OCTOBER 2005

Some time ago, I mentioned a change in my timetable following retirement. I've also noticed altered reading habits: am I alone in this? The novels and biographies I keenly devoured at one time have been replaced by books which can safely be put down after reference or reading a chapter. Is this a lack of long term concentration denoting the approach of mental impairment? I hope not.
My recent literary purchases include examples of this trend - one is of computer tricks and techniques. Another explains how to do a variety of things, such as Hold a Crocodile, Leave the Earth, Get an Audience with the Pope, Avoid Nightmares, and Play the Bagpipes, amongst other subjects
Still on books, the next meeting of the Norwich & District Branch of Diabetes UK will be @ 7.30 pm on Monday, October 3rd at the Vauxhall Centre, Norwich when there will be a talk, "From Misfortune to Misfortune to Fortune", by Kip Bertram. Raffle & refreshments - friends welcome, wheelchair friendly. For further information, please contact Maggie Flatman, chairman, on 01603 783091.
This month's quotations are about knowledge and writing:-
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“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.“ - Benjamin Franklin
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“It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.” - John Wooden
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“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.” - Daniel J. Boorstin
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"Learn as if you were to live forever, live as if you were to die tomorrow." - Mahatma Gandhi
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"Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble." - French Proverb
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"If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, like Shakespeare wrote poetry, like Beethoven composed music; sweep streets so well that all the host of Heaven and Earth will have to pause and say, Here lived a great sweeper, who swept his job well." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Best wishes - be happy