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Archives for September 2014

The kitchen is often the scene of important conversations.

Perhaps national leaders should be given a big, yet cosy, kitchen to meet in!

Setting and atmosphere can have a big effect on the outcome of any rendezvous.

Hope you have a favorite restaurant.

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Dance with a stranger.

Invite a ranger.

Stay a little way from danger.

Take adventure to heart.

Be the start.

Play your own part.

Every day is a start.

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Spanish spoken in Andalusia sounds quite different, to that spoken in Madrid.

To the inexperienced ear it can be hard to understand one region’s spoken Spanish to that of another.

If you know both accents when someone is speaking your language in that “other” twang, you are doing better at communicating.

Obvious. Yet often unnapreciated.

So it’s a thought, as tohow many languages there really are, in the world.

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If I refuse to write and you refuse to speak, what should we publish?

I no-one will accept your money at the cash register, how will you buy anything?

If nobody presents finished and ready-to-consume entertainmemnt, will you provide your own?

You have many stories to tell. We all do.

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No need to cry. But at times you know you should.

Hopefully much of the time laughter seems OK.

And laughter, my friends, is good for you.

So good – i’m off to write a joke.

Bye now!

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