So good to hear some new music from Charlie Peacock. This is so different to what most of us are used to from Charlie. Great song and I love the video.
I’m a cyclist. I love cycling and I love bikes, so it takes a pretty amazing car to impress me.
Check out this video and you’ll not only see an impressive car, you’ll meet an even more impressive lady. I can only hope that I’ve got it together as much as Barbara does when I reach my later years.
One of the great attractions at this year’s Perth Royal Show is Titan the Robot.
Titan is a massive robot which puts on several shows each day, entertaining children and adults alike. I’ve had a chance to see Titan’s performance a few times over the past few days.
Titan’s live performances can draw crowds of thousands but not content with this Titan likes to pop up on television as often as he can. Titan loves to be in the limelight and has travelled to every corner of the British Isles and to many European countries including Ireland, Spain, France, Czech Republic, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden and Germany.
Titan has also covered much of the globe, appearing before disbelieving audiences in China, Vietnam, USA, Thailand, Dubai, Oman, Doha, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Hong Kong.
Titan has a habit of making the headlines when visiting counties abroad and has been on the front cover of the Gulf News, the Saigon Times, the Irish Times and the Beijing Daily one of the biggest selling newspapers in China. Titan has been in just about every publication you can think of in the UK from the Daily Mail to Truckers Magazine!
You can watch just a small part of Titan’s show in the video below.
I love this video.
It’s a video that took over 20 years to make and it features 32 year old filmmaker Jeremiah McDonald and a 12 year old Jeremiah McDonald. It’s really a clever few minutes of the filmmaker talking to the younger version of himself via videotape. You can check out a few more details on the story at News.com.au
I’m a fair bit older than 32 but if I had the opportunity to talk to a 12 year old Rodney Olsen I wonder what advice I would give him. If I could go back to the mid-seventies and give my ‘young self’ some life advice, what would I say?
I think I’d tell him not to worry about the small stuff so much. I’d also tell him to cultivate a strong reading habit.
Some of my strongest advice would be in the area of faith. I’d recommend that he stay as close to God as he could and to learn how to lean on him through the good and the hard times.
I’d tell him to make the most of his relationship with his mother because he’d only have her around until his early twenties. (Thankfully I did have a great relationship with mum, but she still passed away far too soon.)
One of the things I’d be sure to say is to make sure you take lots of risks. Not reckless risks that would endanger him or others, but risks that ensure that he didn’t ever wonder ‘what would have happened if only ….’.
I’d tell him to treasure every relationship.
I’m sure that there would be plenty to tell that young boy. There are lessons that I’ve had to learn the hard way that would have been easier if someone had the right words to say back then.
Overall, I don’t have many regrets but I certainly wouldn’t want to go back and do it all over again. I’ve had a pretty good life so far and while it’s almost certain that I’ve passed the half way mark already, I still feel as if life is just beginning in some ways. I’m also finding that a lot of the advice that I would give that young boy is the kind of advice that I’m giving or need to give to the two young lives God has entrusted to me now.
If you could go back and give some advice to yourself when you were very young, what would you say?
Eduard Khil, best known as the “Trololo” singer, has died in St. Petersburg, reports RIA Novosti. The Russian singer was 77.
Last week, Khil was admitted to a hospital after suffering a stroke. – Huffington Post