching them on different platforms. Add in her passion for coming up with creative and effective marketing campaigns, from social media to inbound marketing, and you have a match made in heaven!


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Originally released on Atco in 1969, this reissue shows Jerry Jeff Walker in his pre-Austin era when his sound had more in common with the progressive rock and folk of the time than country.
The opening "Help Me Now," as well as "Janet Says" and "About Her Eyes,"recall the mellow side of the Velvet Underground, both lyrically and in Walker'svocal similarity to Lou Reed. "Blues in the Night" and "Dead Men Got No Dreams" display a folk rock influence, while closing track "Born to Dance and Sing" feels like an Arlo Guthrie ditty. A stellar cast of studio musicians accompany Walker, including Weldon Myrik (steel), Wayne Moss (guitar), Norbert Putnam (bass), David Briggs and HargisRobbins (piano) and Charlie McCoy (organ). The real gem is an early version of Walker's signature tune "Mr. Bojangles," which had been recorded in 1967 on New York radio station WBA. The liner notes describe the cut as the "famous drunken recording made early in the morning," and it features Walker and David Bromberg on acoustic guitars and includes Bob Fass of WBA at the end of the song remarking, "That was a beautiful song - you wrote that?"
In the 30 years since the release of this music, Walker has grown to legendary status in the alternative country community. This reissue shows us where the wonderful journey began.


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LOS ANGELES - Speaking at the second Global Governor's Summit last week, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger told delegates that, while nations continue to negotiate a global agreement on climate change, state and regional governments are taking action and making real progress in tackling climate change.
The Summit brought together subnational government leaders from across the world to focus on their role in addressing climate change. Several leaders from The Climate Group's States and Regions network - including Quebec, Wales, Manitoba, Victoria, and (of course) California - spoke about the leadership role subnational governments have played, in everything from green building standards to carbon taxes to forest protection and partnerships with developing countries.
Pointing to California's pioneering clean car standards (which was adopted by other states and provinces, and, finally in a modified form by the federal government), Governor Schwarzenegger said that subnational governments are developing the policies that nations can use to implement a global deal.
The Governor pointed out that, in the same way, the US government does not need to wait for other nations to act on climate change. "We should lead the green movement and then other countries will follow," he said.
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and IPCC Chairman Dr R K Pachauri joined the Governor to discuss the upcoming negotiations at Copenhagen this December in a "fireside chat" focused on Blair's work with The Climate Group on Breaking the Climate Deadlock.
Mr Blair said he believed there is clear support for global action - negotiations at Copenhagen must get down to the practical solutions. Based on his political experience, he said, "If there is a way, there is a will."
The Climate Group's States and Regions network, together with California, Quebec, Catalonia and others, have been lobbying to gain official UNFCCC recognition of the role of States and Regions in implementing a global deal.
This effort was affirmed in a video message from UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer who noted that subnational governments will deliver up to between 50-80% of emissions reduction targets. He said that the UN believed it is important that the final text in Copenhagen reference the role that subnational governments will play in its delivery, and encouraged them to get national delegations to support this effort.
"The message of the importance of sub-national governments in actually implementing a Global Deal, and in leading on practical actions to green the economy, was made loud and clear in California- a message that will be carried to Copenhagen" said The Climate Group's State and Regions Director Jane Gray at the summit.
"The Climate Group was pleased to assist in this important Summit as a lead-in to the important gathering of subnational, municipal and business leaders that will take place on December 15th at our Climate Leaders Summit in Copenhagen."
Governor Schwarzenegger closed the Summit by saying it wasn't only governments that carried the responsibility to act. The best way to ensure long term success in tackling climate change, he said, was to make it "hip": "We need to make it mainstream so that it is unusual if you're not involved."


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The 2016 Mississippi Blueberry Educational Workshop will be held in Hattiesburg on January 14, 2016 from 1-5pm. Several topics will be covered including mechanized harvest, Farm-to-School, Social Media marketing, blueberry cultivars, and disease control basics. Everyone with an interest in blueberries is invited to attend. See the information below for details on the program.


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Every year when Hanukkah comes around, I pick a night to make latkes and a brisket. And every year, I swear I will not only make latkes for Hanukkah.
Similarly, a lot of people go crazy about selecting, preparing and serving a turkey for Thanksgiving and never think about it again the rest of the year.
This year, with Thanksgiving falling on the first day of the Feast of Lights, I was concerned about when I might make my latkes. Even with a scaled back crowd attending dinner this year, I knew realistically we wouldn't be done with the leftovers until at least half-way through Hanukkah.
The first night after Thanksgiving, we finished up the leftover ravioli and sauce and meatballs and sausage. On Saturday night, we set our sights on some turkey, the end of the dressing, green beans, cranberry sauce and mashed potatoes.
Why not repurpose those leftover mashed potatoes into latkes. I could still spoon some of the gravy over them. Or top them with cranberry sauce. Of course a dollop of sour cream is always nice.
What a great idea! And so easy to do. They turned out great! Crisp exterior with a fluffy interior.
The convergence of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah that occurred this year won't happen again for 70,000 years.
Don't wait that long to try this recipe.
Mashed Potato Latkes
- Leftover mashed potatoes (approximately 2 cups) at room temperature
- 1 large egg
- ½ to 1 cup of all-purpose flour
- Vegetable oil
In a large bowl, sprinkle about ¼ cup of the flour over the potatoes. Add the egg and work into the flour and potatoes. Add just enough additional flour to form a cohesive dough that is just stiff enough to be workable. Don't overdo it.
Pour oil into a 10 or 12 inch skillet (cast iron is perfect for this) to a depth of about ½ an inch. Heat the oil over a medium flame until it sizzles when a small piece of the dough is dropped into it. (About 7 minutes).
Grease a ¼ cup measuring cup with Pam or a similar spray oil. Fill with the dough mixture and drop into the hot oil. Flatten the dough slightly with a spoon. Do this three more times. Do not overcrowd the pan. Cook until browned, four to five minutes, flip and cook for another four or five minutes.
Remove the latkes from the skillet and set on paper towel lined platter to drain. Cover to keep them warm. You may want to lightly salt and pepper them to taste. Repeat until you have used up the dough. Serve warm with sour cream and applesauce (or the Thanksgiving leftovers).
Makes 8 – 10 potato pancakes.
Tags: Hanukkah, latkes, leftovers, potato pancakes, Thanksgiving


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Chapter 1.
Cornwall, June 2010.
I am in a very beautiful place.
If only I could say the same of myself.
The views from the sash windows of the cottage are quite breathtaking in the crystalline evening sunlight that is reflected in perfect technicolor by the gently-bobbing flotilla of boats of various colours, shapes, ages and sizes which dot the bay, then are fragmented in natural kaleidoscopes in the sunbeams dancing on the waves. Only a couple of ominous-looking, battleship-grey (of course) naval ships on the horizon lend a touch of monochrome menace to this otherwise idyllic panorama.
Right now, the sea is more like a lake; there's very little wind. Children with their nets and buckets shriek with delight as they find a tiny fish or crab in the numerous rock pools; dogs bark joyfully as they run in and out of the sea retrieving sticks, or unsuccessfully trying to locate casually tossed pebbles.
Neighbours congregate by the sea wall outside the house with a glass or three of wine (a phrase that won't stop echoing around my head today), catching the last rays of the sun before it sets behind these picture-postcard-perfect twin villages with their higgledy-piggledy ice-cream-coloured, flint, brick and natural-stone cottages clustered around narrow lanes and little squares. It doesn't really feel like England at all – much more Mediterranean – with shrubs and flowers bursting out of every nook, cranny and pot. There are some dull-looking, suburban-looking houses and bungalows on the fringes, along with the odd 'executive-style' monstrosity from the 80s, and the homes that were created in the old fort up on the hill overlooking the villages look a bit 80s too, but it's a private enclave, so I've never seen inside. The views from the flats across to the south-east coast of Devon must be quite spectacular though.
The majority of the itinerant population, or those who have second homes here, are warm and friendly, apart from a very rare, token 'grump' or the occasional gossipy harridan, or whatever the male equivalent is: a harriman ? I suppose there will always be something, or someone, slightly bitter and twisted in any small community – it's only human. Apart from that, these villages could be rightly considered to be heaven-on-sea. They segue-in to each other with no apparent join or distinction (apart from a plaque marking the old, official border between Devon and Cornwall) and the sheltered bay they straddle was gifted 'a windbreak' by nature; in the form of a two-mile-long, densely and delicately wooded headland called Smuggler's Spur which defends the bay's southern edge to keep us all safe. Pirates! A Tsunami! The Spanish Armada. Dutch Courage! A glass or three of wine (echo…echo).
My pay-as-you go mobile broadband dongle has, having accepted my credit card payment online (funny that), finally decided that it will, after all, download the ninety-seven emails I've yet to read; most of them, no doubt, requesting my attendance at some PeoplePages (the outrageously successful social networking site, generally known as 'PP') friend's shindig in Whoreditch, Dollstone… or perhaps Noho.
The 'helpline' oik from my pay-as-you-go 'provider' (now there's an oxymoron) told me on the landline earlier today that he was surprised that I got any reception at all, as the nearest mast was over ten miles away from the cottage, behind the hills. His wasn't, at least, an unintelligible Indian accent, for a change. 'That didn't stop the ineffectual, corporate robber-barons of O!U from taking my money, did it?' I dead-panned, quietly replacing the receiver to stop myself becoming abusive, imagining that: this call may be recorded for training and quality purposes.
I was, with some justification, fucking furious. NOW they tell me, after they'd sent me on a wild goose chase – on the day before I came (any excuse to hint at one of my favourite Abba songs) down here – running around London's West End with their false information about where I could get the new sim card that I needed to update my mobile broadband pay-as-you-go. They LIED. Their shops were all SHUT! So I had to stop off in Plymouth after a four-hour train journey from London to pick up a new (albeit free, and I should think SO) one from their crass little corporate, 'one-stop-shop' staffed by gormless geeks, which was located in a gruesome, sixties shopping mall in the city centre.
We are talking planned obsolescence here, as my dongle is only two years old. Bloody corporate mafias. At least I got it and it vaguely works, but generally only after midnight and – with a fair wind (to stay with the sea-fairin' vernacular). Slowly. Yo ho ho and bottle of red wine (I wish)!
How ironic that fate conspires to keep me up late, as is my wont, even on a working AND detoxing holiday by the sea. It seems I can't escape being defined by late nights – and the smug, social snootiness that is sometimes directed at me through pursed lips as a result, like: have you adjusted to normal times yet, Thom? Judgemental jealousy, probably. Apart from the fact that various ailments exhaust my poor body and mean that I often require over ten hours sleep a night, I happen to be happiest working creatively in the early hours – and any other hours, apart from mornings – especially if I'm alone (not that that was what I had in mind this time) in, say, a magical place where the full moon is shining its shimmering silver silence across a beautiful bay of tranquility. Sigh… like last night.
'The truth came back to find me, a vision that could blind me
once again, oh my friend, hello lonely, once again.'
I'm luxuriating in high-end solitude, rather than fighting it as if it were somehow unfair, or made me feel deeply lonely. Perhaps it's no coincidence that 'Hello Lonely' is the first song on 'Who Is Thom Topham?', the new album I'm working on. I actually wrote and recorded this track in 1985. But… a glass or three of wine, red, red wine. That would be fine. Deep breath. Will mere fruit juice help me get rid on the whining, nasal tones of UB40 that are threatening to invade my head though? 'Red red wine… goes to my head…'. Trivia fact: Neil Diamond wrote that song. Vegas goes to Birmingham and wins another million-dollar jackpot. Bring on the skin-tight, rhinestone-encrusted jump-suits. Or maybe he'd stopped wearing them by then? Truly gruesome. One can only hope. He has, however, written some great songs, when he wasn't being too characteristically mawkish.
You see, this week I've decided I'm not going to drink alcohol. It will be the first time for over five years. That was when I managed three whole months of total abstinence having been diagnosed with pancreatitis (only after my suggestion that perhaps a CT scan would be a good idea after eight or nine years of a debilitating and painful mystery illness). Then, the Creon – twelve-a-day for the rest of my life- immediately killed most of the constant, dull pain in the lower back, and eased the chronic runs and heartburn that I'd suffered for all those years. When you have varying degrees of discomfort (this was generally at its worst when I woke up, and it made me want to go straight back to sleep, but I couldn't, because it hurt too much – a classic Catch 22), after a while your body, or nerve-ends, become almost inured to it, because you have no choice in the matter. Then, after aeons of suffering, when it suddenly floats away in a dark cloud of malice, you blink, shake your head and think – wow, that was really bad pain – has it actually gone?
It had, for five years.
Now I'm not so sure.
Having proved that I wasn't an alcoholic after all, I decided that the drugs did work – obviously, I'm referring to the medication – and went back to a glass or three of wine (echo…echo) with dinner; maybe a beer or two after. And it was fine on that level for a few glory years, seemingly helping to ease my depressive state, about which, to be honest, to paraphrase Mark Twain, I was 'swimming in a river in Egypt', at least on papyrus, sorry, paper. De Nile? Geddit? I thought I'd invented that phrase – but doing some research recently, it popped-up as one of many brilliant Twainisms.
Late last year, however, I started to get seriously dehydrated whilst asleep, then the soaking night sweats started, followed a couple of months later by a new, random, stabbing pain at various points around my back – it started, visually-speaking, at Two O'clock (between my scapula and my upper spine); yesterday it was at Five, today it's at Seven – waking me up almost every hour. It 's been an all-sweating, all-water-drinking, cold-sweat nightmare – especially after I put on a towelling dressing gown back home in London and tried to get back to sleep on top of the duvet (which was soaked with sweat underneath), under the comforting faux-zebra fur bedspread. Then, after a while, the back pain wakes me up again and/or because my mouth is dry. I try to turn to get some water from the bed-side table, but gag with pain because turning is virtually impossible. I grimace and grope for one of two, giant, black corduroy cushions on the floor and clumsily prop one under my back and force myself to sit-up in bed, using my hands. Having managed to drink some water, I try to get back to sleep, this time on my back, propped-up high on the cushion. Ziggy Zee the cat, my gorgeous, enormous ginger tom, who always sleeps on my bed, miaows hopefully, thinking it's breakfast time. I give him a reassuring stroke and try and snuggle-up to sleep. I only know if I've succeeded in grabbing some shut-eye if I remember a fleeting dream (usually totally scary and off-the-wall) whilst looking at the clock. Why is it always exactly an hour later? And so it goes on, night after night. Even, so far, here in Cornwall, although it does appear to be easing a little, night by night. This is not fun.
I've recently written and recorded a song called 'How Do You Measure Pain?', with particular reference to the medical professionals who have to both believe that you're suffering and trust that it's true. Not being a drama-queen (or any kind of queen at all, except maybe an irony-queen), I tend to be stoic and crack dark jokes, which probably just makes them think that I'm OK – when I'm not. Uh oh, I just blew it for myself there eh? I think to myself. I was only trying to help the professionals in their no-doubt constant struggle against self-serving morons, masochists, junkies and alcoholics – who just love to suffer.
'That's why I say 'I hurt so bad, I cannot even think,
my head has turned to hades and I really need a drink'.
How do you measure pain? Do you just believe what someone tells you?
Why does it still remain? Like someone obsessed, who can just smell you?'
I thought it was another mystery illness – after all, the drugs did work, didn't they? Maybe it is, but all manner of tests – even one for TB and another CT Scan – revealed nothing new. Surely, it has to be the alcohol, if the pancreatitis has somehow worsened – although, that would have shown-up in the scan? Maybe I've invented my own, unique form of cancer. Soon, hopefully, all will be revealed.
Yesterday was also the sixth anniversary – to the day – of my quitting smoking, which I'd done on the day that an Xray had shown that I had emphysema. I just stopped dead, as it were, with the aid of nicotine patches and gum, gradually reducing over a three-month period. It worked. No nicotine has passed my lips since, I'm proud to say. Very character-building, albeit a bit late in life. One thing that helped me enormously was some sage advice from the fabulous Christabel Galway, one of my OLDEST friends (we've always made exaggeratedly silly statements about each other with great glee), of the wealthy, famous and somewhat notorious Irish Whisky dynasty. Although, it should be noted, she's from the South African branch of the family and not in the slightest bit rich, or interested in a horsey/shooting/huntin' n' fishin' lifestyle in some draughty, old country pile in Ireland or Gloucestershire. Just before successfully dumping the cancer sticks herself, she'd advised me: 'Always remember darling – the craving only lasts three minutes!' That really helped get me through. I'm holding-off on introducing you to her properly, for now. Why? Because she'll be all over my recounting of my many notebooks and diaries with her ENORMOUS… personality. She will, however, be dropping into this book to make her prodigious presence, prescience, perspicacity, purity and just plain LOVE of people felt, before I happen to come across her, so to speak, in my diaries. I haven't even randomly selected and opened the first one yet!
I'll get around to that later.
You could say that my hard-partying (mostly in a professional capacity, I hasten to add) in the 80s and 90s had come back to bite me on the bum; but I could think of worse environments than here in Cornwall in which to ditch my drink habit and reluctantly don my virtual monk's habit – minus the slightest vestment of religion – my 'oath of silence' easily broken by chatting on the phone, texting, emailing and chat-rooming (albeit at a frustrating snail's pace). Then talking to neighbours and people in the village, like Maxwell and Lucinda Baxter, who run the funky little cafe-cum-deli a couple of hundred yards down The Cleave, the little lane that runs above the sea wall like a rustic promenade. They're my generation – and cool baby-boomers, just like me (although they live in Cornwall). He makes colourful, almost cubist, but sixties-inspired collages and she creates naive-pop-art paintings. They have three handsome sons in their late teens and early twenties who have an indie-style band called – surprise! – The Baxters. They're huge fans of a The Eagle Kings, a band I recently rejoined after a thirty two-year hiatus. I've jammed with the Baxter boys a few times on my last few visits, playing their (pretty annoyingly basic) keyboard, and once, even one of my own smaller ones – A Roland Juno-D – in the scout hut, in their house and in the bar which serves the campsite in the extensive grounds of the evocative, half-derelict mansion on top of the hill (some of which is used as artists' studios), with its enviable, ever-changing sea-views. with a little more work and application The Baxters could 'have it going on'. They might even follow my not-entirely-serious advice to call their first album 'Soup'!
Their dad had casually pointed out, the last time that I was here, that I was actually mentioned in, and in the index of, 70s and 80s fashion icon Ossie Clark's Diaries. I have some vague memory of meeting said legendary fashion designer in the mid-80s, or later, in the kitchen of a very cluttered and boho flat in Maida Vale. So I bought the book on Amazon, and found a misspelt reference to me (Tom Toppam) in the index, and decided to do the honourable thing and read the book until I came upon 'my entry' naturally. I've bought it with me and am about halfway through – in 1985. So 'my bit' hasn't happened yet. I'm sure it's very minor and trivial. In another sense, it's a mirror for my own diaries and notebooks. Evidently, we had quite a few mutual friends and acquaintances, but, obviously, had only met the once. Soon I will find out – it's the perfect bedtime reading to offset against my own autobiographical efforts. From what I've read so far, he was obviously even more badly behaved than me and, mentally, a complete mess. Plus, his writing abilities were average, at best, and he seemed to have an in-built resentment about just about everyone or anything who was more successful than him – particularly David Hockney. Now, in a sense, I can relate to that, having not ever been in a position to own even a modest flat (but why would I resent anyone who was more successful than me – unless they were completely talentless. Hmm, come to think of it. No… let's not go there). Well, maybe in the 80s, but I blew it by enjoying myself and spending all the money I was earning on eating-out and taking taxis everywhere. And I thoroughly enjoyed myself.
I really feel that being bitter and twisted can only lead to, well, being even more bitter and twisted. Is this the curse of the queen? Hah! I should be OK then, as I've never subscribed to the so-called gay, cultural reference that 'we're all queens dear!'. Fuck right off (and I'm not uptight about it, I just resent the apparent, absolute inference that it's a perceived, er, wisdom)!
I'm just a man who happens to be gay. Boom boom. Hello – is there anyone home? Is there anyone homo? It means MAN, and as far as I'm concerned (sorry girls). I'm not interested in making love with women – I gave that up when I was twenty-one when I realised I was homosexual, queer, a poof, a bummer – before the term 'gay' was even, um, invented. This is definitely despite all the ancient Greek and Roman closet-cases evidently fucking (or being fucked by?) 'pretty boys' rather than having an obviously more natural one-to-one with an equally masculine man (unless you were a eunuch or a screaming queen, of course). No wonder Nero fiddled while Rome burned, or Alexander The Great – note that he was acknowledged as a great warrior – fucked some queen/man/eunuch/bi-curious (delete where applicable) guy before invading the rest of the known universe. Maybe he loved to get fucked himself. This is not something you often hear or read about in the so-called 'classics'. Don't even get me started on pervy, old tweedy, Oxbridge Dons. *Shudder*. I have read The Symposium by Socrates and, to be honest, it reminded me of that truly awful and excrutiating faggy film 'The Boys In The Band'. Just the same old 'classic' cliches, and, curiously, just like with Socrates, with absolutely no reference to love. Same old shit.
It's always apparently 'young boys' getting fucked as some sort of ritual 'coming (hah!) of age'. And still it continues in modern culture in… oh my god, where do I start? North Africa, anywhere Muslim, The Middle East, Saudi Arabia – any culture where you're forbidden from fucking women until you're officially betrothed. We are talking medieval. It's perhaps akin to The Council Of Nicea which decreed the re-writing of the bible – removing all the honest and sexy bits (maybe the so-called Apostles were Jesus's fuck-buddies?) like ancient spin-doctors – back in AD 325.
Ancient and modern hymns, or hims, like some misogynistic rappers, or fundamentalist preachers of hate, putting-down and oppressing what they feared the most – the queer, male fun-da-mentalists.
I'll get into writing about 'rave culture' when I'm good and ready: suffice to say – many former football hooligans on ecstasy learned that getting their asses fucked and/or vice/versa, was not such a bad thing after all! You scored! Encore! Bravo, my brother!
Back to ancient Greece, Rome, and most of the rest of the world during that time, give or take a few hundred years, with all that 'boy-loving' nonsense: I believe it's a historical cover-up, and, swords and sandals notwithstanding. I reckon that it's time that someone did some serious unearthing of the actual truth! Don't hold your breath – 0r your finely-crafted leather dildo.
I started my self-imposed alcohol-free regime two nights ago, on the day I arrived. That evening was my first night without a glass or three of wine (echo… echo) with my dinner – with maybe a beer or two after and perhaps a vodka-and-tonic to help my creatively over-active brain go to sleep – for over five years.
I hadn't, however, told my doctor or my specialist (the head of gastroenterology at St Martha's in Maddington) that I was drinking more than 'the odd glass of vino'. Imagine how amusing it would be to try and say 'gastroenterology' correctly when pissed! Gashteroh…enter…my holiday ! They might, however, have tried to pack me off to some bleak, rehab' clinic where they'd no-doubt hold 'soul-bearing', group therapy sessions, should I have 'confessed'.
That's my idea of self-indulgent, breast-beating, melodramatic hell. Like being locked in a room-full of drag queens knocking back absinthe and bitters, having inadvertently necked shit-loads of GBH, thinking it was Ketamine. Almost certain death. They would fall like dominoes onto the grey, swirly, institutional lino, their cheap, slightly matted Amy Winehouse and Lady Ga Ga wigs askew, legs akimbo, lipstick smeared into grotesque caricatures… dissolve to swirling-return-to-real-life visuals.
Sorry about that somewhat disturbing dream-sequence. Anyway, what would there be to 'bare my soul' about? The relative merits of a vintage Aussie Shiraz over a Rioja Reserva? Ka!
As it happens, alcohol helps (or helped) me relax, chill, be creative and go to sleep, dammit! I admit that if you're depressed, then, being a depressant, it will probably only make it worse – and it does fuzzy-up your head quite a bit the next day. Also, it affects your motivation and judgment adversely, when you have over-indulged: OMG! I didn't send that cantankerous, drunken email to (delete where applicable) friend/ex-lover/someone-who-you-once-worked-with last night did I? Quick! Write a grovelling apology the minute you wake-up, blaming the drink, the drugs, the depression, your recently-discovered cancer, the death of the cat – anything to stop them sending a bunch of vigilantes to beat you to a pulp and steal your laptop and the last of your precious Thai Sticks.
Seriously though, I need to find out if the demon drink is responsible for this new wave of mystery illnesses – so I was trepidatious when I went to bed at around 1:am on my first night here – early for me! However, the balmy sea air wafting through the open windows and the always soothing sound of the waves provided a natural tranquilliser – which I'd sensibly backed-up with a real one – as I drifted-off to sleep thinking… this process of elimination will hopefully lead to a progress in illumination. Nice. The flickering lights out at sea turned into dreams of shipwrecks, scurvy, rats, sinking ships and half-naked, drunken sailors, whom I'd rescued from the raging seas, gratefully drinking my home-made vodka-based smoothies – laced with MDMA. Then the back pain woke me up. The sweats, at least, stayed away. It must have been the invasion of all those negative ions from the sea air (as opposed to the body-snatchers). I drank some water and thankfully returned to my reveries within a few minutes. The now-naked sailors were evidently enjoying each others' company immensely and seemed pleased to see me return. Avast behind, me hearties!
Back online (ish), I see it's 9:pm already and the gloaming is shrouding the bay and the headland like a gossamer fishing net, as the lights of the buildings and the boats start to reflect and twinkle on the water. It actually makes you sigh with pleasure… it would be even better with a nice, big glass of South African Cabernet Sauvignon. Yo ho ho and a bottle of…water.
Perhaps I need to catch-up with my myriad (well, one or two) potential lovers online, on PeoplePages and various gay dating-cum-shagging sites, where, being sensible, I only use the ones that are gratis, with unlimited messages and access. Why do dating sites charge people? They can surely easily earn from advertising and, perhaps, links to more, ahem, adult sites and naughty merchandise? But, of course, I'm a gay man who's a bit blase about how easy it is to get laid; no doubt a more raunchy (and frankly honest) approach would be deemed improper by mainstream dating sites – as they're aimed at middle-class professionals and the burgeoning 'silver surfer' market, which, unfortunately, I could be viewed as being part-of, in terms of, well, age. I'm fifty-seven – fifty-eight in November. I further confound their out-dated, homogenous demographic by living in gritty Hardesden in North London and I'm way too hip, bohemian and 'off message' to be of any use to their nonsensical, outdated and unedifying whimsies. Escorted tours? Coach trips? Cruises? The horror.
The baby boomers like me who were simply born cool (and, in my case, homosexual) didn't suddenly discover a penchant for tasteless, cheap porcelain, hideously unstylish sofas sold (always 'half-price') in warehouses near motorway slip roads, plastic conservatories, nasty knic-knacks, anaglyptic wallpaper, polyester, bare (not even energy-saving!) light bulbs, white plastic outdoor 'furniture', floral-print plastic shopping trollies, frozen faggots (no comment!) and tasteless ready-meals, doilies and swirly carpets did we? That's plain caravan-common, which is, of course, British for trailer-trash. You read it here first.
No, us cool BBs remain true to our icons, artists and gurus centered around fin de siecle Paris, like Picasso, Diaghilev, Monet and Stravinski – from Modernism, photography, film and philosophy in the late Twenties and the Thirties with Art Deco, The Bauhaus and the likes of Le Corbusier and Mies Van Der Rohe and great artists like Cole Porter and Cocteau; from the Forties, the birth of cool, the television revolution, the 'new deal', the 'new look', swing, Sinatra, and the end of austerity; The Fifties – Boho hip, beat poetry, abstract art, space-age design, the birth of new technology, mass-marketing, Elvis, great inventions, Marylin Monroe and the rebellious teen; the Sixties, sex n' drugs n' rock n' roll, pop-art, Warhol, The Beatles and the Stones and definitive UK style and, for some, prosperity – you've never had it so good; the Seventies – Kitsch, gender-bending, trash, riots, thrash and glam; the Eighties – soul, Thatcher, strikes, graffiti, protests, rap and the birth of the new UK clubbing generation (which I'm pleased that I was a pivital part of), in conjunction with an explosion of creative dynamism in fashion, culture and punk. Then… it all went a bit flat and drearily commercialised (TV commercials became mini-movies and people's messy beds became art) in the Nineties, apart from socio-politically – like the fall of the Berlin Wall and The Velvet Revolution in Eastern Europe – along with a new industrial revolution known as The Internet. I guess that The World Wide Web initially sounded too James Bond-villain – or conspiracy-theory friendly, as-in The Illuminati. Funny, that.
Mind you, in the early days, like around 1995, the media mostly maligned and mocked The Net, as it would later be generally known, as something merely for geeks and 'anoraks' As for the next decade, it might as well have been called the Noughty Netties, such was the impact of being online with broadband (Pirates!) on vast swathes of society.
Even shanty towns have makeshift internet cafes now, which is a good thing. And it also satisfied us human beings' innate desire to twitch the proverbial net (muslin for the middle classes, naturally) curtains online – both from inside and out.
The Muslim fun-da-mentalists, meanwhile, just merely twitched before flicking their suicide bombing switches. If you don't allow 'your people' to possess audio or video cassetttes or CDs and DVDs – then how come you spread your gruesome hatred and frankly medieval attitudes via the net? Fucking evil hypocrites. I've been told that must Muslim 'fundamentalism' is actually mostly political and territorial and mainly tribal warlords seeking power. Suicide bummers, indeed.
And guess who wrote one of the first weekly columns about the phenomenon? In 1996, yours truly reinvented himself as a journalist, adopting the pseudonym Webfoot to write the weekly internet column for 24/7 , London's foremost and hippest, weekly listings magazine. My brother Danny was their nightlife editor, had been for several years, and had posted me the weekly rag when I was living back home in Bath with my parents in 1995, following my unwitting homelessness ( I wonder if wrote about that particular trauma in my diaries at the time?). I used to read the mag avidly, greatly missing living in the capital – and even managed to take-in its nascent internet column, which was almost apologetic in its dullness.
I'd started hanging-out in the city's first internet cafe in a former bowling alley in the back of a pub in trendy, boho Walcot Street, possibly motivated by my great thirst for knowledge and expanding my horizons, not to mention my desperate desire to get laid (the city having only one gay pub, which was full of stereotypical, seventies-style fags who made me feel like I was in the wrong bar in the wrong decade; just plain wrong). Having read said dreary column I simply suggested to the editor (who I knew, having organised their 20th anniversary party for them), that I could do a much better job and would happily have a go at writing it. He agreed to let me try. I wrote my first attempted column and got the job immediately.
Thankfully, this enabled me to move back to London in early spring in '96. In my various pieces over nearly five years, I correctly predicted most of what's happening online now: social networking, gambling, porn, music and film piracy (but the latter bloated and arrogant industries naturally ignored my warnings. NO surprise there then), free downloads, political emancipation through people-power, the growth of cheap, online market research and… that internet advertising revenue would probably supersede that of television soon after the New Millennium – which brought howls of derision from the advertising industry in the 24/7 letters page. I feel quite smug about being right – right now – because it DID.
Overweight know-alls with oversized, red spectacles and novelty braces holding-up their too-tight Prada trousers. And women? Mostly in subservient positions, tending to their masters' frivolities and foibles through gritted, but glistening teeth (Madmen, the Visually-stunning American contemporary TV series set in the 60s springs to mind). My column lasted until late 1999, when Tricia Cuthbert, my former landlady, a man-hating, PC-led, lipstick lesbian (when it suited her), became the editor and then immediately sacked me, slurring her words, slouched behind her desk, after one of her regular liquid lunches, saying it was because there were too many people complaining about me in the letters page. I later found out that it was, in fact, because she wanted her then girlfriend (they'd met, slept together and got a joint mortgage the next day) to write the column.
Tricia lasted three months – about the same time as her relationship. Shadenfreude? You bet. But the higher-ups at 24/7 forgot to invite me back and nor did I ask; anyway, the money was crap.
I'd been heading for a career catastrophe, but, luckily, the previous month, fate had intervened. I came downstairs one afternoon (as is my wont) to find a plain, brown, handwritten letter sitting on the mat. It contained a list of all the ex (or current) members of Eaglestorm (AKA The Eagle Kings from 1978 – 1980, especially in my case) who were eligible for shares of a settlement relating to a former record label that had been brokered by their former manager Neville (Nev) Brown and his wife Ellie. I hadn't spoken to Neville for a few years, and he'd tracked me down through my dear friend Christabel, who'd used to run their office, and had suggested me for the job with what was one of The UK's most legendary space-rock bands. 1978? I'm looking forward to that particular year and the next, in my diaries – then we'll see who actually wrote what! Ask Frank Ferret – singer, guitarist and bastard thief and bootlegger of Babylon, or at least North Devon.
Now all I had to do was sign my consent, Nev and Ellie would take a quite fair 10%, and a cheque would soon be in the post for over £6,000 – once everyone else had signed too. Just as well, as the same delivery had also revealed a more official-looking letter which revealed that my one-year lease on my little flat and self-created roof-garden would be 'up' in two months and the landlords were giving me formal notice to quit, for no other reason than 'The flat is required for a member of the landlords' family to use as a pied-a-terre.' The slightly oleaginous Iranian who used to collect the monthly rent couldn't resist telling me that it was, in fact, for one of the landlords' mistresses.
'How fascinating – with a free roof garden thrown-in for nothing?' I'd responded sarcastically.
Didn't the landlords have any other similar properties to offer me? It wasn't as if I was behind with the rent or had smothered the flat in anarchistic graffiti or used it as a gay brothel.


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Thursday, 14 March 2013
The Final Study of Acorn Squash
Today I am finally starting the good copy of my vegetable painting assignment. I have been studying squash as you can see. In botanical art you always use live subjects rather than working from pictures, so it is nice that the squash keep for such a long time compared to flowers. I am progressing with the techniques though I still need to improve a little on the texturing. I need to find a way to make the dots on the green squash a little smaller.
For those that do not know, watercolour is a translucent medium unlike acrylics. So you cannot just paint tiny light green dots over a dark green surface. Instead you must apply masking fluid which reserves the previous colour (in this case light green) and then I paint over it all with dark green. Once the painting is dry I remove them and there they are, light green dots. However I need to achieve a finer spray of dots than what I have now. Even though I have been using a toothpick and a pin to apply the masking fluid it is hard to get consistent tiny little dots. Oh well, where there is a will there is a way.I hope to finish my good copy next week so I can mail it off to my tutor in the UK. Back to painting I go.
My next assignment involves the dissection of a singular species of flowering plant. I am trying to think of what might be a good plant to choose.
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In addition to personalizing service, giving shoppers choices empowers them to plot the details of their unique shopping experience. However, these choices require retailers to have a digital system capable of sharing information across their entire omnichannel enterprise to accommodate:
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Our private parking is in back, off Curtis Avenue. Please come to the main doors at the front of the house.
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- I-95 to I-91 NORTH then follow directions from New Haven CT below
- The Merritt Parkway (Rt. 15) NORTH to Exit 64 turn RIGHT off exit onto QUINNIPIAC ST.
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- B&B is on the right at CURTIS ST.
From Hartford, CT – 15 miles
- I-91 SOUTH to Exit 14 turn RIGHT off the Exit onto Center Street
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- Brainard Airport in Hartford is north on I-91 (25 min)
- Bradley International airport is located in Windsor Locks further north on I-91. (45 min)
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- LaGuardia airport is also located in New York approximately 90 miles south. (1.5 hours)
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Wallingford's beautifully restored train station is within walking distance.
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Join your local civil servants at Morgan School to discuss municipal progress and initiatives in economic development, education, public safety, and citywide improvements!
The Mayor is hosting a series of talks across the city wards and in several senior centers in order to provide a brief update of the city's social and economic progress followed by a Q&A section afterwards. He is hoping to inform residents about the exciting initiatives and programs coming into our city. Any residents of Ward Two are invited to attend, as well as anyone else in the area interested in learning about recent and upcoming developments in Holyoke.
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Color Theory: Olive Green's Comeback
You know how they say nothing is new and everything comes back in style? Well, there's a reason those are sayings. As of late I've been drawn to rooms with olivey green walls. I used to hate this color on walls, or anything in the "sage" family (or "cranberry" for that matter) in a home. And now, I'm digging variations of this color. I've always liked green, but more of a crisp emerald, or a green with blue tones to it. But olive/army/ sage looks AMAZING with brass or gold accents, leather, wood, marble, animal prints and has a very historic, cozy quality to it. Here are some inspired spaces using variations on the shade:
Here are some of my favorite color pairings with olive green:
*paint sample images from Pure Home.
Lots of people like plum and olive green together too, but as a child of the 80's all I can think about when I hear "purple and green" are the years I had braces and always chose those colors for my bands. File that under #scarredforlife #isurvivedthe80s.


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