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HOME MAINTENANCE - IN PRAISE OF DO IT YOURSELF - THE CASE OF THE LEAKING TOILET FLUSH ! FINIS!!

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This leads me to an experience I had with an internally leaking toilet flush.  So, the problem I had was this: I flushed the cistern, but it was not refilling, as the water entering it from the intake pipe was leaking out of the cistern into the toilet.  The first challenge I had was to diagnose the problem; to find out what was causing this to happen.  On reflection, I can now perceive how this should have been seen as 'a case of the relevant opening and closing valve which lets the water into the toilet pan to flush it, is not closing properly.  I would have liked to have approached trying to resolve the problem in a more more methodical manner, including having made the hypothesis that it was something blocking the bottom flush valve.  And then focus on trying to finding out if that was indeed the cause. Which it would transpire to have been. Anyway, my non professional approach was to repeatedly press the flush button and press the flush system down onto its base, to see if the

HOME MAINTENANCE - IN PRAISE OF DO IT YOURSELF - THE CASE OF THE LEAKING TOILET FLUSH ! PART 1.

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  Not everybody has a home, in the 'normal understanding of what 'a home' signifies.  In its broader concept, we could define 'home' as the specific place where we normally live and sleep.  From this we can have a workable understanding of what home maintenance should or ought to be.  Which is namely to keep our home and its contents in reasonably good working order.  Maintaining our homes can be a costly business, which is why it is both cost-effective and prudent for us to learn and equip ourselves as much as we can, to keep our homes and the utilities and equipment in it a reasonable state.  This includes things like keeping the outside and inside of our homes and the equipment in it clean, and handing things with care, so as to minimise the occurrence of intended damage and wear and tear. There is a risk of causing damage and/or sustaining personal harm arising from us attempting to perform home maintenance.  So it is necessary for us to do the necessary homewor

Moon-Shorts. Summer 2022

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Thou the Sun be vital for the the continuation of all life, it is to the Moor that us humans own most of our affection. Probably partly because we can gaze upon her luminous face in wonder and with not much risk of being blinded or consumed by her countenance.  

JUST PHILOSOPHISING - ON THE CIRCULARITY OF PARTY POLITICS, AND THE INSURGENCY OF DIGITALISM!! PART 1.

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It is of vital importance and benefit to our human species that our young should continue to have hope in our humanity and in  our collective ability to improve our conditions of our existence. It is in the young of our species that we will and can find hope, optimism and a sense of 'can do.'  This is because our young people have not had their innocence and their optimism, their sense of aspiration abused and battered by blunt experience like those of us who have lived longer than they have.  Of course, with the now intense and pervasive intrusiveness of the internet and national and multi-national media and social media agencies.  Our young are now being targeted by and/or are massively susceptible to being bombarded by processed information about what is happening globally at an earlier age.  Something which means that 'there age of innocence' has been greatly compacted and/or shortened. Although this phenomena will have some merits for both the impacted young people

JUST A THOUGHT ON - IF I WERE A MAN, OR, INDEED, WOMAN OF THE CLOTH, HOW WOULD I BE ABLE ...? THE END !!

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  Thus religious life continues as if there is not insurmountable and valid evidence that it is based on fiction, on myth, instead of fact and history.  Conscientious and intelligent men and women of the cloth, still continue to perform religious rites and rituals and make pronouncements about 'God', as if  he  really  exists  and has any objective relevance to us humans.  Beyond that which religion has deceptively attributed to him by our ancestors, and reinforced by the present clergies.  The motivation, now that the evidence is there for those who are courageous enough to examine it, and then go on to making the necessary changes it warrants, can only be that of continuing to deceive the masses.  It has to be at least in part, probably primarily so, about being loyal and faithful to the errant and, in some cases, deliberately conspiratorial apostles, priests, disciples, et al by refusing to acknowledge 'the truth' about the  'holy gospels.'    The truth being

BRITISH GRAND PRIX - WON BY CARLOS SAINZ AND FERRARI, BUT MERCEDES AND HAMILTON ARE BACK...!!!!!

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  A Very Big Congratulation to Carlos Sainz and Team Ferrari, for having triumph by winning the British Grand Prix at Silverstone Circuit on Sunday 3rd July 2022, and to Sergio Perez and Team Red Bull, for making it to P.2. In what was a most exciting and thrilling grand prix, arguably the most adrenalised Formula 1 race of the 2022 season so far, probably the most significant outcome of the race was what it said about Team Mercedes and their racers.   While George Russell had the misfortune of suffering a dnf during an explosive first lap of the race.   One which saw Zhou Guanyu's Alfa Romero's flipped over on its back and spun wildly towards the circuit barrier and flipped over it before coming to rest.  All because of the manic and collision strewn first lap. It was undoubtedly a thrilling race, but there was always the feeling that anything could happen, and sometimes it did.  With the race having to be restarted after having been Red Flagged as those in charge went about r

JUST PHILOSOPHISING ON - THE IMPOVERISHMENT OF BEING ONLY ABLE TO LIVE A 'ONE-DIMENSIONAL LIFE'! FINIS !!

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  Music can and does performs the role of being an accompaniment to many of the activities us humans perform in our daily lives.  Like a chosen wife for the appropriate menu, the right music can help to put us in the 'right mood' for love, for war, for contemplation, for feelings of pain or grief, for working fast or slow, and so on. Music can act like a drug on us. It can soothe our restless and anxious 'souls', or it can help us to 'snap' out of our melancholic mood.  And so it seems to me, that we are richer and healthier to be blessed to have access to different kinds of music, considering that no one genre is likely to be able to suffice our changing moods needs at any given time.  Whether it be for music which cheers us up, assist our need for reassurance, helps us to better contemplate our options, or navigate our sadness or sorrow. Probably even more profoundly, music, like language, can and does reflect the 'soul', the identity and culture of it