Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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This is a sci-fi future
Do you remember life before the internet? I’m hurtling towards my 64th birthday. When I was born a computer was a very specialised piece of equipment and the “average man on the street” would only know of the concept from sci-fi books and movies. Computers still had their own rooms with a cabled intranet when…
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How can it already be mid April?
I feel like this year has been tediously slow and lightning fast both at the same time this year. I finished the apple core quilt a week and a half ago when I made a label and bound the raw edges it took me 4 weeks from cutting the apple cores to gifting it to…
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A Quilter’s Parable
Sometimes we can obsess with perfection. The top shape in this drawer is an apple core it has 2 concave, and 2 convex sides. When these patches are sewn into pairs a convex curve is sewn into a concave side. *we can ignore the clamshells at the bottom they just happen to share the drawer.…
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February round up
5 days after my last blogpost I had a bad fall badly bruising my ribs. My sewing was on hold all month. Just over a week later my daughter and grandson arrived for their visit. 5.5 weeks later I’m still not totally recovered, heavy lifting still causes twinges so to be safe I won’t be…
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Where did January go?
It started with doing some quilting over the first 10 days. Then a couple of weeks of reorganising and decluttering my living room/ sewing room. Finally summing up the courage to trim the quilt. https://youtu.be/v03IFyYmWsI?si=b1BLd6UGoXI-7JP6 Then I pressed the binding in half winding it onto an empty ribbon spool ready to sew it onto the…
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Sad start to the year
I’ve just found out that Wayne Osmond the bass singer in the first band I became a total fan of has died. He was 10 years older than I and I have loved The Osmonds since I was 11 (52 years) and first heard Crazy Horses. As a band I was willing to move money…
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Travelling home
Aka A nightmare journey? I’ve learned that rail journeys are never straightforward at holiday times (Christmas and Easter) and today was no exception. It began well arriving at Cleethorpes station in plenty of time and being taken straight to the train and seated. I’d be changing at a new to me station, Retford in Nottinghamshire…
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Chris McCausland
A stand up comedian who is totally blind has just won Strictly Come Dancing here in the UK. His success surely can’t be anything but positive? Actually no. Already the “if he can do it why can’t others” rhetoric is starting. Also the he wasn’t the best dancer he only got the sympathy vote rhetoric.…
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Under a Mackerel Sky
This mackerel sky today reminded me I was about 50 when I learned the name is due to the cloud pattern looking like the pattern on mackerel skin… not because it was when mackerel was caught which was what my big sister told me when I was about 7 and she was 9. Of course…
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Chris McCausland Strictly Superstar
It infuriates me how tweets about Chris a comedian who happens to be blind (having lost his sight to Retinitis Pigmentosa) who is dancing in the BBC programme either gush sentimentally about how great he is as a blind person, how his partner (professional Dianne Buswell) deserves a special award for teaching him, or how…
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