Mess up

DAY SIXTY-NINE: Wednesday 10th  2021:

I’ve made a bit of a mess !  My running total at the end of yesterday for my 2021 one million word challenge is wrong. Adding things up daily I have 475,308 words but double checking everything there are 418,277.

JANUARY 2021

The Retro Eighties – 22,328

L’Escargot Albert – 12,981

Aliens In Time – 11,190

In Search Of The Leons – 24,716

Jukebox Jury – 22,402

Dave’s Diary – 38,853

Milton Keynes A Disco For A New City – 8,883

TOTAL BOOKS 7 WORDS 155,284

FEBRUARY 2021

By The Pricking Of My Thumbs – 13,193

Behind The Noose Or Not – 28,648

The Secret Diary Of An Old Man Age Thirteen And Three Quarters – 14,297

Down And Out In Milton Dreams – 12,814

Poets Corner – 36,823

Dave’s Diary – 34,201

A Staircase Of Words – 16,437

TOTAL BOOKS 7 WORDS 154,414

GRAND TOTAL 14 books WORDS 309,697

MARCH 2021

This House Believes – 6,755

Running total 15 books  WORDS 316,453

CURRENT PROJECS

Dave’s Diary – 12,341

Dave’s Poems – 6,650

Destiny’s Servant – 3.688

Who Needs A Pub To Have A Quiz – 30,539

Fires Of Hell – 4,200

5 books 57,418 words

GRAND TOTAL RUNNING 19 books 373,871

PENDING

Poets Corner Volume Two – 23,010

Poets Corner Volume Three – 21.376

2 books 44,386 – 21 books 418,277

Given that I have been saying I want to hit half a million words by mid-March I have screwed up !  81,723 words to go ! I am tending to write around 4,000 words a day so mid-March is not likely to happen but the end of March is a possibility.

Here’s a few more words to add to DAVE’S POETRY.

 

A METAPHOR OF HISTORY

What we do today is the history for tomorrow.

Henry Ford said history is bunk,

Quite right he was.

History belongs in a museum,

with all the other boring stuff.

HERITAGE is what builds the future.

Politicians, acts of parliament and other stuff,

make history. Throw the lot in the bin.

Music, art and literature, beautiful things do heritage make.

Everyone alive today, You, me everyone,

make something beautiful today as a gift of heritage for tomorrow.

Leave history and all the boring stuff to the boring people.

After all history is bunk !

 

SMILE OF THE DAY : Don’t start your day with broken pieces of yesterday. Each day is a new beginning. Every morning we wake up is the first day of our new life.

Figures I hope are not wrong are the five thousand, seven hundred and sixty-six new cases of china virus yesterday and the two hundred and thirty-one people who died.  These figures are significantly higher than the day before, statisticians can not count over the week-end can they !

There are strong warnings coming from scientists that if WE do not get our act together these figures will rise ever higher into an other wave. While I have complained in the past about our too tittle too late government the plan it is now offering I think is very good but the sad little people who do not care about anything outside their own little world are asking for things to speed up. LEMMINGS !  If they want to jump off a cliff edge that is their affair but do not let them take REAL people with them.

Writing today:

I’ll edit some quiz sheets for WHO NEEDS A PUB TO HAVE A QUIZ. Dreading that but it has to be done. Let me target myself to sort five quizzes:

·       QUIZ FOUR: Thank You Our NHS – 25 questions

·       QUIZ FIVE: Saluting Our Services – 30 questions

·       QUIZ SIX: British Inventions – 25 questions

·       QUIZ SEVEN: Famous Politicians Or Should That be Infamous Politicians – 25 questions

·       QUIZ EIGHT: Traditionally What Was Made Where – 25 questions

DAVE’S POETRY well that is up to my heart and can not be put into a plan.

DESTINY’S SERVANT I want to set down all of the characters between where I am in the story 1916 and where it will end in 2124.

THE FIRES OF HELL As a teenager I was a great fan of the satanic story writer Dennis Wheatley. Within my Amazon Bookshelf I do not have anything of that genre. I am picking up on a story I started earlier and want to finish this month to add a satanic thriller to my bookshelf. Here is how it starts off:

"And so Man created God in his own image," Professor Garwood said in the conclusion of his lecture.

Professor Kenneth William Spencer Garwood, world renowned authority on the history and development of religion, smiled. Nineteen year old Toby Wolf smiled back. He had an idea.

The Garwood Theory suggested there was no supernatural being the like of which people called God. No god of the Christians and no god of the Jews. Allah was just as unreal in the Moslem faith as were the gods of Ancient Egypt, Rome and Greece. Yet they all spiritually did exist in their own time, some still do exist. Existence was a projection from the power of man's mind.

Man created God in his own image.

Even within the Christian religion God takes on many different forms. The god of the Roman Catholics is not the god of the Pentecostals and quite different from the Methodist and the Baptists. While man's collective mind also created the Devil his is one single persona, he does not differ from sect to sect. Hell is Hell, Evil is Evil and the Devil is the Devil.

Or was it ?

The Garwood Theory may have fame in academia but Toby believed he had within his mind an idea waiting to be developed into something of equal, if not greater, importance. Garwood had his PhD while Toby Wolf was still a humble undergraduate but what he wanted to bring forward was of greater significance than Doctor Garwood's consideration of any existence surrounding god.

Toby picked up a pen and began to brainstorm his thinking.

· How many people lost their lives in The Great War ?

· How many survived the conflict to suffer for the rest of their lives the injuries they had sustained ?

· How many were killed in World War Two and how many had to live with injuries they sustained during these years of fighting ?

· How many lost their lives under East European Communism ?

· How many individuals today live under the flag of the European Union ?

Using they keys of his laptop and the power of Google Toby set about finding answers to all of his questions.

· Seventeen million died in World War One with a further twenty million injured.

· Sixty million died in World War Two, that was 3% of the world's estimated population in 1940.

· Toby double and then triple checked the figure of 97 million who died under communism across the world.

· Finally he found that five hundred and eight million people make up the twenty-eight member states of the European Union.

Had there been no first world war there would not have been a Russian Revolution and there would not have been a second world war, half the continent would not have been subjected to the evils of totalitarian communist rule. It could also be debated that without the two world wars there would not have been a European Union and the dissolution of national identity.

Toby posed another question, firstly to himself and then to the all-knowing power of Google. What proportion of the British public are regular attendees at church ? The answer of ten percent showed that Great Britain is not particularly a god-fearing country, so what would be the answer of America where Sunday and church attendance is more central to the way of life ?  What would the result be for Italy and the heart of the Roman Catholic religion ?

Within moments Toby had the answers. The USA and Italy both had church attendance figures of thirty-seven percent. The figures were much as he had anticipated, what did come as a surprise was the incredibly high attendance rates throughout the continent of Africa where most were way above fifty percent. In Britain only one in ten went to church and allowed their minds to create a god. How many minds projected a devil into society ? Using Garwood's Theory, Britain had a weaker god than America but how strong was the devil ? Where were those who created Satan and where were those who worshipped him to make his force real ? Applying Garwood's Theory introduced some frightening thoughts into Toby's mind.

Outside waging war what is the most terrible thing one human being could do to another ?

Let’s check out ON THIS DAY – over to you Wikipedia…..

10th March 1959:  Fearing an abduction attempt by China thousands of Tibetans surround the Delai Lama’s palace to prevent his removal.

10th March 1966: Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam sacked rival general precipitating large scale civil and military dissension in parts of the country.

10th March 1969: James Earl Ray please guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King.

10th March 1975: In the Vietnam War Ho Chi Minh Campaign North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thuot in the South on their way to capturing Saigon in the final push for victory over South Vietnam.

10th March 2020: The World Health Organisation officially announces the Covid 19 outbreak as a pandemic.

10th March 1964: Prince Edward born.

Well that’s that then !

Speak again tomorrow

Dave

 

 


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