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- Q.1 Does your life have a purpose? (36)
- Q.2 Are you an art lover? (66)
- Q.3 Do you have a good imagination? (39)
- Q.4 Have you ever wanted to stop the clock? (34)
- Q.5 Do you believe in fate? (16)
- Q.6 Do you believe in fairy tales? (18)
- Q.7 Have you dreamed of being a champion? (78)
- Q.8 Do you crave a better life? (23)
- Q.9 Do you feel in control of your life? (21)
- Q10 Have you ever seen a ghost? (18)
- Q11 Do you believe in justice? (31)
- Q12 Is our Earth enchanted? (103)
- Q13 Have you ever been mistaken for someone else? (8)
- Q14 Do you believe your stars? (9)
- Q15 Do you sometimes fear the worst? (58)
- Q16 Have you ever had a psychic experience? (17)
- Q17 Can you speak another language? (28)
- Q18 Do you let your heart rule your head? (20)
- Q19 Do you love hedgehogs? (9)
- Q20 Have your eyes ever deceived you? (113)
- Q21 Have you ever hugged a tree? (13)
- Q22 Do you love our Earth? (69)
- Q23 Do you believe all the laws of physics? (28)
- Q24 Do you get enough time to yourself? (11)
- Q25 Do you believe in fairies? (8)
- Q26 Do you take poetry seriously? (18)
- Q27 Do you like gardening? (7)
- Q28 Have you ever lived in poverty? (14)
- Q29 Could you live without machines? (19)
- Q30 Did you ever watch the rain on your window? (5)
- Q31 Are you a charitable neighbour? (11)
- Q32 Are you afraid of the dark? (10)
- Q33 Do you believe in life after death? (15)
- Q34 Have you ever restored something? (37)
- Q35 Do you trust your instincts? (45)
- Q36 Should a good life cost the Earth? (46)
- Q37 Do you know how to have fun? (37)
- Q38 Have you built a house of cards? (6)
- Q39 Do you believe in magic? (43)
- Q40 Can you play a musical instrument? (40)
- Q41 Do you like surprises? (64)
- Q42 Do you enjoy drawing? (9)
- Q43 Do you believe in happy endings? (33)
- Q44 Is there anything worse than a fly at night? (10)
- Q45 Are you good at marbles? (3)
- Q46 Do you value a good education? (43)
- Q47 Do you know your history? (34)
- Q48 Have you ever played solitaire? (11)
- Q49 Do you ever think about the old days? (22)
- Q50 Do you miss someone you love? (9)
- Q51 Have you ever taken part in a protest? (32)
- Q51a How many people does it take to fill up the Earth? (12)
- Q52 Do you believe in miracles? (39)
- Q53 Do you prefer to keep warm? (18)
- Q54 Do you enjoy a bit of a mystery? (64)
- Q55 Do you believe in truth? (11)
- Q56 Do you believe rules are there to be broken? (22)
- Q57 Have you ever spied on anyone? (14)
- Q58 Do things happen for a reason? (95)
- Q59 Do you like surprises? (11)
- Q60 Have you ever experienced deja vu? (14)
- Q61 Have you ever worn fancy dress? (15)
- Q62 Have you ever helped the poor? (5)
- Q62a Is life logical? (6)
- Q63 Do you like the way you look? (2)
- Q65 Have you ever wished you could fly? (13)
- Q66 Do you have a favourite flower? (8)
- Q67 Have you ever decorated a tree? (4)
- Q68 Does the Earth have a spirit? (20)
- Q69 Do you put off to tomorrow what you could do today? (10)
- Q70 Do you like to look at the stars? (37)
- Q71 Is there something missing in your life? (6)
- Q72 Are you a good time keeper? (20)
- Q73 Do you like nursery ryhmes? (6)
- Q74 Do you like puzzles? (14)
- Q75 Have you ever put on a show? (115)
- Q76 Are you going to take action now to save our world? (63)
- Q77 Do you get bored easily? (2)
- Q78 Do you want to be part of the picture? (29)
- Q79 Have you ever looked into the shadows? (26)
- Q80 Have you ever searched for buried treasure? (15)
- Q80a Do you keep a diary? (6)
- Star Question - what happened to the blue ribbon? (15)
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Archive for 09/09/2009
The Five Bells of St Lawrence
09/09/2009 by admin.
Our readers will know that our adventure opens with the appearance of the ghostly ‘Lady in Grey’ following the peal of five bells from a distant church at Widford Hertfordshire - as an announcement to help grab our attention we believe.
Deeply curious then that on this symbolic date, the oldest circle of bells in the Christian world have been lovingly restored and rehung at St Lawrence’s Church in Ipswich, Suffolk. They date from 1450 and would have been heard by Cardinal Wolsey as a boy. Restoration project organiser, Dr John Blatchley, anticipates word of the restoration will spread around the world. The bells were returned to the tower of the church for the first time in 25 years.
The five bells will carry an amazing medieval ring - a sound to warm the hearts.
More details on the bells and their triumphant return can be found at…
http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stlawrenceipswich.htm
Posted in Q58 Do things happen for a reason?, Haymakers: Watch Wonders, Q46 Do you value a good education?, Q35 Do you trust your instincts?, Q34 Have you ever restored something?, Q12 Is our Earth enchanted? | No Comments »
Lucy’s Leap of Faith
09/09/2009 by admin.
Lucy Hayes,an 8 year old from Cambridgeshire, has become the youngest female from Britain to skydive after jumping 9,000 ft over Lake Bled in Slovenia. Lucy and her brother Tom, aged just 7, skydived with their father, an expeirienced jumper. Children under 16 are not allowed to skydive in Britain and their friends at school were amazed after they told them they had jumped out of a plane. Her friends thought she was very brave but Lucy said, “It was absolutely amazing. I loved every minute of it.”
So, we have another example of someone named Lucy in the headlines, this time for a record-breaking feat. In the run up to Copenhagen, many in the world remain sceptical of the threat of human induced climate change or our collective ability to tackle it globally. Maybe Lucy -Mother Nature personifed - is on our side that the ‘Sky is no limit’ we just need to take a ‘leap of faith’.
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Sarah the Cheetah:Rush Save My Earth!
09/09/2009 by admin.
Usain Bolt recently set a new sprint record for the 100 and 200 metres, but Sarah the Cheetah has knocked spots of his time. She ran the 100m in 6.13 seconds, breaking the previous record set by a captive mammal in 2001 - and a good 3 seconds faster than the world’s fastest man. Chasing a toy the cheetah hit 60mph. Cathryn Hilker, set up the trial at Cincinnati Zoo in the US said, “She made three attempts and smashed the record on the second run, so there’s one big cat we should be proud of.”
Cathryn believes that Sarah’s feat has helped draw attention to the species’ endangered numbers, with the population falling from 100,000 in 1900 to one-tenth that number today, due to lack of habitat. What can we say: Sarah was fascinated by the recordbreaking cheetah, especially as when playing Solitaire the challenging way - by suit and turning ever third card, but try as she might she couldn’t win. Still she perserved (page 104) since Julia preached, ”If you succeed against the odds its much more fun.” So, Sarah refused to CHEAT! She believed in herself that she would win.
May we politely suggest that united we hold the Ace - as Sarah the Cheetah demonstrated - against the odds we need to Rush Save Her Earth!
This is a must Watch…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-za0uk158FE
Posted in Q75 Have you ever put on a show?, Haymakers: Watch Wonders, Q72 Are you a good time keeper?, Q48 Have you ever played solitaire?, Q36 Should a good life cost the Earth?, Q.4 Have you ever wanted to stop the clock? | No Comments »
The Numbers Game
09/09/2009 by admin.
In a live TV event magician Derren Brown successfully predicted the six numbers for the UK National Lottery. The numbers predicted were 2, 11, 23, 28, 35 and 39. Let’s see what happened.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmxua_V1AcM
Whatever artistry was involved its curious that this event should have occured during the Watch since Charles Lamb’s journal records two incidents of a magician predicting double numbers correctly. Whilst our very own Sarah witnessed numbers being predicted by a magician (page 154) prior to offering her questions for The Haymakers Survey, including double one - Snakes Eyes - which could be number 2 or 11 depending on how you look at things.
We also smiled because number 39 came up: Q39 is ‘Do You Believe in Magic?’ What were the odds? We have to ask who is the real magician? LOL! This leaves 23, 28 and 35. Q23 about the laws of physics - probability? Q28 about poverty, which is why many people do the National Lottery and Q35 about trusting instincts. So, do you believe the trick was real or fake?
Posted in Q75 Have you ever put on a show?, Haymakers: Watch Wonders, Q39 Do you believe in magic?, Q35 Do you trust your instincts?, Q23 Do you believe all the laws of physics?, Q28 Have you ever lived in poverty?, Q.8 Do you crave a better life? | No Comments »
09/09/09 Beatlemania Returns
09/09/2009 by admin.
We have the icing on the cake from The Beatles - a digitially remastered box set has been released, together with an X-Box Beatles game: ‘The Beatles: Rock Star’.
Our fascination is with the date of release. In Britain, 999 means EMERGENCY = given the role of The Beatles as the creative influence for our project we believe this relates to the ecological emergency facing planet Earth. Why the X-Box Game even has E3 in the title and is rated 12 (another coincidence given the 12 mystical stones to feature in our novel).
The White Album included the song ‘Revolution Number 9′. It has a curious new meaning now…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwQiQLqAKOA&feature=related
Oh, the promotional videos below provide all the details of the new releases.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok_qujcEmyQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpBDOolcs9g&feature=fvw
Posted in Q75 Have you ever put on a show?, Haymakers: Watch Wonders, Q58 Do things happen for a reason?, Q49 Do you ever think about the old days?, Q40 Can you play a musical instrument?, Q34 Have you ever restored something? | No Comments »