15-06-2024, 09:15 AM
And a few antique buttons?
I must confess I reach for my embroidered denim jacket far more often than the untouched one - which is currently hanging on the wardrobe door as I decide between donating it, or embellishing it...
Sold a set of books yesterday! Bit of a shock seeing sales on TM are abysmal at the moment, but seems I came across another Nick Bantock fan - in Wellington - so nice to know my beloved set of signed first editions will be going to an appreciative home. Almost makes up for the rotten con artist who ripped me off a treat a week or so back with a very carefully photographed piece that arrived damaged and dirty. Still, those fools are few and far between, and karma will deal, and she's getting that parcel back this week along with some very straightforward feedback. Be interesting to see if she refunds, lol...
During the rain yesterday as I knitted I came across a youtube piece from a UK brain surgeon who was talking about the latest research on the way the brain operates in the dream state which was utterly fascinating. He also spoke about how they have measured the electrical activity of the brain at the end of life which seems to indicate that in those last few minutes after the heart stops, the final beat pushes blood up the carotids to the brain and there is a burst of electrical action that lasts a full minute or two. He suggests that explains the oft reported 'life flashes before my eyes' experience of near death episodes, and further, he suggests we have the evolved comfort and peace of the dream state at those last moments - which reflects my experience of being with dying loved ones. A rather lovely thought, that we do not end, we simply sink into an endless dream. Anyway, I have reserved his latest book, so will see if he writes as well as he speaks.
Stunning looking man too, which doesn't hurt, lol... Rahul Jandial if anyone is interested.
I must confess I reach for my embroidered denim jacket far more often than the untouched one - which is currently hanging on the wardrobe door as I decide between donating it, or embellishing it...
Sold a set of books yesterday! Bit of a shock seeing sales on TM are abysmal at the moment, but seems I came across another Nick Bantock fan - in Wellington - so nice to know my beloved set of signed first editions will be going to an appreciative home. Almost makes up for the rotten con artist who ripped me off a treat a week or so back with a very carefully photographed piece that arrived damaged and dirty. Still, those fools are few and far between, and karma will deal, and she's getting that parcel back this week along with some very straightforward feedback. Be interesting to see if she refunds, lol...
During the rain yesterday as I knitted I came across a youtube piece from a UK brain surgeon who was talking about the latest research on the way the brain operates in the dream state which was utterly fascinating. He also spoke about how they have measured the electrical activity of the brain at the end of life which seems to indicate that in those last few minutes after the heart stops, the final beat pushes blood up the carotids to the brain and there is a burst of electrical action that lasts a full minute or two. He suggests that explains the oft reported 'life flashes before my eyes' experience of near death episodes, and further, he suggests we have the evolved comfort and peace of the dream state at those last moments - which reflects my experience of being with dying loved ones. A rather lovely thought, that we do not end, we simply sink into an endless dream. Anyway, I have reserved his latest book, so will see if he writes as well as he speaks.
Stunning looking man too, which doesn't hurt, lol... Rahul Jandial if anyone is interested.