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Edited by Gill Burrell, Saturday 26 June 2021 at 13:26


O give thanks unto the Lord  ; for He is good ; For his loving kindness endureth forever. Psalm 107:1


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Remembering!

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Edited by Gill Burrell, Monday 26 July 2021 at 18:29

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"Just remember once you're over the hill  you begin to pick up speed"


Arthur Schopenhauer.

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Solitude in the garden.

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Edited by Gill Burrell, Thursday 25 July 2024 at 14:17

It was a beautiful sunny day, EMA is submitted, OU studies now finished until October, absolutely nothing to do which is great,  just a form to fill in for next years course. Next term I hope to take the module 'Creativity in language"

There was hardly any parked cars now on the street. neighbours car had gone. I heard her earlier talking to her grandson, she was telling him to quickly bring his bucket and spade! 

I knew that  this was my best opportunity to get out there and into my back garden. I am lucky to be tucked away on the end house in the corner, surrounded by beautiful trees on both sides, it's a lovely garden.

Anyway,  today I could sit outside in peace, or potter about in the garden, sit on my bright green bench, barefoot, in my straw hat, long pink lace dress, drinking a cold glass of fizzy pink lemonade.

 I admired all the flowers that I had planted in pots earlier in the year, like the  primroses, marigolds, lobelias,begonias, pansies, pink and red geraniums and poppies

Red poppies

At the far side of the garden is a small wood (belonging to the retirement home) a group of trees bordering the back of our house.  The wood is sometimes home to owls and squirrels,  as well as lots of  different species of birds,  including wood pidgeons, thrushes, doves, blackbirds, sparrows, robins, blue tits, and chaffinches. In the mornings it comes alive with bird song and is bustling with activity.

 I sat and watched the comings and goings of the birds,  as they landed on the bird bath and bird table,  which I have situated on the far side of the garden, close to the fence beneath the trees.  I had a perfect view of the birds, but they couldn't see me, especially when I was sitting quite still on the bench and not moving ! 

 I quite liked being invisible!    

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How can we have a healthier world 🌏

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Edited by Gill Burrell, Friday 24 September 2021 at 00:46

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Pollution in towns and cities- solutions-
How can we reduce dangerous toxic emissions that are killing off the population?

Everyone knows petrol fumes cause air pollution,  🌫 as does the burning of fossil fuels which rise up into the 🌪atmosphere, filling it with dangerous toxins, which are bad for the health!
Electric cars 🚙are being introduced into towns also electric buses 🚎🚌and trams to combat this pollution problem. These vehicles use batteries and need to be charged, so more charging points 🔌will be required , to be put into  various places around the town.
Factories 🏭and local businesses also need to significantly cut or reduce emissions 🌪from fossil fuels 🌫and invest in renewable energies. This would greatly benefit the everyday lives of residents in terms of their health. Preventing conditions like asthma and other respiratory problems.

Landlords should make sure properties are using clean renewable energies. Solar, 🌞windpower 🌬or other 🌊 green energies. The Cutting of gas and fossil fuels to an absolute 🔥minimum from local residents, landlords and rented, housing associations.

Pedestrianisation of town centres with less traffic coming in and out of town, out of town car parks 🚙🚗(like park and ride scheme)  🚌to reduce traffic flow into town centres, with a total ban on traffic in some areas ⛔and more green spaces 🟩for citizens to relax in with cleaner air to breathe.

More outdoor areas🟩 for various 🎾⚽️sports🎳Exercise classes, 🏃‍♂️🧘‍♂️also 🎨Arts and crafts 🧶🧵group, 🎸🎙music and theatre in outdoor spaces.🎭 🖥This is all beneficial to the physical and mental health of its citizens. 🙂 It will also help people to socialise.(eventually)

Gardening projects for residents within town centre area with allotment 🟩🥦🥕projects also rooftop garden projects. These can be run as a peoples co-operative. Park projects using green spaces 🟩 for people to get exercise.

Cycle tracks to encourage people to take up cycling 🚵‍♀️and to keep cyclists safe and off the main roads.🛣

These are some of the targets post covid that local town councils should be now aiming for in an ideal world!

Will it ever happen I wonder?

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God is Love

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Edited by Gill Burrell, Tuesday 22 June 2021 at 08:54


Let us not love with just words or speech but with actions and in truth.
(1 John 3: 18)

      

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Vegetables are great!

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Edited by Gill Burrell, Thursday 10 June 2021 at 18:44

I am absolutely in favour of vegetables and there are some tasty recipes using plant based foods.🍅🥔🍆 🥗🥮🍜

When I first started out as a vegetarian I tended to eat the same things over again but I have since then been surprised by the variety and availability of other ingredients that can be found in shops, vegetable sellers or on- line. Alternative products like quorn or soya beans are good stand ins for meat. Quorn sausages are great for breakfast with eggs, baked beans and potatoes!

I am a big lover of vegetables 🥦🥒🍆🥑so thats a positive ! I used to hate carrots as a child but having had them presented in some very🥘🥬🧄🧅 interesting mouthwatering recipes so I was soon won over to the humble carrot and I now love eating 🥕🥕🥕 rainbow carrots too which are lovely!

It has been fun to experiment using lots of different types of vegetables to make some great recipes. For a time I went to the local vegetarian society where I learned to cook some vegetarian meals. After finding out about it I would definitely recommend a vegetarian diet. 

There are some great alternatives to meat eating like beans🧆🧆 ( I love beans!) which are great mashed together with other vegetables in pasties. Mashed and seasoned🧂🥫🍯 vegetables can be used as a good replacement for mince. I have also used this veggie mixture wrapped up in pancakes 🌮🥞🍲with spices or curry paste in, also topped with mashed potatoes for a shepherds pie. 🍲🧆 I 🧀🥔🧅
Really tasty! 

We just have to learn to be more adventurous and flexible  in our cooking. It doesn't have to be expensive you can obtain some cheap vegetables from some local vegetable growers, or from markets and farm shops

.1) I am vegetable lover first of all because I feel it is healthier to eat a vegetetable diet.🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

2) I like all animals and do not want them to suffer🐑🐄🐖🐇 

3) it is good for the planet 🌎and the environment so thats three very good reasons to be vegetarian. 🙂

     

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Les Lilas- the lilacs- french version

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Edited by Gill Burrell, Wednesday 17 November 2021 at 20:46

Lilas doux, Lilas intoxicant
Avec leurs couleurs vibrantes
éclatantes en mai
le printemps remplis de merveilles


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EMA- C'est fini! French version

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Edited by Gill Burrell, Tuesday 8 June 2021 at 18:24

Voila! C'est fin! J'ai enfin envoyé mon EMA.
c'était une course 🏃‍♀️ contre la montre ⏰J'ai mis un bon ordre 👩‍💻et dans une autre langue! 🇨🇵
Mais J'ai fait! Whew!
Demain pour fêter, je vais faire une belle longue marche a la compagne, et savourez un repas copieux dans un petit pub chaleureux!
je prendrai mon parapluie en cas de pluie! 🌤☂️
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Lilacs - English version

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Edited by Gill Burrell, Tuesday 8 June 2021 at 18:25


Sweet lilac, heavenly scent

Your colours are so bright

Bursting forth in May

What a springtime of delight !


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EMA - sent off! English version

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Edited by Gill Burrell, Thursday 10 June 2021 at 22:33

That's it I finally sent off my EMA!
It was a race 🏃‍♀️against time to get it finished with everything👩‍💻 in order very difficult especially in another language!🇨🇵
But I managed it. whew! This day I will celebrate by taking a nice long leisurely walk in the country and take my brolly just in case it rains. 🌂🌤

      

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Go In Peace

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Edited by Gill Burrell, Monday 6 December 2021 at 16:23


 He (Jesus) said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you."
John 20:21 ESV.

    

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Path of peace and love

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Edited by Gill Burrell, Thursday 24 June 2021 at 18:14


All Good comes from God

All Evil comes from satan

Gods plan is unfolding

It is up to us to use wisdom to discern 

And choose the path of Love and peace.

   

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EMA - on its way!

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Edited by Gill Burrell, Monday 9 August 2021 at 11:00

I have been typing up my essay today,  for the EMA assignment for module L222. It seems to be taking forever, for some reason. I expect it is (brain lag!) I am really racing against the deadline now! 


I am working at the computer. This morning as I am sat here , I have the window open, it is sunny but cold. I can hear all the birds singing in the trees behind our house. It is so calm and still, with just the sound of birdsong, and plenty of oxygen coming in from back garden, where there are lots of trees. 

No cars about in the street, except just a faint hum in the distance occasionally, otherwise it' svery quiet. I put all the phones on mute. Cat lying on setee behind me stretched out, paws up, looking like a long piece of elastic!  as I work hard! I am quickly typing away my assignment on the computer. 

I stop to refuel with plenty of coffee,  from a big coffee pot and eat a few chocolate biscuits. Just taking a break now, there is just one page left to type and a reference list to type. Hopefully I will be finished everything by Tuesday and can send it all off through the OU TMA submissions system. Trying not to panic but trying to keep calm and carry on!
     

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Reasons why I should go for that walk! ☔🌦

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Edited by Gill Burrell, Thursday 18 January 2024 at 19:35

(Apart from having to walk to do the shopping) Taking plenty of exercise is very good for the health and burns off calories and fat.

The more exercise  you do the better!


13 Reasons that have motivated me to leave my house go for a walk;

Good weather 🌞⛅🌤
not always possible, but if it doesn't rain it's ok🌫🌂🌄


To return library books📚 and borrow some more📚from library on the other side of village.


To pay bills💰at the post office 📮 (now inside newsagents!) And where I can use 🏧 £machine.


To take photographs outdoors which can later be sketched or made into collages or artworks .📷  🖼🌲



Being accompanied by a friend for purpose of socialising and walking together.

PUB        ⬅️🚶‍♀️🚶‍♀️
But beware you might end up in a cafe or pub! which would defeat the object of walking! 🍷🍷🍟🥘



To find out all the footpaths that lead back to the centre of town/village
          ⬅️ 🛤 🏘🛣➡️

              
The dog needs exercise or I could ask to walk a friends dog!🐕‍🦺🦮🐩


To walk to the outer limits of town or village.

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And buy organic veges on the way.


To walk to  buy something from the furthest away shop!🏠🏠🏠🏠🏠🏠🏪   🛍🛍


To collect some natural materials like bits of wood, flowers or twigs to decorate the home! And to go foraging!
🌿🍁🍂🍎🍃⚘🦋🍒⚱💐❌🐑 !


To go for a walk to the little church ⛪ to say a little prayer🙏 and commune🕯🕯with God  🎆

To go to the recycling point or collection bins to put something in to be recycled  🗑🗑🗑🍾🍶🧃🧂📑📃❌ 🛁


🌅 To walk to a good viewing point to see a sunset or sunrise🌄

Or walk to go 🦆🦅🕊 👀 birdwatching in the woods!

 
OR
I have eaten too much chocolate! so I MUST go immediately for a brisk walk around the block !

🍫🍬  =  🔴⚠️ = 🏃‍♀️

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Mes études!

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Edited by Gill Burrell, Friday 4 June 2021 at 03:17

Je suis contente avec mon effort que j'ai fait aujourdhui. J'ai essayé d'écrire une bonne composition. pour partie une, de la ema et aussi partie deux de la PDP
Je me sens fatiguée maintenant mais je suis heureuse. Prochainement , j"ai l'intention de taper mon essai sur mon ordinateur avec une liste de réferences.
Alors, c'est le plan! mais je peux l'ajuster un peu. Mais, jusqu'ici tout va bien. J'espère que tout le monde va bien et fait de bon progrès avec vos études. 🌺
Bonne continuation

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Keeping in good spirits

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Edited by Gill Burrell, Friday 11 June 2021 at 23:00

For all of us who love God ❤

" Since we live by the spirit, let us keep in step with the spirit"

(Galstions 5v 25)

Love, joy, peace,  forebearance, kindness, gentleness, having faith and self control.

(From the bible)


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Words of hope

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Edited by Gill Burrell, Friday 4 June 2021 at 03:15


Cast all your anxiety on him because he (God) cares for you.

(1 Peter 5 v 7)
From the Bible

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EMA Typing it up

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Edited by Gill Burrell, Friday 11 June 2021 at 23:00

This morning I went for a brisk walk around the village and along the footpath past the cemetery and around the park. Flowers looked sad and wilted in the cold wind! Did some shopping on the way back home. It was busy at the local supermarket as it usually is on friday morning.
It was very blustery and lots of low rain clouds in the sky. It had rained during the night and looked set to rain again throughout the day. What happened to spring ? it's more like winter!
I will be starting on the typing up of my EMA essays this afternoon. I have been up most of the night doing the final translation, so this gives me the whole weekend to type up the two essays (I am a very slow at typing!) feeling tired at the moment. Going to have a coffee ☕or two to keep me awake. Hopefully will get it finished before the deadline of Wednesday. Let's hope I don't get any interuptions and will be able to complete it before the deadline.


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Precarity- Sound familiar ???

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Edited by Gill Burrell, Tuesday 8 November 2022 at 19:35

French society has therefore lived through an apparent contradiction of, on the one hand, rapid technological development and increased consumerism and, on the other hand, deep social inequalities and the marginalisation of significant parts of the population. Many people’s lives are characterised by precarity, be this in employment, housing or access to essential services (and often all three), and arbitrary discrimination in these areas continues to be a fact of everyday life for millions. Certain measures have been taken by national and local authorities to address these issues but much remains to be done, and the principal actors in defending and extending social rights have often been voluntary associations of citizens operating on a more or less formal basis, sometimes in conjunction with government but often in opposition to official policies of austerity.

(Open University Unité 6 L222 Questions de société)


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La Malédiction

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La castration intellectuelle

Par le système capitaliste et

Les impondérables de l'existence

Contribue à la déshumanisation de tout le monde.

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Wisdom

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Edited by Gill Burrell, Saturday 18 February 2023 at 00:57


Good and Evil,
The devil has been sinning since the beginning. Anyone who continues to sin belongs to the devil. The Son of God came for this: to destroy the devil’s work.
(1 John 3: 8)
ER Bible

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Inspiration

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Edited by Gill Burrell, Tuesday 22 June 2021 at 08:56


And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love.
(1 John 4;16)

    

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Refuge

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Edited by Gill Burrell, Friday 21 January 2022 at 23:35

 The Lord is good , a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him. Nahum 1:7 ESV.

   

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Nearly there with ema

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Edited by Gill Burrell, Saturday 26 June 2021 at 13:12


Pleased with my effort today .  I tried  to write ✍what looks like a decent essay for part 1 also for part 2 the PDP. 📒
😴Feeling tired but 🙂happy with that. next is type   👩‍💻 it out on computer with a reference list. 📃Well that's the plan anyway but I may tweak it again a bit more but so far so good, over all it is looking ok.👌
Hope everyone is progressing     👍well with their studies. 🌺


Bonne contination.


    

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Up and running!

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Edited by Gill Burrell, Monday 28 June 2021 at 08:17

This morning been working on the L222 module unit 4& 5 again 👩‍💻and changing parts of it I don't find relevant to the question✍ (just facts about other things in general). Replace these with more specific items 📒that relate to the actual question itself.📖 from the module materials.

I think I was supposed to contribute something to the forum but I am too busy at the moment to do this as my time is taken up with writing the ema which I think this is very important at the moment. Had a drink🧃 🌯


Later weather not too bad 🌥 went with friend (younger and fitter than me !) For a fast walk. 👧She is a real keep fit fanatic! We did some speed walking together. 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️

This was very hard especially at first! 🤪 my ❤heart was pounding and my🦵legs were hurting, as well as my back. I felt completely out of breath🌬🌬  I am not in the fittest condition!
But after a while it was ok, but I needed to sit down 🌲 on a fallen 🛋tree. ah! thats better!

We did this in short bursts just around 1 field🌄  although  we could just have easily done it around the park.(but I was just too embarrassed to do that yet) 
But next time we will!
We had to go through the field, otherwise we would look an extremely funny sight wouldn' t we ? going through the streets like two waddling ducks! 🦆🦆
(Quack ! Quack!)

Good exercise!

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