Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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A month of Reading and Sewing
In January I started reading the Daisy Dalrymple series of books by Carola Dunn set in the 1920s.They are currently available in the Plus Catalogue on Audible here in the UK. Today (3rd February 2024) I finished the 20th title in the series (Gone West-photo on the left of the collage below- just 3 to…
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The promise of spring
What is that texture of white at ground level hidden in the blur? Is it evidence of a faerie artisan practicing making the perfect floor lamp? From the side the white petals hang from a tendril stem with “umbrella” above looking like a snipped blade of grass to shelter the bright light bulb. From underneath…
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A stressful journey after Christmas in Cleethorpes.
Due to problems I was having with this blog (I couldn’t get posts to publish) I wasn’t blogging over Christmas but wanted to share this thread of tweets I wrote the day after the journey in question “Yesterday’s train trip home was a bit chaotic thanks to #StormGerritSome delays meant getting home nearly an hour…
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Walking in the woods (part 2)
I found some other words and quotes that perfectly describe me and my walks. Nemorivagant- an adjective or noun to describe someone who wanders through the woods. The last verse of “In the woods” a poem by Lucy Maud Montgomery . The woods are never lonely, as I stray Adown rain-freshened slopes I hear today…
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Walking in the woods (part 1)
It’s no secret I love walking solo in the woods and countryside around my hometown. When I found this quote “I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.” by Henry David Thoreau I thought it suited me completely. Then I found that there was a word that also described me completely:-nemophilist…
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Why I use an Apple Watch.
A comment on a Twitter/ X post got me thinking “Have never understood why anyone would pay hundreds of pounds for a smart watch…🤷. For the record a watch only ticks the relevant box if it has hands on it that rotate around the circumference of the dial!” The original post was a poll asking…
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How I use Audible
For me one of the most difficult things about losing my sight (even before I knew I was becoming blind) was how difficult reading text was becoming. First I was aware I couldn’t read print without taking my specs off and holding the page close to my face… at this point we were thinking it…
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Facebook memory about Charles Bonnet Syndrome
This Facebook memory is from 6 January 2019. “This came up in my memories today from four years ago and when I’m sitting opposite you across a table that is about 25 inches wide so when we sit with our chairs tucked in our faces are about three feet apart this is how I see…
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Look how far I’ve come
A memory from Facebook on 6 September 2017 “How did my day go Facebook asks. Well after fun with my grandson had a hospital appointment (need an MRI on my back to check what damage I did a few months back since it still hurts and new pill to protect the bones because having been…
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Oh My Gosh 2
I’m having a slight leaking eye problem as this is the description the Be My AI function has come up with for the hexagon in this screenshot “In the picture, there is a hexagonal piece of fabric placed on a wooden surface. The fabric has three different patterns on it. One section of the fabric…
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