W. H. Auden

“A modern stoic,” Auden observed, “knows that the surest way to discipline passion is to discipline time: decide what you want or ought to do during the day, then always do it at exactly the same moment every day, and passion will give you no trouble.”

Break Point (Part 1) Retro

After watching the first part of the Break Point tennis documentary I have to say I didn’t really learn much about the players that I didn’t know already. As a tennis fan however that is to be expected I suppose. These documentaries are made for people who don’t yet follow the sport and its characters closely so I’m probably not the number 1 target audience. Apart from learning how everybody wants to be number one, working really hard and losing every week, nothing much more significant learned.

Where from this culture of laundry?

To be fair we all probably wash our clothes much too often—after every wear, even if they’re not dirty.

”Garments that sit right next to the body, underwear, socks, bedsheets, T-shirts that you might wear under your jumper, etc. they all need to be washed after every wear. But you need to make sure you’re using the right kind of detergent with them.”

For other items she advocates treating only the area that has become dirty, otherwise known as spot cleaning.

“When it’s something like a jumper and you get a stain on it spot cleaning is the way it was always done before and it’s why people had clothes lasting longer.”

Airing clothes out after a wear is a much better way to freshen them than chucking them straight into a wash.

In addition, Laura suggests that worn clothing often doesn’t require to be cleaned at all.

She says: “If I’m wearing a vintage outfit that I don’t want to wash quite often I turn it inside out after wearing and let it air for a couple of days.

You will save much more money and preserve the shelf life of your clothes.

Having good ideas

If you want to have good ideas, first have many ideas.

Even rubbish ones count.

A focus on quality too soon will stifle you.

So first focus on generating as many ideas as possible. Occasionally the good ones will emerge.

Oil Boss Running COP28

Is this a prudent move to give those closest to the problem more influence over how it is solved, or is this a play to protect industry, governmental and regional interests—ensuring the pace of action is not detrimental to some of its biggest beneficiaries?