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Not Capturing the Moment | Outside Air

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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. {Henry David Thoreau}. Not Capturing the Moment. June 15, 2015. Sometimes I like thinking back to the days when a phone was just a phone and I wasn’t always carrying it around with me scrolling through feeds like a media addict. Sometimes I get this image in my head of myself carrying around a corded phone and constantly looking at it to see if anyone is going to call me—it makes me laugh ;]. But I’ve realized something in the ...

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Breast is Breast – how2man

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June 19, 2015. June 19, 2015. I saw a relatively overweight man in the park yesterday. He was sunbathing with is top off and his breasts were bigger than my wife’s (sorry sweetheart, but they were). Nobody cared. Nobody asked him to put them away. Nobody took photos. There was the odd group of NEDs (Non Educated Delinquents for those that don’t know the phrase), who nudged each other and smirked. Now had he been female, it would have been different. Why? My wife tried hard to breast feed our first boy, b...

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Don’t drink the water, unless you know the source. – how2man

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Don’t drink the water, unless you know the source. June 15, 2015. June 15, 2015. Sometimes I think back to growing up and my lack of father figure and wonder if I would be different if he was around. The answer is ‘probably quite a bit’. The next question then is, in what way, and good or bad? She also made sure I had boys things to play with, guns, action man, football, cars etc. But without some “unapproved” input, I doubt I would’ve been the same. Also, around the same time, I started training martial...

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Something to fear more than fear? – how2man

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Something to fear more than fear? June 10, 2015. June 10, 2015. Probably one of the most overly used saying I hear a lot is “There’s nothing to fear but fear itself”. I don’t agree. When Franklin D Roosevelt said those words (or something very similar), I don’t think he meant it to be taken literally. My eldest boy had his first Parkour (free running) lesson last night:. On the way there. C: “I’m so excited”. Me: “Oh good, I’m glad you’re looking forward to it”. However, once I started training martial a...

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Austerity measures, but not up. – how2man

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Austerity measures, but not up. July 6, 2015. As a business owner, I voted in the total opposite direction to what you would expect in the last British election. I feel sorry for Greece and its people at the minute. The world has never been so well connected in its history. But still, every country is very insular. Europe isn’t this great big “American wannabe”. How can it be? So yes, business is tough and probably will be for a while. But I know I’ve done the right thing for the ones that foll...Leave a...

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July 2015 – how2man

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Some peace of mind. July 7, 2015. July 7, 2015. Some peace of mind. You probably can’t tell that I’ve travelled to hell. And the face at the door didn’t know me too well. There’s some people I’ve met that haven’t gotten there yet. But they are heading there with their souls I would bet. Oh the things they have done, not a one can say none. Of the things I have done to someone are undone. So they’ll kneel and they’ll pray to make themselves feel okay. But their words fall on empty wood stalls by the way.

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Racism is a terrible ism – how2man

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Racism is a terrible ism. June 25, 2015. June 25, 2015. Racism is one of the many “isms” we humans suffer. It’s always struck me as strange that you can hate somebody based on the colour of their skin. I mean, why? Where’s the logic. On any given day I can go to town and see fifty girls who’ve been on sunbeds to give themselves darker skin. Are they treated differently for it? No, they actually catch the eyes of more guys than the pale ones (except me, I like them pale and interesting). Zoom out a bit mo...

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June 2015 – how2man

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A Poem to a lost childhood. June 30, 2015. June 30, 2015. A mother looks into the eyes of the child she once knew. She said “Tell me son where have you been and what did you do? He says “Mother, you couldn’t understand if you tried”. So she puts her hand upon him and cries. 8220;Tell me son what do you mean? He says “We’ll never know what could have been”. A lover sits upon his bed with a tear on her face. She says “Will we just end, in this Godforsaken place? And she puts her head upon him and cries.

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Meet your wife and write a poem. – how2man

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Meet your wife and write a poem. June 8, 2015. June 8, 2015. I’ve touched on this briefly in another post. But I thought I’d go into it in a bit more detail. We worked in the same company when we first met, only 220 miles apart (have I mentioned I’m Scottish? Don’t think I have, anyway, I am). I was sitting at my desk doing the usual (not a lot), and a gentlemen came up beside me to introduce himself and his colleague. I stood up to shake their hands then clapped eyes on his colleague. Wow! To this day, ...