To See Other Chapters Click Here Forward to Chapter 29 The Miracle in Our Eyes Today, the 23rd May, 2020, is the 3-year anniversary of my surgery for a burst appendix and subsequent sepsis. During my recovery, I became very aware of how little time might be left, and what I wanted to do…
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How to remember the Renraku in the IKF UK Kyokushinkai Syllabus
How to remember the Renraku in the IKF UK Kyokushinkai Syllabus 2020 Before reading this please either add me on Spotify and/or like My Facebook Page, or have a listen to some of my music using the player on the right. Renraku is a common Japanese word that means “contact”, “communication”, “correspondence”, or “connection”. Just…
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Indie Rock Cafe Review of Dangerous Things
The Stunning Automation of ‘Dangerous Things’ from Simon M. Smith APRIL 9, 2020 AUGUST W. ZANDER The original article can be found at: https://indierockcafe.com/2020/04/album-review-the-stunning-automation-of-dangerous-things-from-simon-m-smith/ The future of music may already be here. That is – the automation of music. With the backlash lately against automation, algorithms and artificial intelligence, it would be understandable if music enthusiasts…
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How to remember the Kyokushinkai Karate Syllabus (2020)
How to remember the Kyokushinkai Karate Syllabus . . Are you a Kyokushin Karate practitioner? Are you struggling to remember which techniques go with which grade? This article aims to provide a few methods that might help you. Even if the syllabus has changed since writing this, or maybe your own branch of Kyokushinkai uses…
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The Things We Said Song by Simon Mark Smith 2020
The Things We Said You can watch the video just below Or listen on spotify by using this link: https://open.spotify.com/album/6gVLLW55CcEc9uJSrT2WZI About the song I belong to an arts club in London called The Chelsea Arts Club, and about 8 years ago I gave a couple I’d been chatting with there a lift home, and in…
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Mike Madden Interviews Simon Mark Smith for Expat Radio
Mike Madden Interviews Simon Mark Smith for Expat Radio Hear the unabridged version with full length songs at https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderWor… or http://www.expatradio.uk/listen-again/ For further info about Alexander Wordsmith please go to http://michael-madden.co.uk/. Otherwise to hear the abridged version where the songs are cut short please click on the video below.
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Simon Mark Smith’s Autobiography Chapter 28
Chapter 28 To see other chapters click here Filling the Void 2019 This page was blank a moment before I wrote on it, and before it was a blank page there was an empty space which it came to fill. In time, it will disappear, and there will be a space where it had been,…
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A look at the Minim+ Energy Monitor and the Loop Energy Monitor 2020
A few weeks ago I got an electric bill that was £1000 more than I expected, I have a few lodgers, but they have meters monitoring their areas and they showed no increase in electric consumption. The only area which doesn’t have a monitor on is my area in which there is a communal laundry…
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The Leader of The Pact – Why There Shouldn’t Be a Pact Between the Conservatives and The Brexit Party – For Now
The parable of the wren who rides on the back of an eagle during a competition to see which bird species could fly the highest may well be an apt metaphor when it comes to whether The Brexit Party and Conservatives should create a pact together. If The Brexit Party wants to win then it…
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Let It Rock Review of Dangerous Things
Running the risk of reverie, British artist delivers his most diverse, yet intimate, records. Not too many of SMS’ listeners are capable of achieving with both hands what he accomplished without lower arms – something that the Eastbourne-based musician, painter and writer has been hiding from his online followers for years until revealing it recently…
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