Sunday 09Sep18

Term starts in earnest 0900hrs tomorrow, my loins are girded. Last chance for sofa, feet up, edutainment

• Profiles in courage
• A love letter to realism in a time of grief - at last Pollock & George the TED Talk
• UnBreakable: Mark Pollock fell out of a window and broke his back
• Unbustable: Simone George, a human rights lawyer is a better research scientist than most scientists. 
• Unbuggered: the rest of The Blob's back-story on a tale of love in a time of collagen.
• I was bloggin' last Sunday morning & desired some background music. This is the trail:
• Karl Jenkins: Benedictus from The Armed Man [a fave of me Mum's]
• L'homme armé [medieval source for prev]
• Samuel Barber: Agnus dei op. 11
• Delibes: The flower duet from Lakmé
• Offenbach: Barcarolle
• Peter Boxell: I Miss you by Missing People Choir on BGT
• It worked in one case: BBC
• More music, mostly happy
• The Lumineers - Ho Hey
• ditto - Stubborn Love
• Bastille - Pompeii - that's had half a billion views but it's now to me
• George Ezra - Budapest
• Sickness
• Living with dementia: Understand Together
• Peter Attia confessional: arse-ways thinking about insulin resistance and obesity  - compassion needed.
• Ellen deGeneres still funny in CVS
• ditto Dara Ó'Briain at the Apollo
• How to live together: option for saving money in community
• I was skeptical about covering reservoirs in plastic balls to minimise evaporation. New analysis claims making the bluddy balls use more water in manufacture than is saved.
• Schoolin': essay on the virtues of Free Schools and Self-directed learning
• Makin'
• Torbjörn Åhman hand-forging a scythe from a steel cylinder
• Sushi World's wunderkind Shion Uino does fish
• Barry James Crowe makes sausages, by hand, quickly, wins certificate.