Recent content by Octavo_48

This is a book essentially for younger people I think, but I thought I'd post it here because I fully intend to buy a copy for my grandson. He is only 8 years old but, like many young children he's starting to feel the pressure of life in the 21st century and there are so messages in this book...

I just completed season 1 of "For All Mankind" on Apple TV. I read that it was classified as science fiction which I guess (in essence) it is but not in the Star Wars etc meaning of the words. It imagines a future where the space race in the 60s went in a completely different direction. But the...

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"Help me make the most of freedom and of pleasure, nothing ever lasts for ever"

My son once said to me "Aww dad that's just not cool" ... I told him to find his own word and not to try and appropriate a word that we, the boomers, invented. I don't believe there will ever be a "cooler" generation than ours ... we've done it all !!! ... and then some.

I just discovered the music of Eric Whitacre ... so emotionally uplifting.

Hi folks ... been away but (like the 'bad penny') I'm back again :) This thread caught my eye because I've started one of those "seemed like a good idea at the time" projects. A while ago my daughter bought me a Kintsugi kit. This is a traditional Japanese method of repairing damaged or broken...

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Not really a royalist as such but this is an astonishing piece of music (sang it once .. in a choir of course lol) strap yourselves in at 1:22 :)

The first single I ever bought :)

Amazing ... These guys put this together during a livestream ... I watched most of it lol (Yawn)