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I am about to say something highly controversial. In my ever so humble opinion, I think that when sitting in the Houses of Parliament in London, Members of Parliament should be following whatever debate is in progress. They should not be on their mobile phones checking stuff out, e-mailing,  booking holidays or even blogging And they should certainly not be drooling over their favourite porn sites. Apart from anything else, The House of Commons is a workplace and in a workplace you are, surprisingly enough, meant to be working. I sometimes tune into BBC Parliament on our television and on many occasions I have observed MP's using their smartphones right behind colleagues who are making points, asking questions or delivering speeches. Perhaps I have turned into an old fuddy duddy but I think this is outrageous. The careless habit is surely sending out a message to schoolchildren and university students alike that when you are in a lesson or a lecture it's okay to use yo...

 It’s been a day of two halves .  The dawn chorus  Then The Play That Went Wrong at Theatr Clwyd. Both enjoyable for completely different reasons . I said to my sister Janet, on the way home tonight , that in this my 60th year  I’m going to do all the things I’ve never done before as well as all of the things I like to do too If that makes sense . Still on my bucket list for this year Go camping in a tent Go to a European city  mini break with my old girlfriend Jane, Driving through Ireland to Nu’s cottage, A holiday break abroad totally alone, Dance in public Start my counselling course Learn a totally new skill  Walk up Snowdon  I’ve booked five already….. Hey ho from Going Gently https://ift.tt/MlJ5DQT

 I went on a dawn walk this morning.  A first for me. I saw it advertised in Holywell when I popped into Tesco “ Dawn Walk With A Twitcher - birdsong explained” The meeting place was in Caerwys before 5 am  I was the last to arrive. There was ten of us, all told, led by a quietly spoken man in his sixties called Eifion. We were led down a bridle path by torch light and from time we’d stop to have a brief lecture  It was an interesting and somewhat cold early morning But an invigorating one The robins and blackbirds and the more rare thrush, were the first on the performance with other birds such as wrens, wood pigeons  and warblers joining in. The likes of the tits and the finches usually only start to sing when dawn has broken. Apparently it is usually the male birds that call and at times the sound was amazingly loud One woman in the group had a good cry at the experience and kept apologising for it. I liked the feeling of being anonymous in ...