Senses working overtime #567

1 Word of the week: Forward

2 Watching: Formula 1 - Drive to Survive Season 8

Season 8 delivers the same high octane drama of the previous seasons. Throw in a smattering of super models, petulant drivers, control freaks and it's a crazy, fascinating world. My favourite couple is Toto and Susie Wolff. A great combo!

3 Reading: Eleven Minutes - Paulo Coelho

4 Listening: The Mutton Birds - Envy of Angels

Chock full of great songs that one and, be warned, I can't get the earworm She's Been Talking out of my head.

5 Listening: New Wander to Wozza's Music Club playlists 

Weather with you continues and is joined by WTWMC #6 (2026) tracks our Album of the Week selections.

Overtime: Helen Hayes

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

Senses working overtime #548

1 Cruisey work week

Photo by Jairph on Unsplash

2 Watched: Hunted season 7 (I think) TV on Demand

3 Listened to: Ringo Starr albums

Up to Starr in the Goo Goo G'Joob countdown. Try this live album - Live at Soundstage - on for size.

4 Still reading: Our Mutual Friend and Never (Rick Astley)

5 Listening: WTWMC - Tragically unhip

Overtime: Paulo Coelho

"You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it."

Senses working overtime 473

1 Autumn at Maple Grove

Jerry and Gracie, Maple Grove, June first, 2024.

2 Reading: Patti Smith - Devotion

3 Reading: Paulo Coelho - Maktub

Loving this book. 

This resonated this week: Everything always turns out well in the end. If things aren't going well, that's because you haven't yet reached the end.

4 Listening: Donovan - The Hurdy Gurdy Man

From 1968 and tinged with Rishikesh and Fabs dust. Jennifer Juniper sums up that heady mix well.

5 Watching: Bodkin

Overtime: Seth Godin

The third impossibility

The first was radio and television. Humans around the world spending a significant portion of their waking hours consuming audio and video recordings of other people.

The second was the internet. Five to ten hours a day interacting, in real time, with other people, many of them strangers.

And the third is AI. We’re about to spend almost all of our time interacting with software that appears to have an understanding of us and the world around us. All the time, in real time.

Senses working overtime #470

1 Autumn at Maple grove

Yes, a return to that tree at Maple Grove. Leaves are clinging on.

2 Reading: Maktub - Paulo Coelho

I'm trying not to read this too quickly. A couple of pages a day is enough - otherwise I won't digest the messages and I need to savor the experience.

3 Reading: Degrees Of Separation - Laurence Fearnley

After taking ages to read Bleak House and Scattershot, I'm whizzing through two books too quickly.  

4 Listening: All About Me - Mel Brooks

I am still enjoying listening to this audiobook on my daily commute. Mel Brooks! What a guy!

5 Watching: All Quiet On The Western Front (2022 German version)

I have had this on my Netflix list for ages and we plumped for it last night. I'm usually not keen on foreign language films dubbed into English (I'd prefer to watch it in the original language with sub-titles, but I knew I'd be outvoted). Didn't matter too much with this visceral portrayal of a tragic story. Haunting is an overused adjective, but it sums up the experience of watching this film.

Overtime: 

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Voltaire.