Senses working overtime #401

1 Predictions for 2023

2 Inflection points

Words and phrases to ban in 2023.

Yes!

3 Passive aggressive phrases to avoid in 2023

4 The inside story of the Queen's final day

5 Twenty albums to look for in 2023

Overtime: The coolest images of space from 2022

Senses working overtime #400

1 Road trip!

The Bixby Bridge, Big Sur

This week's edition collects some images from our road trip from Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California to Monterey, California via the coastal highway.

2 Bixby Bridge views

3 The Madonna Inn, San Luis Obispo

4 Solvang

5 Big Sur Roadhouse

Overtime: Breakfast at Rae's Diner, Santa Monica

Senses working overtime #399

The combination of time spent in London, Bury, and Los Angeles during this week provided a real contrast in sensual stimuli.

Here's a short selection...

1  Palisades Park and Santa Monica beach

Jacky, Wozza, Fanfa and Drew.

2 Santa Monica

Santa Monica dinosaur fountain

3  Amoeba Music

4  Barrington Avenue and Sunset Boulevard walk

Outside 'The Ugly House'

5  Last fish and chips and mushy peas before USA

At The Three Magpies before flying to LA

Overtime:  Buckingham Palace and Caffe Nero (Upper Street)

Upper Street's home away from home - Caffe Nero.

Senses working overtime #398

UK tour

This week is devoted to glimpses of our sensual delights over the last week or so as we trekked around before seeing Irene and Christine - taking in Tintagel Castle, Blenheim Palace, amid visits to Appledore, Oxford, Bury, and south Wales.

1 Clouds and snow

On the way from London to Devon

2 Appledore

Brekkie at the Royal George 

3 Blenheim Palace

4 Burr's Country Park (Bury)

Peel monument from Burr's

5 Tintagel Castle

Overtime: Irene and Christine

Irene (101), Christine and me

Senses working overtime #397

1 Confessions of a celebrity ghost-writer

2 The best way to wash your face is actually a 200 year old method

3 Why The White Lotus is the best TV show of 2022

4 This is how often you should wash your bed sheets

5 The linguistics of swearing

Overtime: Contronyms  (words that are their own antonyms)

Left can mean either remaining or departed. If the gentlemen have withdrawn to the drawing room for after-dinner cigars, who’s left? (The gentlemen have left and the ladies are left.)

Senses working overtime #396

1 Hoping you have a jazzy Charlie Brown Christmas

2 Why It Took So Long for James Cameron to Make Avatar: The Way of Water

3 The Manson girls

4 What's behind the exploding prices for pro sports franchises

5 To tell someone they are wrong, first tell them they are right.

Overtime: Persian adage - This too shall pass.

Senses working overtime #395

1 The best TV theme songs

2 The one sentence that will make you are a more effective speaker

3 The best way to pack your suitcase

4 Best of pocket 2022

5 Time for Christmas Favourites again!

Overtime: 

“In an age of speed, I began to think, nothing could be more invigorating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.”

Pico Iyer