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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Roger Kettle on October 08, 2025, 08:12:23 PM
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All going well, next year I will reach the age of 75. Three quarters of a century. As a famous comedian once said, if I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have looked after myself better. Anyway, what better time for a bucket list. I have decided that my list will consist of things that I have absolutely no intention of doing. Sky-diving, para-gliding, wind-surfing...let's cut this short. I have no desire to do anything that has a hyphen in it. I will NOT be reading the entire works of Shakespeare. In fact, I won't be reading a single word of his. I know full well that he's regarded as a genius but, let's face it, he's no Barbara Cartland. I won't be visiting the pyramids. Okay, if they'd been built next to my local Co-op, I might have stopped for a look but I'm certainly not travelling 4.000 miles to get bitten by mosquitoes and fall off a camel. I have absolutely no desire to swim with dolphins. I don't trust them. I reckon half the so-called "shark attacks" are down to these smiley-faced sneaks. People see a fin and shout "Shark!". Dolphins are not only responsible but find the whole thing hilarious.
And then there's.....I won't go on. I could but I won't.
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ZERO added sugar. ZERO alcohol. ZERO processed food.
EVERY DAY: nuts, berries, fruit, cruciferous vegetables, other vegetables, ground flax seeds, turmeric and other spices, beans, whole grains.
EXERCISE and STRETCHING.
Hug a tree every now and then.
You won't live forever but it will seem like it.
As for things to do, look up into the sky at the constellation of Orion, where you will see the star Betelgeuse. Born ten million years ago, and giving off every second 100,000 times the energy of our sun, Betelgeuse will - tomorrow or some time in 10,000 years - come to the end of its life, and will go supernova. When it does, it will give off in ten seconds far more energy than it ever did during its lifetime. You'll certainly notice the difference in the night sky.
The supernova happens because during the last day of its life, Betelgeuse fuses some of its heavier elements into a gravity-crushed ball of iron about the size of our Earth but heavier than our own sun. This ball of iron then collapses under gravity. In the next four-thousandths of a second, the iron accelerates inwards to a quarter the speed of light (168 million miles per hour). In the one thousandth of a second after that, it is decelerated to a standstill.
So, eat well, get out, get running, and look at the stars.
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A good place to start is to buy a really NICE bucket, perhaps stainless steel.
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During the war, my dad climbed up a pyramid. In those days they had a pole on the top to show the original height. He shimmied up that and hammered a British penny in the top with the butt of his gun.