"Isn't strange how often in life one starts off a relationship with someone who happens to be nothing at all like them in either trait or personality and yet they become the best of buddies, lifelong friends, soul mates, lovers and even man and wife. I must confess that as a 'horse' in the Chinese Astrological Calendar based on the twelve animals, I have always been partial to the 'monkey'. Yes, Sheila was born in the year of the monkey. What I never realised though, were that they were such damn good cooks into the bargain. Its the best of all worlds for any man; like sleeping with Halle Berry and eating with Mary Berry!" William Forde: July31st, 2013.
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"Isn't strange how often in life one starts off a relationship with someone who happens to be nothing at all like them in either trait or personality and yet they become the best of buddies, lifelong friends, soul mates, lovers and even man and wife. I must confess that as a 'horse' in the Chinese Astrological Calendar based on the twelve animals, I have always been partial to the 'monkey'. Yes, Sheila was born in the year of the monkey. What I never realised though, were that they were such damn good cooks into the bargain. Its the best of all worlds for any man; like sleeping with Halle Berry and eating with Mary Berry!" William Forde: July31st, 2013.
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Thought for today: "Here's a thought for you cat and/or dog lovers. One is using their brain while the other is using their brawn, but which one will exercise the greatest number of brain cells; him performing the 'work out' or her attempting 'to work it out?' The answer is that because the female species depend less on brawn and more on brain power, she has four times as many cells (neurons) connecting her left and right-brain hemispheres than the male. That is essentially the reason why the female of the species is a master at 'multi-tasking' while the male prefers to do one thing at a time. So there you have it chaps. Time to get back to your push ups; time to shut up and leave all the thinking to her ladyship!" William Forde: July 30th, 2013. Thought for today: "The remarkable courage of a man called Dallas Wiens ranks head and shoulders above those of little faith in the capacity for struggle and survival. In 2008, Dallas' head came into contact with a high-tension electrical line and he suffered unimaginable burns which left him without facial features. Not only did he defy the medics and went on to live after emerging from a three month coma along with spinal cord injuries, he survived with the courage and dignity of a super human. Motivated by the burning desire to to hold his two-year-old daughter again, over the following three years, he learnt to speak without the use of lips or teeth, he discarded his wheelchair even though he'd been told that he'd never walk again and he began doing push-up exercises. In March, 2011, Dr. Jeffrey Janis (please note that is Dr. Janis and not Dr. Janus) and Dr. Bohdan Pomahač performed the first full-facial transplant procedure in America, funded in part with the help of the US Defence Department. Dallas also regained his sense of smell.What an inspiration to others who suffer facial disfigurement. Dallas, we salute you." William Forde: July 29th, 2013. Thought for today: "Whom among us could ever harm so glowing a radiant smile that is bright enough to light up a world of darkness? Who could bring deliberate hurt to such a bairn through mistreatment, neglect or any other form of violation that mankind is cruelly capable of? Look with wonderment and sheer awe upon the most beautiful and innocent thing ever to bless a planet with its presence; the smile of a happy child. Not all persons of immense beauty come from the world of high finance or are seen on the cat walks of Europe's fashion houses. Not all beauty needs to be breast, legs and bum. Funky is often much more than a beautiful face to behold. Funky is fun!" William Forde: July 27th, 2013. Thought for today: "There is a time in every person's life when the mere presence of another is one too many. When Buddha sought 'enlightenment,' he did it alone and not with a companion. He wanted his eyes to be capable of seeing the happiness and sadness that flits between one human mood and another; between happiness and despair. He wanted his ears to be aware of all of the suffering around him lest he ever ignored the least part of it, so he listened and listened until he was able to hear. He heard the hungry and painful cries of the anguished, tortured, starving and abandoned children in the world, much as he heard the final breath of a dying butterfly with broken wings. He heard the deafening cries of 'Freedom' and 'No more. Please, no more!' from the oppressed and the desolate. He heard the eternal silence of a lost and abandoned soul! It was only when he'd trained his nostrils to smell the flavour of innocence and a pure heart in others that he knew he had discovered it from deep within himself." William Forde: July 25th, 2013. Thought for today: "I'm bored. If you don't come home and see to my dinner soon, Buster, I'll........ I'll show you, I'll...... wet my pants.....I'll ..... I'll tear up your house. I'll............ make the biggest, smelliest mess you've ever seen and then you'll be sorry " William Forde: July 24th, 2013. Thought for today: "Congratulations to Prince William and his wife, Kate, the mother of our future King of England. When he or his father comes to one day reign, hopefully the people of this country will have some decent politicians in charge; politicians who are brave enough to do the right thing for the country instead of themselves. We want politicians who implement the wishes of the people and who ride with popular policies for all instead of boarding the gravy train with eyes only on the perks of the job they can extract for themselves. How refreshing to find that there are a still a few politicians in the world who actually serve the people and not themselves; so unlike Bush, Blair and rest of the bling crowd who spent the whole of their time in Office negotiating and preparing for a wealthy retirement after they'd been cottoned onto and voted out! It's a common grumble that politicians' lifestyles are far removed from those of their electorate. Not so in Uruguay, however. Meet the President Jose Mujica, a President of the people and a president for the people. Jose, who lives on a ramshackle farm, drives a broken-down car and gives away 90% of his monthly pay to charity; professing that the remainder is sufficient for him and his family to live on. Laundry is strung outside the house and the water comes from a well in a yard, overgrown with weeds. Only two police officers and Manuela, a three-legged dog, keep watch outside. This is the residence of the President of Uruguay. Jose Mujica shunned the luxurious house that the Uruguayan State provides for its leaders and opted to stay instead at his wife's farmhouse, off a dirt road outside the capital, Montevideo.The President and his wife work the land themselves, growing flowers. Long may he serve. Long live Jose Mujica!" William Forde: July 23rd, 2013. July 31st, 201331/7/2013 0 Comments Thought for today: "Isn't strange how often in life one starts off a relationship with someone who happens to be nothing at all like them in either trait or personality and yet they become the best of buddies, lifelong friends, soul mates, lovers and even man and wife. I must confess that as a 'horse' in the Chinese Astrological Calendar based on the twelve animals, I have always been partial to the 'monkey'. Yes, Sheila was born in the year of the monkey. What I never realised though, were that they were such damn good cooks into the bargain. Its the best of all worlds for any man; like sleeping with Halle Berry and eating with Mary Berry!" William Forde: July31st, 2013. 0 CommentsJuly 30th, 2013.30/7/2013 0 Comments Thought for today: "Here's a thought for you cat and/or dog lovers. One is using their brain while the other is using their brawn, but which one will exercise the greatest number of brain cells; him performing the 'work out' or her attempting 'to work it out?' The answer is that because the female species depend less on brawn and more on brain power, she has four times as many cells (neurons) connecting her left and right-brain hemispheres than the male. That is essentially the reason why the female of the species is a master at 'multi-tasking' while the male prefers to do one thing at a time. So there you have it chaps. Time to get back to your push ups; time to shut up and leave all the thinking to her ladyship!" William Forde: July 30th, 2013. 0 CommentsJuly 29th, 2013.29/7/2013 0 Comments Thought for today: "The remarkable courage of a man called Dallas Wiens ranks head and shoulders above those of little faith in the capacity for struggle and survival. In 2008, Dallas' head came into contact with a high-tension electrical line and he suffered unimaginable burns which left him without facial features. Not only did he defy the medics and went on to live after emerging from a three month coma along with spinal cord injuries, he survived with the courage and dignity of a super human. Motivated by the burning desire to to hold his two-year-old daughter again, over the following three years, he learnt to speak without the use of lips or teeth, he discarded his wheelchair even though he'd been told that he'd never walk again and he began doing push-up exercises. In March, 2011, Dr. Jeffrey Janis (please note that is Dr. Janis and not Dr. Janus) and Dr. Bohdan Pomahač performed the first full-facial transplant procedure in America, funded in part with the help of the US Defence Department. Dallas also regained his sense of smell.What an inspiration to others who suffer facial disfigurement. Dallas, we salute you." William Forde: July 29th, 2013. 0 CommentsJuly 27th, 2013.27/7/2013 0 Comments Thought for today: "Whom among us could ever harm so glowing a radiant smile that is bright enough to light up a world of darkness? Who could bring deliberate hurt to such a bairn through mistreatment, neglect or any other form of violation that mankind is cruelly capable of? Look with wonderment and sheer awe upon the most beautiful and innocent thing ever to bless a planet with its presence; the smile of a happy child. Not all persons of immense beauty come from the world of high finance or are seen on the cat walks of Europe's fashion houses. Not all beauty needs to be breast, legs and bum. Funky is often much more than a beautiful face to behold. Funky is fun!" William Forde: July 27th, 2013. 0 CommentsJuly 26th, 2013.27/7/2013 0 Comments Thought for today: "Have you ever considered the selfishness of 'loneliness'. It is one of the most debilitating states of body which cannot be shared in order to exist; hence the solution to it." William Forde: July 26th, 2013. 0 CommentsJuly 25th, 2013.25/7/2013 0 Comments Thought for today: "There is a time in every person's life when the mere presence of another is one too many. When Buddha sought'enlightenment,' he did it alone and not with a companion. He wanted his eyes to be capable of seeing the happiness and sadness that flits between one human mood and another; between happiness and despair. He wanted his ears to be aware of all of the suffering around him lest he ever ignored the least part of it, so he listened and listened until he was able to hear. He heard the hungry and painful cries of the anguished, tortured, starving and abandoned children in the world, much as he heard the final breath of a dying butterfly with broken wings. He heard the deafening cries of 'Freedom' and 'No more. Please, no more!' from the oppressed and the desolate. He heard the eternal silence of a lost and abandoned soul! It was only when he'd trained his nostrils to smell the flavour of innocence and a pure heart in others that he knew he had discovered it from deep within himself." William Forde: July 25th, 2013. 0 CommentsJuly 24th, 201324/7/2013 0 Comments Thought for today: "I'm bored. If you don't come home and see to my dinner soon, Buster, I'll........ I'll show you, I'll...... wet my pants.....I'll ..... I'll tear up your house. I'll............ make the biggest, smelliest mess you've ever seen and then you'll be sorry " William Forde: July 24th, 2013. 0 CommentsJuly 23rd, 2013.23/7/2013 0 Comments Thought for today: "Congratulations to Prince William and his wife, Kate, the mother of our future King of England. When he or his father comes to one day reign, hopefully the people of this country will have some decent politicians in charge; politicians who are brave enough to do the right thing for the country instead of themselves. We want politicians who implement the wishes of the people and who ride with popular policies for all instead of boarding the gravy train with eyes only on the perks of the job they can extract for themselves. How refreshing to find that there are a still a few politicians in the world who actually serve the people and not themselves; so unlike Bush, Blair and rest of the bling crowd who spent the whole of their time in Office negotiating and preparing for a wealthy retirement after they'd been cottoned onto and voted out! It's a common grumble that politicians' lifestyles are far removed from those of their electorate. Not so in Uruguay, however. Meet the President Jose Mujica, a President of the people and a president for the people. Jose, who lives on a ramshackle farm, drives a broken-down car and gives away 90% of his monthly pay to charity; professing that the remainder is sufficient for him and his family to live on. Laundry is strung outside the house and the water comes from a well in a yard, overgrown with weeds. Only two police officers and Manuela, a three-legged dog, keep watch outside. This is the residence of the President of Uruguay. Jose Mujica shunned the luxurious house that the Uruguayan State provides for its leaders and opted to stay instead at his wife's farmhouse, off a dirt road outside the capital, Montevideo.The President and his wife work the land themselves, growing flowers. Long may he serve. Long live Jose Mujica!" William Forde: July 23rd, 2013. 0 CommentsJuly 22nd, 2013.22/7/2013 0 Comments Thought for today: "Life's treasure chest was never meant to stay locked in dungeons deep while grief mourned its passing up above. Save not your assets lest the day arrives when you open the chest and find it empty with no longer presents to bestow. Spread your wealth far and wide as soon as it comes into your possession and your friendship even wider and you will never want for thing or friendship. It takes a boldness of spirit to give away all that one possesses, especially when the recipient may not be fully deserving, but it is only through the act of freely giving can one truly become the good person that our Maker meant us to be." William Forde: July 22nd, 2013.
Thought for today: "Oh clouds of doubt fly past me now, for there has never been a time when certainty ruled with so firm a hand. Never has there been a moment of pleasure so enjoyed for pleasure's sake than in seeing you walk in a stride of confidence and conviction that will serve thee well when I can no more. Oh moon of heaven shine down brightly on my queen and light up her passage with reflections dear of days we spent upon the water beneath the bridges of Knaresborough where she rowed and I watched her grace of movement with the effortless glide of a swan. Oh night of love's shadows, never fade in hearts so pure nor darken life's passage of days yet to come, for the breath of life tastes good to all those who eat moderately from its feast on offer and I am yet not full enough to retire from its table" William Forde: July 21st,2013. Thought for today: "Over 35 years ago I visited Haworth for the very first time with my young sons James and Adam. While here and being an avid reader, we visited the museum and then set off to find Top Withens which was the remote farmhouse that is thought to have been the inspiration for Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. The location is around five kilometers from the south west of Haworth and it is accessed by walking passed Bronte Falls. Originally known as 'Top of th' Withens', Top Withens was thought to have been built in the second half of the 16th century by one of the Bentley family; probably George Bentley. At the time of the Brontes, it was inhabited by Jonas Sunderland and his wife Ann Crabtree between 1811 and 1833 when their son Jonas lived there with Mary Feather. It was last inhabited by Ernest Roddy in 1926 (See photograph of it in 1920), and has since blended into the surrounding moors as a much-loved farmhouse ruin. On the day of my first visit to Haworth, me and the children walked for hours and obviously got lost. It started to pour down with rain and we all got soaked. Ever since that day, I have referred to the spot as 'Blithering Wuthering Heights'. I now live in Haworth and did walk to see Top Withens this summer. But few among you natives know of the most secret place around this beautiful landscape called, 'Haworth Heath'. It cannot be found on a map and it is said that its wild horses that roam the grasslands even have their own special mating spot which they visit from time to time. No horse play now!" William Forde: August 20th, 2013. Thought for today: "Every couple who have ever been in love will share some special song of which the words or tune brings an instant image and feeling of happy days in their past. The song may remind them of some happy occasion or even one brief moment in time, when no other thing and no other person in the world mattered more than their lover, sweetheart and soul mate. And even if the relationship eventually breaks up or finds a natural ending as most relationships are prone to do, the grieving party/ parties will invariably either play 'their song' or alternately, refuse to ever listen to it out again! Such is the power of 'their song.' It has the capacity to to move the most intransigent of emotions and the power to bring instant tears to one's eyes. It can both soften and harden hearts that still feel tender and melt moments of magic into the most melodious of notes. Mine and Sheila's seems be, 'Once I had a Secret Love' by Kathy Kirby, but even that secret has now been let out of the bag." William Forde: July 20th, 2013 Thought for today: "When children are young they are ever so innocent and protective of hurting their parent's fragile feelings. As they begin to age however, a growing sense of mischief starts to emerge and by the time they have reached their teenage years, a distinct wad of sheer wickedness arrives on the scene. They cannot ignore the fat tummy of their sleeping dad whose photographed picture of shame has been circulated around the internet and is a global favourite on 'U-Tube' before he has woken up. And woe betide the false impression of the camera during the years ahead when the innocence of an outstretched arm of the youngest child can be used in the family album to embarrass poor dad forevermore as family, female friends and neighbours gasp in amazement at how well he is holding up in his 40's!" William Forde: July 19th, 2013. Thought for today: "The very first time I walked out with a member of the opposite sex was when I was 7 years old. She was a 9-year-old girl called Silvia (whose identity I will not disclose in order to preserve her modesty and good name), and she lived next door. She was a bit of a Tom boy and was the only girl ever allowed membership to my gang. Over the next five years, Silvia gave me my first kiss, my first touch of intimacy, my first peek of things to come and my first heartbreak when she decided that a 9-year-old wasn't old enough for her and dumped me in favour of 12-year-old Tony Walker; a freckled-faced youth who looked like a speckled thrush too sorry for himself and whose name I care not to preserve favourably for posterity. During my teenage years I rapidly came into my own and learned how to play the game of hide and seek. Whatever the girls elected to hide was what I sought to seek out at my first opportunity. The tables had turned and I gradually became the heart breaker of Windybank Estate. The years between 21 and 26 were my wildest of times. It was a time when I was fearless to any experience or anyone, or the mixture of both in any place, form and at any time. My first marriage at the age of 26 and the birth of my first two children proved to be both a brake on my life and the emotional dismantling of me as a fearless individual. Instead of abandoning all caution as I'd previously done, I found myself giving it too much consideration and influence over my actions. For the first time ever I found myself driving my car within the legal speed limit, learning to drink from a half-pint measure instead of a pint glass and inviting neighbours around to our house for a social evening so that we might show off a new sofa that had cost three months wages and which my 60-hour-week job would rarely afford me time to relax on. It was only after my heart was broken once more through bitter divorce and estrangement from my children that I realised I had spent 13 years in an unhappy marriage thinking always of others and never of myself. I knew that this martyrdom was unhealthy and that I needed to stop. Having been dumped once more, I needed to start thinking about my own priorities again. It was at that juncture of my life I discovered that one cannot truly be in love with life until one has learned to love oneself and all others creatures and people in it with equal measure. I found myself walking a new road; a more purposeful path where the journey's end would always bring satisfaction and reward, rarely heartache and never permanent regret. About one month ago I surprisingly saw Silvia..........walking down the road which we had walked together hand-in-hand 63 years ago. As I passed by her in my car, I hardly recognised her with her mane of grey hair and shapeless body, some ten stone weightier than I'd first known her. For one brief moment I was tempted to stop and say, 'Hello', but after looking at my own oversized body I now possess and the creases of aged wisdom in my face, I decided that it was perhaps kinder to both of us to grow old with fond recollections; remembering our first peek at things to come when she was 11 and I was 9 years old." William Forde: July 18th,2013. Thought for today: "In the journey of life that each of us takes, no one part is more important than another when examining the whole and weighing this experience against that experience; this time in our life as opposed to that time. As children of blissful ignorance to the sometimes cruelty and harshness of the world, our loving parents seek to protect us in our childhood innocence until the true identity of 'The Tooth Fairy,' and 'Father Christmas' can no longer be realistically disguised and advice pertaining to the 'talking to strangers' and particularly those strange-looking men in long trench coats offering passing children tempting sweets can no longer be postponed. As growing teenagers, we hopefully retain our love for all animal life and gradually grow to appreciate that even a cat can look at a queen or derive great pleasure from smelling the flowers as they pass by as much as humans do. For those of us who are blessed to meet their true love and soul mate before their journey's end, the simple things of life assume greater significance as do the thoughts, feelings and hardships of all others. We become for the first time in our life so filled with happiness and contentment that the mere sight of the sun shining down its resplendent rays across the valley of our thoughts open our mental horizons to all things being possible, if one wills it hard enough. Thus, the start of life's journey, its passage and its arrival at the final destination are all included in the price of one ticket and its experience cannot be told in any single stage without reference to another episode of experience and time. William Forde : July 17th, 2013. Thought for today: "The Victorian and Edwardian parents used to tell their daughters and sons, not to bring shame to their family by their actions. By the 1950's this message had been translated in most working-class homes as one of 'doing right and wrong'. Sons and daughters would receive subtly different messages that reflected the prevailing sexual bias between male and female at the time. Sons could and were expected to 'sow their wild oats' prior to marriage whereas daughters should, under all circumstances, always retain that which their brothers were expected to lose. But, if a lad or lass ever did wrong, the golden rule was to do wrong away from home and 'never to mess on your own doorstep.'" William Forde: July 16th, 2014. Thought for today: " Oh music of sweet delight that fills the morning air, brush by the grasses as you rendezvous with memories of your lover in the old corn mill of the past. Imagine what could have been, if only you'd possessed the courage to return his love that he freely offered. Though he was not free to have offered it when he did, he gave it up gladly and unconditionally. When he was free to love you openly, you were no longer available to receive it and left him heart broken and forevermore bruised to the possibility of further romance. During the years of lost contact in-between, you closed your heart to the advances of all men, and had reconciled yourself to marriage of social convenience with another for money and security. Now your lover of old, your one true love lies dead and shall not be seen on this side of the green sod ever again. He lies buried behind the old corn mill of his youth; the place where once you met daily in sweet surrender and where you now secretly return in the autumn of your life and play your strings of refrain once more among the ferns and grasses of love lost and bitter regret. Soon.......soon my love, we'll be together once more; this time never to be parted by any earthly force." William Forde: July 15th, 2013. Thought for today: "If you want to leave her, might I suggest that you leave her breathless. If you want to lie, better to lie next to her. If you want to let go, then let go of your pride and pursue her earnestly. Tread carefully with her feelings for they are too fragile to toy with and let her win at Scrabble now and then. Make holding her hand too tight be the only way that you can hurt her. It is a good practice of new and intimate relationships that you keep somethings private that only you and her alone share, as all lovers needs such exclusivity. Don't try to undress a woman when she doesn't want undressing or out-dress her when you are going out, for she should always feel in control and at the centre of attention. Grand gestures and complimenting the little things may appear worlds apart but, they aren't opposites, so do both. Remember that confidence is sexy and cockiness is not! Finally, never forget the Forde motto: 'If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you won't give up and if you're the type to give up on a good woman, then you're not worthy enough to be be with her in the first place!' Now you have all my romantic tips on how to get and keep a woman. I don't need them any more; I've found my Sheila!" William Forde: July 14th, 2013 Thought for today: "If only I'd known that my differences from others would become my greatest asset, then my early life would have been much easier for me. If only I'd appreciated then that one man's hindrance could be another man's help, I may not have given up on another so quickly and as often. If only I'd sensed that one person's cure is another's poison, I might have more profitably drank from wells that satisfied my every thirst. If only I'd suspected that superiority of station only comes from one's expectations of others' lowliness, I would never have made myself taller by cutting others down to a size smaller than I. If only I'd known the true contradiction of mankind, I would have felt more confident and worthy in the majesty of myself. For mankind is but a flawed God; made imperfect by the perfection of the sun, moon and stars that shine down on all in equal measure."William Forde: July 13th, 2013. Thought for today: "There is no deep secret as to why some people fail to achieve what they want to get out of life most of the time whilst others frequently attain their wants and desires. It is often down to blind belief, sheer self-confidence and a downright doggedness not to settle for second best. As my dear mother used to tell me when I was growing up, 'You are better than second best, Billy. Always remember, see what you want, go for it and whatever anyone says or does to induce you to accept less, don't be temped to short-change yourself.' She was most certainly correct as I've always found that if one holds out long enough for whatever one wants, one invariable gets!" William Forde: July 12th, 2013. Thought for today: "You first came to me and wakened me with the passion of your love and the promise of better times to come, kindling my soul and inflaming my desire to want until I could want no more. Then when I gave you all I had to give, you gradually moved away from my affections , leaving me with nightmares of the night, abandonment of all hope, the collapse of unspent emotions, and with only a grave end as means of stopping such heartbreak torturing my mind. Even the worms of the soil squirmed to the touch, when the sourness of your misspent passion became too bitter to endure a moment longer of my time on this earth in pointless thoughts of you, of what once was and what might have been." William Forde: July 11th, 2013. |
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