The first hints of yellow are showing on my first sunflower, I’ve tried before but slugs and positioning have hampered my efforts. Not this time, two more appear to have made it, so it’s looking good 💛🌻

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The first hints of yellow are showing on my first sunflower, I’ve tried before but slugs and positioning have hampered my efforts. Not this time, two more appear to have made it, so it’s looking good 💛🌻

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I have seen talk of what some people have dubbed ‘quiet quitting’ where in some weird silent protest, you stop being productive at work and instead become a dead weight, because you ‘don’t like’ it. Believing in some way it shows up the employer or the workplace as having the issue. And maybe there are issues that need to be dealt with, but not quite sure how not working or communicating said issues is a positive thing.
Maybe I have missed a point or something, but it just sounds like a very childish thing to do, and as well as wasting time and resources for your employer, you are actually wasting your own time and selling yourself short. I have had many jobs, and have left many jobs. I may not have left right away when I knew it wasn’t for me, but I sure as shit didn’t drag everyone else down with me, which is what this sounds like to me.
Instead I took action to either change what I didn’t like about my workplace, management or role, or left to go and work hard somewhere else. It was that simple and covered in my piece Work ethic and employment. Refusing to lower my standards for someone else, rather just accepting that I was no longer of use where I was. Played out in real time in one particular job where the manager was useless, the staff knew it and we were failing as an office because of it, so I reported them. In the meeting to discuss it (I was 21 at the time), the area manager said they knew they knew the manager was crap, but good managers don’t grow on trees, I should lower my standards. And being honest, it was probably one of the best things he could have said, because it shocked me slightly that anyone would expect me to lower my standards to fit a failing system, and it also clearly showed me I was working with the wrong people. When something has run its course important to know when Walking Away is appropriate. By staying and just demotivating yourself, when you could be getting on with that you could or should be doing, seems very counter productive. To me anyway.
I also developed a certain mindset rather early on, that when I quit something it wasn’t a failure on my part, it was a move to stop wasting time and took me a step closer to what I was meant to be doing, whatever that was. It became a positive thing, although that didn’t mean I just went and quit at the drop of a hat, but my length of time at jobs became less and less throughout my 20’s as my confidence, skills and ability developed further. I realised I wouldn’t get what I was seeking from a workplace, or a boss, so at 27 started my own business in admin and finance, making sure I could work to my standard and level of professionalism. If I had lowered my standard, or reduced my interests because of someone else demotivaing me (and there have been many who could have), I quite probably wouldn’t have made it this far, still running my business. And setting up another one a few later later for all my creative endeavours.
Quiet quitting to me, means quitting on yourself, but by using someone else as way of an excuse. Take ownership of your own situation, recognise what it is you don’t like about it, or the person/people causing it, and work to change it, or remove yourself from it. Don’t sink to their level as they say, use it to realise you are not like them.
There are of course, a few people, who are not quiet quitters at all through demotivation, they are simply just lazy and don’t pull their weight, and never did. instead getting their feet under the table and doing as little as possible to get by, and get paid. Furlough really let those people shine through, but looks like many are here to stay, for a short while anyway. There will be many job losses coming over the coming months if the ridiculous and catastrophic energy debacle is allowed to continue. Where only supermarkets and homes will have power, and everything else will be closed or running on rations. Sounds fun doesn’t it? I do understand that now we have a different landscape for work and employment dawning, you can’t train or plan properly anymore and I commend any small businesses that make it through, whatever your attitude. And I don’t blame poeple for not really feeling like their heart is in it anymore, it’s been metaphorically ripped out of their chest in some cases, so being demotivated is a real problem right now, and not through laziness, but sheer worry.
So, we really need people to be thinking about making things work and actually doing it, rather than putting your feet up, switching off and thinking someone else is going to do it for you and not even caring if it works or not. This is your life, take control and take part while you still can…

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Picked some elderberries while out walking and turned them into cordial (a few blackberries may have found their way in as well).




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Not to be confused with The Before Time 😉 article, which is of a more recent past. This one goes back a bit further, and concerns electricity, high prices, bills and the current orchestrated ‘cost of living crisis’ which looms over the country. From one ’emergency’ to another, eh? Don’t get me wrong, we are in an emergency, just not the one they say we are, which is neatly distracting everyone from what they are up to and have done being the cause of the problem.
While paying attention over the years, I noted that they seemed pretty keen on blocking up old fireplaces, and building new houses without them. I thought then it seemed folly, what if there was a grid issue, or we couldn’t produce electricity for whatever reason? I grew up without central heating as a constant, and we relied sometimes on an open fire, or bottled gas heaters when we didn’t have it, so it seemed an obvious thing to keep, from my point of view. As a manual back-up for a weak, overloaded system which at some point would surely fail, or be restricted. And here we are, and not quite by accident I must say. There is a reason they took away people’s ability to heat their own homes, and are looking to impose further regulations and restrictions on wood burners and fires. Do you see the pattern yet?
So, let’s go back to the not-too-distant past, where we didn’t have electricity running freely into every home and being available ‘at the flick of a switch’. Everything still worked, albeit by different means and at a different pace, but we had shops, pubs and inns, hotels, houses, industry and commerce. So, I find it quite strange how suddenly we are being told, and quite incorrectly I might add, that we must cut back, and not have enough power or fuel to provide heat, or enough to grow food or transport. All those things revolving around their quota of ‘carbon output’. Which they invented and decided the scale for by the way, fixing the system to their own advantage as has been done for a rather long time. So, how is it, that for many centuries, without constant electricity and invention of all these electrical gadgets and conveniences, did people manage to sustain themselves? How did villages, towns and cities thrive and go on to build huge empires? Quite the mystery.
Yet now we have this wonderful thing called ‘electricity’, we are going down the pan, fighting amongst ourselves repeatedly and in more elaborate ways, and using it to enslave humanity within a digital prison. Doesn’t sound very advanced to me, just presenting the illusion of being so, to trick people into thinking because it is digital and technological, that it must be progressive. When clearly it is not so. It’s being used for destructive purposes and not for advancement at all, instead it is being used for enslavement. Electricity was our first tether, seemingly followed by the wires, cables, phones etc. Now we have wireless we are led to believe that electricity is actually now just all around us, without the need for cables and wires at all, making it seem more open. Still tethered though. But to them, they who provide the ‘access’ to it, gatekeep it. Charge you for it, bind you to it. They want everything dependent on it, in their world you will need it to have food, shelter, employment, friends and generally what they call a life.
But in reality, you don’t need it for any of those things, they can all be achieved through manual ways and means. It’s just ‘easier’ and more ‘convenient’ to use electrical machinery and systems. Or at least it was. The goalposts have changed, dramatically, and so must our thinking towards it. What they show as the future is rather sterile, ordered and emotionless, more like a simulation of a life, but without something very important. Reality. Which sounds odd I know; how could you possibly have a life without it being reality? It seems you can, by way of their virtual augmented future plans, it’s easily done. But we have already started to slip towards it through living online, being heavily integrated with online systems and procedures already. It’s an alternate reality being constructed around us, slowly and piece by piece. My article It was a piece at a time, shows how it can be done without people even noticing. So, by the time it switches, you know no different and accept the almost seamless slip from one reality into the next, as it seems somewhat familiar by now.
It does appear as though their entire future is based upon electricity and the need for it, without it none of their systems can work. The digital ID’s and scanned QR passes into every establishment wouldn’t work, the constant monitoring online and cameras, wouldn’t work, the ability to beam propaganda into every home and TV screen, wouldn’t work. Their omnipotent illusion just wouldn’t hold up without it, and the strange future they seem to have planned for countries by way of control through these mechanisms, seem wholly dependent on it. A key to their success perhaps, without it, the whole system fails. But society and people can thrive without it, and certainly can when it isn’t being used as a weapon against us. Power means power, literally.

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A reading of this article, and others can be found on my YouTube channel – here is this one…

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They may only be small, but still tasty and satisfying to have grown them. Spring onions and garlic.


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A very easy and tasty recipe 😋
Oven at 160 fan assisted (180 otherwise).
225g oats
150g butter
50g sugar
2 tbs golden syrup
20g dessicated coconut
140g chocolate (or however much suits)
Melt together the butter, sugar and syrup. Take off the heat. Stir the coconut through the oats, then add the mix to the metled butter and sugar. Line your tin and tip your oat mixture in and press down.
Bake for 15 mins. Allow to cool.

Melt the chocolate, pour and smooth over the top (or as a pattern). I added some edible gold glitter too for exta sparkle ✨️

Put in fridge and allow chocolate to set. Then cut into pieces and enjoy. I put them back in the fridge though as it’s quite warm still so they’ll melt if left out.

Very tasty, could do with a bit more coconut I think next time.
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Prepped for it, exposed to the ideas of it and potentially waiting for it. Gen X are the ones in line for this I feel, and possibly quite a few of Gen Y as well. And I wondered why. Why the need to have it as a mainstream idea, they are not without uses and this one has been carried forward like a security blanket. As if the idea of an outbreak leading to a zombie apocalypse has been so thought through and expected, that it can’t be let go of. And I’m sure the idea of it may seem silly to some who have not considered it, but to a certain group of people, or section of society should I say, I suspect they know precisely what I am talking about.
I have already given a brief overview of my thought in The Zombie Thing article, and touched upon the idea of the dead coming back in The dead walk the earth, but could it be that it was never meant to be that way. The idea of it was. People fear people, that’s no secret, but the idea of people being turned or mutating into the very worst version of a human is one of our deepest fears perhaps. The number of humanoid monsters and demons that are depicted in movies and films is like that for a reason, because we can identify with it, however horrible it is. And that is what makes it even scarier, seeing part of you in it, and it in you.
But what if they pre-program us to behave in that way when faced with what appears to be a similar scenario. There seems something familiar about it, so we do what makes us feel most comfortable in an uncomfortable situation. If we remember ‘seeing’ someone else react a certain way, even if only on the television, it is still a reference of experience, or at least our brain may treat it as such. Two things spring to mind, even if only a loose connection to what I mean. Firstly, a Derren Brown trick in one his tv series years ago, where a chap was playing a zombie video arcade game, and then he was ‘hypnotised’ by Derren to think it was happening. Add in some actors in make-up, lighting and everyone else playing along, and he thought it was real. Even without being hypnotised, just having actors, make up and scenery can do the job tricking our mind into believing that is our reality at that moment. We have two processing centres in our brain (they say), called primary processing centre, which obviously acts as the first response. Followed by the secondary processing system, which then takes over after the initial reaction to review it and make sure it was appropriate. But as we know, in a split-second life or death decision making situation, you will have to reply on the primary response centre. Whatever information it is accessing for that moment is what you will have to go with, so if you don’t have very good reasoning skills or reactions on the spot, you will fail. No pressure or anything.
The second thing that came to mind, in two parts, or rather two things rolled into one. A company started doing zombie simulation ‘games’. Where you had an area, actors pretending to be zombies, and the thrill ride of pretending the outbreak was happening but in safety and a big comfort zone. The other tie in being the film The Fifth Wave – whereby they fool children into thinking there are aliens/infected that have to be killed – but really they are other humans. We appear to have a bulk of crisis actors across the board today, and although it might seem far-fetched to think we could actually have a zombie virus outbreak. I sure as hell believe they could easily fake one. As has been done with so many other situation, scenarios and events.
But that does not mean to say the time was wasted or misspent, there may well be a time coming where we have to consider if our fellow man is really so, and that something dark does indeed lurk and dwell in this realm. You never know when there may come a time for all that training and thought to be put to good use…

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