Walking Thoughts

 The house known as January. 11 Braintree Road is Victorian Terrace. It’s an end of terrace house and a row of neat Terraced houses close to the railway station. Many, if not, all front gardens have been paid over to allow for parking. Road has stood there for 150 years. In that time, a wide variety of people have lived there. Possibly never quite so wide north, so varied as when Ann had lodgers. Hugh fancied himself and thought that women fancied him too. He had a big head in every sense. It was actually just a large head. On his neck, I mean the other I don’t know about but he would’ve liked me to. One of the things said to me if you play your cards right you could have all this indicating himself. Puke. hugh worked at the maltings. The town malting was one of the things that contributed the very special smell, but hung over the town. A mixture of pet food artificial flavouring and hops. Sometimes the local service treat works, joined in to add to whatever the smell equivalent of...

 Matter can neither be created, nor destroyed. All of the atoms are exist, continue to exist. In one huge worldwide, mass balance. carbon atoms change place and solid carbon to gaseous carbon, oxygen atoms hydrogen atoms. They all move around. They become part of water and then part of alcohol and then back to being part of water again. People animals, and plants all die, decompose, and the material that makes up their bodies, is redistributed in the great scheme of the world.  The same is true for computer programmers. 40 years ago while we had computers, life was less digital. We did not yet have emails or the Internet, so while we were using computers, print-out was still a thing. We had special computer paper with a row of holes down each side of the paper and perforations that allowed the printer to run the paper through when it printed on it, like a set of tracks. It is on such paper that I printed out my computer programs. Since then, that paper has been recycled or thr...

 The younger member of my team think they invented coding. They think because I’m over 40 that I won’t be able to do it. I’ve even had a data scientist say to me, oh so you’re not scared of coding and he showed me a page code. I was a member of the computer club at School. So I’ve actually been coding since before these people were born. I’ve been coding for more years than they’ve been on the planet. Some of my computer code printout, as that’s what we had Then, have probably formed atoms that make up part of their DNA. In computer club in the 1980s, we used BBC basic. In 1990, I went to university. Here I studied technological physics. Computing was one of my subjects on the course. The hours of maths, physics and electronics. The mathematics of coding is one of the things that I studied at university level. So please don’t say that I can’t do coding.

 I’m feeling a great sense of clarity today, of peace. Considering water and sailing and dolphins and resolution. Addressing the root pool of environmental damage and living it, so I’m feeling coming together of my professional personal experiences around saving and travel and hard work throwing out without a car has given me the advantage of always having undertaken many challenges and ambitions with much less environmental impact are your teeth, the greatest of my ambitions, without ever driving your car or flying in a plane The fulfilment of education of career aspiration of raising a family of friendship of leadership and mentoring of imparting of myself to our vegetarianism and absence of consumerism, so simplicity, truthfulness equality the first of these simplicity and truthfulness is frankly form of pride and equality just means more friends .

 As a leader I give a lot of myself. I believe this makes me a better leader. It makes use of my talents, my experience. Giving of myself makes me more accessible to my team, and allows me to grow personally and professionally. I get as much from my team too. Leadership is a fabulous relationship and valuable to all who participate. It can be exhausting of course. But with that comes personal growth and self acceptance.

 This week I need to collect a urine sample from Jonathan to take to the doctors. The doctor is a 15 minute journey each way, so it’s a 30 minute round-trip plus the delivery of the urine sample to the doctors . at the weekend We wrote his options together and last week I attended a parents evening. School is in a different direction to the doctors is a 20 minute journey, each way, so a 40 minute round-trip and an hour or two at the parents evening. He has an appointment with the diabetes team to see his consultant for his annual review on the 8th of February which is in nine days. The diabetes appointment with a consultant is another town again 10 to 15 minutes away so maybe 25 minutes round-trip.  And then on the 22nd of February, he has his eye screening test. This is close to the school. I have to complete a diary for him in the 3 to 5 days for food, blood sugar and insulin for 3 to 5 days before that appointment and I myself have had an x-ray appointment open for the last...

 Did you go to estate School? Yes, I am state educated I went to Colchester County high school for girls. It’s a grammar school and I believe strongly that grammar schools offer the opportunity for education to people who come from backgrounds without privilege. Tell me about your home background I grew up in a family of four in a two bedroom bungalow in Essex. It was a commuter town. Both my parents would get up early to walk the mile distance to the station to catch a train to stand for an hour into London and then walk to their offices or onto the tube to finish their journeys to work. That was the norm, and I knew no different, and it is what I went on to do when I first left School. At 18 I began the commute the mile walk to the station, the hour on the train, the walk to the office.  Werewolves that job My office was on old Broad Street. I worked at Barclays Bank as an office clerk. Two bedrooms? Yes, I shared a bedroom with my sister growing up until we were 18. She was...

 Jonathan is travelling home from school on the school bus. The school bus breaks down Parkway home. I track the bus journey on Life360 and the glucose levels of Jonathan blood on follow. His levels are low, and the bus is not moving. Overtime, my track the blood levels against the progress of the bus and his levels drop and drop. Eventually, it becomes fair I’m going to have to travel out to the broken down bus as administrative glucose. He said I both get there with a glucose emergency ration. His blood levels are 0.994 is unconscious. Unconsciously cannot be given the emergency glucose gel because he cannot swallow and there’s a risk he would choke. So an ambulance is called. His blood level is 4 to 0.7. The air is still not here and could be another 15 minutes. But I say we cannot give him glucose because he cannot swallow. And then I remember reading about an alcoholic who is mouth and throat cancer. He cannot swallow, but he needs alcohol. His wife, administer Sherry into his...

 I wake up with a sense of soul, crushing emptiness. We have no purpose or motivation. I have plenty of things to get on with by 7:20 am. All of the absolute necessary. Things are complete. And then there’s a full of emptiness, and it’s not even late yet. It’s still dark outside, and the Sun doesn’t come up at this time of year until gone 8 am. It begins to be light about 20 minutes before so at 7:49 I go out and put the washing on the line. It’s not gonna rain at all but it won’t get much above freezing it’s got all day. And it’s better than the wet washing hanging around inside the house. I put out recycling into the silver bin one 04 bins. It’s just light to make out the different colours of the different bins so that I can put the recycling into the correct one that I have two for packaging star recycling and one for garden recycling, so 25% of my bin capacity is for landfill which seems like a good ratio and because I don’t put that one out every time it’s more like 12 1/2% . ...

 England is said to have between three and six remaining bridges with chapels. The oldest is in Wakefield. It is the Chantry Chapel of Saint Mary, the virgin. It is the most elaborate of the chapels and was built between 1342 and 1356. Location Wakefield Chapel Bridge is just south of the city, on the nine arch bridge over the river Calder.

 I was raised by my mother with the value of truthfulness. In accordance with my mother’s Quaker faith. My mother taught me, fundamentally, strenuously that the standard of truthfulness expected in a court of law, to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, is the same standard all the time every minute of every day. Truthfulness Is a fundamental and sincerely held belief of mine. An inviolable belief. It is, for this reason that I, in common with Quakers,, will not swear an oath in a court of law. This is one example of how my belief in truthfulness has a significant impact on my life, choices and decisions. Such beliefs are protected characteristics. It has equal status with the protected characteristics of religion and race. To offend the protected characteristic of my belief Is equally as offensive as to offend a person’s religion or race. When asked a question, I answer truthfully to the same standard that you would expect in a court of law, the truth, the w...

  Knights Templar  Temple Bruer with Temple High Grange, Lincoln LN5 0DG

 Spa trail is a disused railway line. It forms part of the Viking Way. A Viking longboat sculpture is  Located north east of Martin Bridge. Location Horncastle  Road, Roughton, Lincolnshire  LN10 6YQ

 Tupholme Lincoln ln3 5th Tupholme Abbey was a Premonstratensian abbey, the abbey was largely destroyed by 1538, after being seized during Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries. The remaining ruins located in a field may be visited, free of charge, any day, from dawn until dusk.

 Byard’s leap Site where a blind horse Byard killed Old Meg the witch with a 60 foot leap Unafraid of her appearance on account of his blindness byard was the chosen stead for the journey to Old Meg’s lair. The horse was not, however, immune to the witches sharp nails, jabbed into his rear. Four Horseshoes mark the spot, from which byard leapt, and another four 60 feet away, mark the site upon which byard landed. It is at the end of the leap, the landing spot where old Meg was crushed beneath byard’s hooves and killed. Location  Byards Leap, NG34 8EY 53.03,22 -0.5251

 The Bowthorpe Oak is a great tree of great age. Considered to be 800 to 1,000 years old the oak was first referenced in 1760. At that time the tree was already of great age having a hollow trunk capable of accommodating 20 seated diners. Location Bowthorpe park farm Lincs weekends and bank holidays in summer 52.7253 -0.4225

 FW3/22 pillbox Stretton road, stretton, Rutland  52.726105, - 0.604039

  memorial  to commemorate the second world war(1939-1945  with wings of a Spitfire and a P51 Mustang supported by the twin booms of a Lockheed P38 Lightning.  Location  Wansford to King's Cliffe Road, King's Cliffe PE8 6XU England

 Description Glenn Miller Memorial Pyramidal Memorial to major Glenn Miller who conducted his orchestra for its last airfield hanger concert on the 3rd of October 1944. The memorial is on the former airfield at Kingscliff near Peterborough. It sits on the concrete slab of base of one of the former hangers. It marks the place where Glen gave his last airfield concert before he disappeared. Kingscliff airfield was a World War II, RAF and US Air Force, fighter airfield. It was here, that Glenn Miller and his band performed their last public performance before the jazz musician disappeared on a cross channel flight. Location RAF King's Cliffe airfield is on an unnamed road just off of King's Cliffe Road, about 12 miles west of Peterborough in Cambridgeshire. Kings Cliffe  Ne Peterborough  52.5653 -0.4673

 Background  30 foot tall dovecote from 1370. Residual remains of a medieval collegiate. Can be viewed from sibthorpe church, church lane, sibthorpe. Location Church lane Sibthorpe, Notts 53.0004 -0.8624

  Background the Singapore locomotive witnessed one of the darkest events in British military history. It, along with about 80,000 Allied servicemen, were taken as prisoners of war when the Japanese invaded  Singapore  in 1942. Built in  Scotland , the locomotive arrived in the Singapore Naval Dockyard three years before the start of World War II. The train—and the men who worked it—did not fare easily once the war began. It suffered severe damage when the Japanese sieged Singapore in February of 1942. Even now, its right hand cylinder cover and boiler cladding sheets bear the scars of the bullet and shrapnel damage it endured. The train remained in Singapore, though a number of the Allied prisoners who were captured along with it were forced to work on the so-called “Burma-Siam Death Railway,” which was immortalized in the film  Bridge on the River Kwai . When the war ended, more than 100 Japanese officials who oversaw the railroad’s construction were tried and...

 Picture Background Standing in the plaza of city square in Leeds. A series of four lamp bearers, in the shape of almost nude female figures. There are two types: one is named even (evening), holding a lamp in her right hand, with her other hand to her head, and the other morn (morning), who holds a lamp in her left hand and is clutching some flowers. Location  City Square, Leeds LS1 2ES Located in a semi-circle opposite the front of the old Post Office.

 

Background The statue was the result of a visit to New York in 1919 by the directors of Lennards "Liberty" shoe factory, and originally stood on top of the shoe factory. It was created by  local stonemason Joseph Morcom. Picture  Location In the trees by the roundabout on walnut street. On on the western entrance to the Swan Gyratory, a large roundabout making use of two steel bridges across the Soar. 

 At the beginning of the film World War II, Brad Pitt and his family have to leave the car during the chaos. All of this takes place in Philadelphia in the film, but was filmed in George Square in Glasgow. If you’re a film locations fan, as I am then the square is worth visiting just for this fact. However, it’s also worth visiting. For the Street art, for the incredible murals painted on city walls.

 Gary work the truckstop, he worked the night shift on reception. Reception was not just where telephone calls were taken and hotel keys were distributed. Reception was also the shop and management for the showers. The shop sold a small amount of groceries, a small amount of toiletries, but also 12 V fridges radios for HGV nuts, bolt CDs newspapers. A mix of everything I might need when stopping overnight. It was badly ran and badly managed a lot of stuff was missing a lot wasn’t priced up. Track drivers arrive in a particularly bad mood and a very badly managed truckstop where they were given extra difficulty, and simply trying to buy a Mars bar or a pint of milk didn’t help them with that mood. Truck drivers parking up for the night had the option of taking a complimentary shower. A £1 deposit was taken to ensure the key came back. When the key came back with the truck driver, got his pound. Thinking about that, it was probably too smaller deposit, but then what if you are allowe...

 Myself, Becky and Judy all had jobs. We worked at the local truckstop. Becky had a car. I worked a lot of different shifts but six till two was my favourite shift, and I settled into a routine of mainly doing 6 am in the morning till 2 pm in the afternoon. As often as possible possible, I took overtime after 2 pm as well. At 5:15 every morning we would all pile into Becky’s car. It was a clapped out and very old Ford fiesta. It was white where paint remained. Owing to a combination of rural roads and the condition of the car, all journeys to work were interesting and not without incident. In the winter, when ice and snow lay on the roads, the precarious journey took place largely sideways. Becky drove like a fearless Demon. Which is just as well because we always got there, and in fact, we were always early. Becky and Judy both worked in the kitchen while I worked on reception. To this day, I still have a plate which could only have been liberated from that kitchen. Judy made a ca...

 Justice for people should be available to all. not just available but actively provided for people. It should be actively described, explained, made very, very accessible, almost forced upon people so that people can take up justice. It should be in the street on the Internet in the supermarket on the train at the station at bus stops. There are people, I believe it is most of us, who do not have a voice. We cannot seek Justice. Through ignorance and lack of education through anxiety through fear. We do not have a voice we do not have access to Justice. Access to justice is offered as an illusion whereby in theory you can seek justice, there are places that you’re supposed to be able to go to ask for Justice. But you have to go to them and you have to be aware of what they are and where and how and what will happen when you get there.  but also what about mental health support to do that in the first place?. People are ignorant and lack education and have anxiety and have hom...

 Tom Cribbs Meadow is the site on which the bare knuckle fighter Tom Cribb  fought the American, former slave  Tom Molineaux ,  in 1811, beating him in 11 rounds watched by 15,000 people. This is quite a thing to imagine while standing in this now, very peaceful place. Some might consider that the Meadow ought to be named for Tom Molineux, and not Tom Cribb, for the story of the former slave is, perhaps one of Great Merit.. Their previous fight, the year before had been controversial  because Molineaux was injured when the crowd invaded the ring, and Cribb at one point seemed to have taken longer than the specified time to return to the centre of the ring. It may be that the second fight at this location, Tom Cribbs, Meadow in Rutland, was to settle that dispute, and prove that Cribbs was the victor. The meadow is  at  Thistleton Gap  in  Rutland . Today it is a peaceful place blessed with wide natural diversity. Tom Cribb  (8 July 1781 ...