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 A tentative blog to test the temperature. |
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Ten years ago I was writing several blogs on various subjects - F1 motor racing, Music, Classic Cars, Great Romances and, most crushingly, a personal journal that included my thoughts on America, memories of England and Africa, opinion, humour, writing and anything else that occurred. It all became too much (I was attempting to update the journal every day) and I collapsed, exhausted and thoroughly disillusioned in the end. So this blog is indeed a Toe in the Water, a place to document my thoughts in and on WdC but with a determination not to get sucked into the blog whirlpool ever again. Here's hoping.     |
| Ides Today would be the ides of August, if only the Romans hadn't decided that just March, May, July and October should have their ides on the 15th. The other months have ides on the 13th of the month. So the ides of August have already passed us by without notice. It seems reasonable to assume that "ides" has something to do with the middle of the month, but that would mean the months with the 13th as their ides would only be 26 days long. The matter is complicated by the full moon having some influence, apparently, and then there's the adding to the Roman calendar of two more months to really confuse the whole thing. Which probably explains why we take absolutely no notice of the business. |
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