Sunday, 8 March 2009

Off Sick.

After being at work for an hour this morning, I spoke to my manager, and a colleague then made my way, back home to bed. What's the problem? Nausea, slight headache...

On my way home I rang my son and spoke to his foster father, who informed me that he was up with my son last night. My son's temperature had risen during the night, but he is now recovering. Hmmm...

Tomorrow morning I have a appointment with Wendy in Victoria. So just for today, I'll stay in bed and rest.

Saturday, 7 March 2009

Cry And You Cry...

Distracted, may be a accurate description of me at this moment in time. Why? I have just had a five minute telephone conversation with my beloved son. He told me that he has a headache and even though he had rested for four hours, he still has a headache and could not speak longer because of it.
At times like this, when my son is unwell, I find myself powerless. Time for Silence, the Serenity Prayer and Chanting.
...Alone

Laugh And The World Laughs...

Giuseppe Torelli

Courtney Pine

Wallace & Gromit

Abigail's Party

Wednesday, 4 March 2009

'A Jihad For Love.'


True Stories: A Jihad For Love www.youtube.com/watch?v=78jUBRio3So is publicised as a 'Documentary which aims to identify aspects of Islamic practice and scripture that resonate with gay culture,' www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Jihad_for_Love


compassionate and moving exploration of Islam and homosexuality talks to men and women of the Muslim faith who are courageous and defiant about their sexuality.'

This documentary can be watched in full for the next 30 days, online on free catch-up on www.channel4.com

Also, if you search 'Hebden Bridge' in the Guardian www.guardian.co.uk/ Unlimited search box, it'll pull up several articles including the following:

Hebden Bridge

UK news
Lesbians the toast of the Two Ferrets

The Observer, Sunday July 29 2001
Amelia Hil
Berbard Ingham, Margaret Thatcher's press secretary, used to say that if it wasn't being talked about in the tap room of the Two Ferrets in Hebden Bridge, the Pennine home of his birth, then it wasn't a matter of public interest. Ingham's Two Ferrets was a fictional pub, but the revelation last week that humble Hebden Bridge could be the lesbian hub of Britain comes as no (...)
(...)talked about in the tap room of the Two Ferrets in Hebden Bridge, the Pennine home of his birth, then it wasn't (...)
Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire has been outed as the Sapphic capital of (...)

FUTURE FUSION GLOBAL WARNING RADIO SHOW with Nikki Lucas If ya miss me live shows you can catch ‘Global Warning’ again on web radio http://www.righton.fm Presenter/ DJ Nikki Lucas takes on the guise of a cultural freedom fighter armed with music and United Nations backing to set off a funky global warning. For further information please visit http://www.myspace.com/nikki_lucas> THIS MONTHS SHOW March 2009 We have new music from Bassekou Kouyaté, Una Mas Trio, The Juju Orchestra, Afrozen Orchestra & Lovemonk Recordings. Our guest in the mix is Domu Reprezenting the U.K and we be ending the show with a special urban Paris mix with artists like Tunisiano, Cheb Amar, Krys and Marc Lenoir

On Friday, I will restart my 'Get Moving' part of 'Time To Change www.time-to-change.org.uk Swimming to exercise pledge. I will also be writing a regular blog about my journey towards 'A Physical Awakening.'

I Feel Fine.

Tina Turner Let's Stay Together Lyrics:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBTJYnuZOHQ

let me say since

since we`ve been together

loving you forever

is all I need

let me be the one you come running to

I`ll never be untrue oh baby

[chorus] let`s, let`s stay together

loving you whether, whether times are good or bad, happy or sad

I, I`m so in love with you

whatever you want to do

it`s alright with me

let me be the one you come running to

I`ll never be untrue oh baby

[chorus] why, oh tell me, why do people break up,

and turn around and make up

I just can't see

you`d never do that to me, would ya baby

being around you is all I see, oh baby

This evening I attended a fabulous Tina Turner live performance at the o2 Arena. On my way home, I sang, I Feel Fine www.youtube.com/watch?v=PykzyxWYS3Y by The Beatles to myself. Wonderful.

The Beatles, I Feel Fine, lyrics

Baby's good to me, you know,

she's happy as can be, you know, she said so.

I'm in love with her, and I feel fine.

Baby says she's mine, you know,

she tells me all the time, you know, she said so.

I'm in love with her, and I feel fine.

I'm so glad, that she's my little girl.

She's so glad, she's telling all the world,

that her baby buys her things, you know,

he buys her diamond rings, you know, she said so.

She's in love with me, and I feel fine,

mmm....Baby says she's mine, you know,

she tells me all the time, you know, she said so.

I'm in love with her and I feel fine.

I'm so glad that she's my little girl.

She's so glad, she's telling all the world,

that her baby buys her things, you know,

he buys her diamond rings, you know, she said so.

She's in love with me, and I feel fine, mmm, mmm.

She's in love with me, and I feel fine, mmm, mmm.

Monday, 2 March 2009

First Things First.

Red Arrows
Last Saturday, my son asked me to sort out a query that he has. Aircraft related. Mosquitos... So, this morning, I went to work via my son's beloved Transair Pilot Shop www.transair.co.uk and I hope to have found a satisfactory solution for him, by the time I next see him.
Today besides enticing my sensibilities with ideas of eskandar www.eskandar.com/ my eyes were opened to the amazing Disabled Living Foundation www.dlf.org.uk I found courses www.dlf.org.uk/training plus information on Ask SARA www.asksara.org.uk NADP [National Association of Deafened People] www.nadp.org.uk The National Deaf Children's Society www.ndcs.org.uk RNID www.rnid.org.uk/ JDA [Jewish Deaf Association] www.jewishdeaf.org.uk Hearing Dogs for Deaf People www.hearing-dogs.co.uk DeafBlind UK www.deafblind.org.uk RNIB www.rnib.org.uk/ and much more
I found, some more books that I am keen to read:
The complete works of William Shakespeare
The Shakesppeare Companion
The Shakespeare Miscellany by David Crystal & Ben Crystal www.shakespearesmiscellany.com/
A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes by Charles Elme Francatelli - Late Maitre D'Hotel and chief cook to Her Majesty the Queen Victoria

Sunday, 1 March 2009

City Of London.

City of London School
City of London
Yesterday, after I was told by my son's foster mother that my son's application, to enter St. Judes Church of England primary school, had been submitted. I asked her to enquire about a place for my son at 'City of London School' for Boys www.clsb.org.uk/
I am pleased that I will be attending Radar’s http://www.radar.org.uk Leadership Networking Day on 19th March at the Irish Centre, Hammersmith in West London.
I will also be returning to Scotland, again. Edinburgh, this time, for the following course:

Making Sense of Voices
How to make sense of voices in relation to life history and how to talk with voices in order to improve the relationship between voice hearer and voices
Facilitated by Internationally acclaimed Psychiatrist Dr Dirk Corstens
Edinburgh 20th April 2009 - London 21st April 2009 9.30am -4.00pm
Statutory sector £75 - Voluntary sector £60 - Unwaged & Family members £40

Those who strive to “establish the correct teaching for the peace of the land” as taught by Nichiren Daishonin and achieve kosen-rufu will no doubt face obstacles and hardships. As the Daishonin writes: “Without tribulation there would be no votary of the Lotus Sutra” (WND-1, 33). The Daishonin teaches that the world is ruled by the devil king of the sixth heaven. The term “devil” indicates the negative functions of life that cause unhappiness and misfortune. Discrimination, domination, the desire to harm and kill—all these are due to the devilish functions operating within the human heart and mind.

Buddhism teaches that the origin of these devilish functions is the fundamental darkness or ignorance residing at the very foundation of life. The life-state of the Buddha is the key to overcoming this ignorance or darkness. Kosen-rufu is the struggle to awaken the life-state of Buddhahood in all people and vanquish the darkness and ignorance that is the root of all unhappiness. Because of that, wherever Kosen-rufu is advancing, there is a tremendous struggle going on between the Buddha and devilish functions, which appears in the form of persecutions of those who uphold and spread the Mystic Law. (NL No. 7686 Jan 14 2009)

UK Pride and other SGI LGBT Events 2009

Date
Event

March
8
Student Pride (Brighton)

April / May
?
Absolute Freedom Kick-off mtg

May
15-18
SGI-USA LGBT Training Course

23-25
Birmingham

June
6
Oxford

27
Pride Scotia (Edinburgh)

July
4
London

11
Bourne Free (Bournemouth)

16-19
SGI-Germany LGBT Training Course

18
Thanet (Kent)

August
1
Brighton and Hove

2
Leeds

8
Cornwall (Truro)

15
UK Black (London)

29
Cardiff

29-31
Manchester

September
12
Reading

27
Intro to Buddhism mtg – Ldn

December
1
World AIDS Day

Dates to be decided

Belfast


Northern (Newcastle)

European Pride events with a possible SGI presence
6 June
Zurich – Europride (Switzerland)

13 June
Genoa (Italy national pride)

19 June
Berlin (Germany)

27 June
Paris (France)

4 July
Madrid (Spain)

1 August
Amsterdam (Holland)

8 August
Reykjavik (Iceland)