Nicholas Bate

7 Things To Do In November

1. Write down your Christmas/New Year Plans. Now super-simplify them.
2. Start walking every day rain, shine or cold. Invest in the correct outdoor gear.
3. Start a classic novel. Aim to complete by New Year's Day.
4. Learn how to make nutritious casseroles. Eat better, save time, spend less.
5. Move More. Worry Less.
6. Draw. Even though you can't.
7. Start. Even though you are too busy.

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Some moods are a lot more pleasant than others. But all moods are there for a reason. Notice and learn.

7 Possibilities for Kit-Kat (confectionery bar) Limited Editions

1. Marmite. The trend for salt/sweet taken to the max.
2. Manuka Honey. Beat the winter cold.
3. Croissant. Accentuate the wafer. Ideal with a cafe au lait.
4. Poppy seed and lemon.  English afternoon tea. A time of leisure, the empire and a very red map. 
5. Beef broth. For cross-fitters, post WOD.
6. Cricket protein. Give it a try.
7. Alka Seltzer. One party too many.

Why We Love The Beatles (v2) 62 of 100: Evolution

Many bands do not evolve. They get a great sound/approach/live act and it works and their audience love them for it and it pays. It's a perfectly acceptable model. Some bands on the other hand like to grow. It's a huge risk of course because if you don't have the sustainable talent and album two doesn't do so well, you're out in the wilderness trying to collect enough tracks for a Greatest Hits Collection.

The lads of course never had that trouble; they just couldn't move quickly enough. Just when we thought we'd got them pinned down, they were off in another direction. And if any other player in the world of popular music would dare to do anything interesting, well the Fab Four would do it better . With an oeuvre as large as The Beatles it's tricky to get a real appreciation of how they did evolve, but a quick and dirty way is to look at their Number Ones: from the gorgeous simplicity of From Me to You through the developing lyric sophistication of Hard Days Night via the colossus of Eleanor Rigby, the charm of Something and the integration of Let it Be. And those were just the deliberate 'commercial' ones. Review the B sides and full album contents and Maybe, You'll Be Amazed.

Evolution? The Beatles were the Masters.

 

That's another reason we love The Beatles

The Back-Story

Reason 1: Story-tellers; 2: Sgt. Pepper; 3: Eternally optimistic; 4: Still cool; 5: George Harrison.; 6: Love Me Do

7: Work Ethic ;8: Synchronicity; 9: The Roof-top Concert; 10: Candlestick Park; 11: Lennon & McCartney

12: I Saw Her Standing There; 13: Liverpool; 14: Black & White; 15: Album Covers; 16: John Lennon

17: Lennon & McCartney; 18: Rock 'n Roll; 19: They Never Made it Easy; 20: Ringo

21: Meditation & Massage; 22: The Back of a Commer Van; 23: George Martin.

24: Simply Different

25: A Time to Think

26: Revolver

27: Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

28: The B Side

29: The Philosophy

30: December 1960: A Turning Point

31: What really, really motivated The Beatles?

32: 1961

33: Their last rock 'n roller.

34: From road to studio

35: The Magnum Opus

36: Mr Brian Epstein

37: Just Ordinary Lads

38: 1962

39: Yesterday

40: The Encouragers

41: 1963

42: Peace & Love

43: Abbey Road 1

44: Abbey Road 2

45: Always Cool

46: Did Paul break up The Beatles?

47: Timeless

48: The Seven Stages of Love

49: A Space in their Hearts

50: It Was 1964

51: Masters of Simplicity

52: Both 

53: Stories from Atoms of Experience.

54: That Rooftop, that slip of paper.

55: That 7-Minute Song

56: The Best Friends The Planet Ever Had

57: 1965

58: Play-lists

59: The photos of Astrid.

60 Catching Up

61 Consistently better

Let's Talk Money

How much do they earn?

He's Chasing

tried and tested.

Hard Lesson

in a sentence.

1 Solution. 5 Lights. 7 Minutes.

the details here.

100 Words

Deep and long sleep, slow coffee and some reflection. Rapid unpacking and washing on. From entropy and chaos to some order and greater simplicity. Quick e-mail and then switch off for the weekend. The local market: friendly, warm conversation and best local-grown vegetables at budget prices. But where’s the fish van? Hope he’s OK? Blue skies, strong sun and bitter wind. Balls in play across the park; kids at their best. Climb, run, yell and just be. Return to wood-burner and two novels and slow cooked food and reflections captured in her note-book.  Reflections on shifts; it was her Saturday.

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Subtract?

What could you drop, remove, significantly postpone, forget...subtract?

And remove some of the pressure?