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Edward Bryans

Commentaries on Life

  • Art
    • ART: What the senses receive and how the mind interprets its responses through a very personal expression. Water Art … a very different form of expression.
    • Charles Church – Horses, Hounds and Landscapes – Artists whom I know.
    • Dame Elisabeth Frink – Artists I have known.
    • Charlie Mackesy – so much more than an artist – but a damned good artist!
  • Funny
    • Eating Bricks? I know we need our roughage but …
    • Twitter seems to have its moments … here are some funny Tweets
    • Weekend Frivolity – let’s see if we can bring a smile to your face!
    • How clever are you? Friday afternoon Mindbenders
    • Grammar Police Correcting Graffiti in a country of paradoxes: Quito, Ecuador
    • Intense Photoshop battle started by …Bird Watching in South Africa
    • Millennials and Dopamine … wow …
    • How clever You?
    • Time for a Larf – Christmas 2016
    • Christmas Laughs
    • When you get to the Pearly Gates …
    • I found a rat in the bathroom today, true story
    • Star Wars … fetch!
  • Travel
    • Ecuador, My Home for the past Four and a Half Years. Part 3 of 3 – Wildlife and some Wild Life.
    • Ecuador, My Home for the past Four and a Half Years. Part 2 of 3 – River Journeys, Poverty and Haciendas.
    • Ecuador, My Home for the past Four and a Half Years. Part 1 of 3 – Gold Mining on the Colombian Border.
    • Extraordinary Deserted Places 6. The Initiation Wells in Sintra, Portugal
    • Extraordinary Deserted Places 5 – Shengshan Island, China. Is this what they call Ivy league?
    • Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China – Adrenalin Central – Amazing Images, accompanied by Nina Simone’s Sinnerman (Felix Da Housecats Heavenly House Mix)
    • Extraordinary Deserted Places 4 – Buzludzha Monument, Bulgaria – Accompanied by David Bowie’s Space Oddity
    • Deserted Places 3 – Hotel del Salto, Bogota, Colombia – Accompanied by Everybody Hurts, R.E.M.
    • Deserted Places 2 – The Valley of the Mills, Sorrento, Italy
    • Extraordinary Deserted Places – Angkor Wat – Music by Deep Forest
    • Gold Safari, you find it, you keep it! An Ecuadorian Adventure.
    • Less than Lethal Weapons and How to defend yourself when threatened.
    • Amazing Amazonian Experience, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador
  • Jargon Busters
    • Jargon Busters 7 – DILLIGAF
    • Jargon Busters 6 – TIL
    • Jargon Busters 5 – TIR
    • Jargon Busters 4 – PPAP (Social Media Tagging)
    • Jargon Busters 3 – Social Media Tagging
    • Jargon Busters 2 – Robin Williams explains
    • Jargon Busters 1 – Social Media can leave people feeling left out
  • History
    • Libraries, Repositories of Learning. They are also Structures of Beauty.
    • Shaking Hands, Bowing, Curtsying, Saluting, The Clinking of Glasses and Other Greetings.
    • The Great Disappointment of 1844. The Birth of Fractionalisation of the Christian Faith.
  • Music
    • Misheard Lyrics – some of these are just Hysterical.
    • What are Your Favourite Lyrics?
    • Sad News Today of the Passing of Chuck Berry.
    • Blockchain technology offers solutions to reward artists for content, especially musicians.
    • PUNK, 40 years young and so much more than Punk Rock, though the music is great!
  • News
    • President Assad of Syria speaks to the Press. A Mass-Murderer? You decide!
    • Is Trump Balancing his Interests Against Ethics? Iraq is off the Travel Ban List. Should it be? Where is Saudi Arabia?
    • After Aleppo; what now for the innocents? Their City and their Lives lie in piles of Blasted Rubble.
    • Fukushima – Forgotten News – What a Nightmare.
    • Ecuador’s Presidential Elections. It goes to a run-off … just!
    • SOUTH SUDAN – Forgotten News which continues even when the Media look away.
    • Central African Republic – The Forgotten News which does not stop when the Media looks away.
    • Tulsi Gabbard, the kind of US Politician whom the World needs, speaking out against the war on Syria
    • Alcohol Ban – “La Ley Seca” – Ecuador’s National Elections
    • Democratic leaders are not accepting Democratic Results. Blair blots his Copybook.
    • Trump’s visa/entry ban on the un-Magnificent Seven – notable for what it does not include, Saudi Arabia.
    • The Ease of Islam as a villain
    • The Syria Crisis and how Amnesty International seems to have thrown fuel on the fire.
    • Syria. US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, in full knowledge of US collusion with Al-Qaeda/Nusra Front, calls to end funding/arming terrorists.
    • Gold Theft in New York – Ecuadorian Man Arrested – Funniest crime for ages
    • Should George Soros be tried for War Crimes?
    • French Presidential Elections -Could this election bring about the fragmentation of Europe and jeopardise the Euro?
    • Queen Elizabeth II – the definition of service or an expensive bauble?
    • Donald Trump vs John Lewis
    • Syria: after Aleppo – 48 Dead after Azaz Blast; Water Contamination, affecting 5.5 million in Damascus
    • US Healthcare – Obamacare – an extremely contentious subject!
    • Huge Bomb Blast Today in East Aleppo – Bombs and bullets do not stop for Christmas – 24th December 2016
    • Aleppo News December 27th & 28th 2016
  • News Commentaries
    • Assange and the current concerns (rightly and understandably) as to his location and health
    • Is Assange hurting the credibility of his own success?
    • Julian Assange, hero and/or villain?
  • News Sources
    • Fake News: How the BBC is culpable in failing its standards.
    • Social Media – What is the Best Strategy For YOU?
    • Trusted news sources – who? what? where? why? how?
    • News or Fake news – what sells and what is bought?
    • Vanessa Beeley – a Valiant Crusader for Truth in East Aleppo
    • And here is the news ….Allegedly
  • Personal
    • DAWN – the forthcoming IPFS Blockchain medium
    • EQ and IQ; What Are They? Do They Matter? Can You Improve Them?
    • Peccavi and the Legend of Sindh. General Sir Charles Napier 1842, India. A Fun Slice of History and its recording.
    • Gold, why is it languishing? Upside and downside, a commentary.
    • Good posts interfaced: Co. Start-up mistakes by @dragosroua and The Value of Knowledge by @thewisesloth
    • Replacement
    • TRUST, is this an outmoded concept or should we encourage ourselves and others to generate and engender it?
    • Love in a Culture of Hate and what to give this Christmas
    • 2017 – Real Virtuality or Virtual Reality? Captain Kirk to you: ‘You have the con, out.”
    • Replies, like receiving a proper letter!
    • Customer Service – a lesson in life!
    • A Song for Willow, my daughter
    • Will venting one’s spleen change the outcome of a decision made?
    • Self-grilling … dangerous but cathartic! [Part 1]
    • Self-Grilling – dangerous but cathartic [Part 2]
  • Photography
    • Artists I have known: PERRY OGDEN. Part Three of Three. PORTRAITS.
    • Artists I have known: PERRY OGDEN. Part Two of Three. FASHION.
    • PERRY OGDEN: Master of the Lens. Part One of Three.
    • Underwater Photography 3 – The very weird and the even weirder of the Oceans
    • Underwater Photographs of People … Beautiful Images and Wonderful Imagination.
    • Underwater Photography 5: Matty Smith, Winner of this Year’s Highest Award
    • Hacienda Cusin – an old Farm House and a Monastery – beautiful rambling gardens.
    • Underwater Photography 4 – Troy Mayne – Multi-International Award Winner
    • Weird and weirder and downright comical – creatures which inhabit the Oceans.
    • Underwater Photography 2 – Lorenzo Terraneo – Wonderful Photographer with a few words of caution about eating fish.
    • Underwater Photography 1 – Nudibranchs – I never knew that slugs could be so beautiful!
    • The Ultimate Bird’s Eye View 2
    • The Ultimate Bird’s Eye View – Magnificent Images from Drones
    • Cotopaxi – a live volcano in Ecuador
    • Hummingbirds will drive you mad!
  • Planet Conscious and Planet Wonderful
    • Wonders of the Ocean
    • Inspirational Reunion between a Gorilla and a Girl. Conservation Good News Story
    • Fukushima – Forgotten News – What a Nightmare.
    • Underwater Photography 4 – Troy Mayne – Multi-International Award Winner
    • Hawaii – Fantastic Video and Stills of Volcanic Eruptions
    • Harvesting Solar Energy from Roads in France
    • Underwater Photography 2 – Lorenzo Terraneo – Wonderful Photographer with a few words of caution about eating fish.
    • Underwater Photography 1 – Nudibranchs – Beautiful Slugs!
    • Big dogs – beautiful images – but threatened.
    • Fresh Water – and why Fracking will put us in the Darwin Awards – as a Species
    • Unborn baby outside the womb – extraordinary!
  • Short Stories
    • A 100 Word Ode to Gene Wilder
    • 100 Word Story Contest. The Winners – “Sensation”. Sensational Reading!
    • Darwin’s Bears. An allegorical tale of great brevity.
    • Privacy
    • I walked outside today and found I had a flat tyre. A short story.
  • Sport
    • Red Rum, still the most famous horse in the UK, 40 years later.
    • AP McCoy – barely known outside the UK – the best sportsman in the world ever?
    • Tom Brady – certainly not the greatest sportsman of all time … but I would suggest the greatest WINNER
    • Tiger, Tiger, burning bright …
    • Which is the Best Team – in any Sport – in the World?
  • Steemit Commentaries
    • Replies, like receiving a proper letter!
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  • Home: Hello and the warmest of welcomes!
  • Misheard Lyrics – some of these are just Hysterical.

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