What goes around comes around, would seems to be true,
For we only receive, the Karma we're due.
And if to help others, you go out of your way,
Good Karma is yours, to enjoy as you may.

But if you...

Words to the Wise.

Before you speak, listen.
Before you write, think.
Before you advise, experience.
Before you spend, earn.
Before you invest, investigate.
Before you teach, learn.
Before you...

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a debate that goes on inside people. He said, My son, the battle between two wolves is inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy,...

I have been building a library for 6 years now here in Thebes. My mother had a library she bought them by the yard at auctions but, my father did them justice and built her a teak shelved library....

My mate Bruce gave me this years ago always on about him. When Bruce was on the run he met up with Otto's 3rd wife.
Ilse Luthje, the Countess Fincke von Finckenstein, who proposed to Bruce for him...

Old Robert is going to town, it makes sense now he has another book coming out.... :cool:

It's not new information but it's well presented.

An order of fried eggs on toast, as known in some of the old time cafes.
As I was saying in some-other post, about riding through the 'big blu, years back. The ladies arse in-front of my camel was a...

Just heard this poem by Charles Causley and found it very moving, never heard it before. If you get chance google it.

This is a favourite poem of my mother's.

I read into it now a rather sad connection with the current situation in Egypt.

Source: Poemhunter

THE LOSS

The man watches, silently and unobserved,
as dust, litter and lost memories gather storm.
The tears mingle with the sweat of generations,
buildings lay empty, disused, unwanted.
The...

Global Facts About Sex.

FACT: At Any Given Moment: 79,000,000 people are engaged in sex - right now!

FACT: 58,000,000 are kissing.

FACT: 37,000,000 are relaxing after having sex.

FACT: 1...

Who can you trust.

Only trust someone,
who can see these three things in you

The sorrow behind your smile
The love behind your anger,
And the reason behind your silence.

RHYME TO PRAY.

I rose one morning brightly,
and rushed into the day.
I had so many tasks at hand,
No time to kneel and pray.

Problems tumbled about me,
and harder came each task.
Why doesn't He...

Once place I would rather be right now.
Sunday morning hung-over in anyone of 8 boozers chatting with somebody interesting who would also be hung-over, it's my favorite festival with over 10...

In my wanderings around the Virtual World, I found this... Including the Title.

Actually, there is a word for that.... it's love! I'm in love with her, okay? If you're looking for the word that...

A very interesting and enjoyable Book Club at the hotel last night with the theme Exotic Places . Readings included extracts from Mark Shand's Travels on my Elephant , To the Moon and Timbuktu by...

This was published today in a Scottish Sunday newspaper.Hope I'm not breaking any copywrite laws by sharing it..but it kinda sums up the NHS today,and hopefully will educate those who knock it!

What...

The Piper.

Recently a young piper was asked by a funeral director to play at a graveside service for a homeless man.
The dead man had no family or friends, so the service was to be at a pauper's...

:up Our very own hard working, determined Miriam Khalifa AKA Gunn Marit Nisja has signed a contract committing her to write an Egyptian trilogy for us who can read Norwegian!!!!!!!!!!!

I am sure...

The Pharaoh

By Garry J. Shaw

The book explores what it meant to live as a pharaoh in ancient Egypt. According to the AUC Press website: “Garry Shaw covers, through eight themed chapters, all...