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taurean

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About taurean

  • Birthday 27/04/1950

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    Sufferer
  • Type of OCD
    Thoughts

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Northampton, England
  • Interests
    Olympics (especially London 2012),Athletics,Swimming,Photography, Astronomy, Archaeology, Antiques Programmes on TV,Art. Choral and Classical Music, Jazz, Fishing, Aerobic Exercise, Gardening, National Trust, Wildlife

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  1. taurean

    Photography

    Very nice. Here's an "Easter pic" I took whilst walking back from my podiatry appointment. Lovely isn't it?
  2. Very well but awaiting second cataract operation so still pretty one-eyed at the moment.
  3. SeaBreeze, have you heard of anyone else with these obsessive thoughts? I haven't either, so that suggests it's all just trumped up rubbish by OCD. You need to stand up to the compulsive urges.
  4. Beautiful pictures, stunning.
  5. taurean

    Photography

    Amazing image from NASA resembling a phoenix bird.
  6. Try what I am doing now. I am watching football with the sound off, and listening to the incredibly relaxing "Dinner Jazz" programme on Jazz fm. Doing these two things at once is attention consuming and breaks the obsessive compulsive cycle. If not a football liker, no problem Work the same magic by watching a programme you like, but with the sound off and the subtitles on. It makes your brain hard focus away
  7. taurean

    Photography

    That's nice. I sm a great fan of Pro cycling. I had a major disappointment the year the Tour de France started here, about 11 years ago. They were set to go via Chelmsford ( where I worked two days per week, the rest of my time seeing clients or working from home). Coming back from Chelmsford, they passed through Epping Forest along a road close by my home. Unbelievably, the day they were doing that I was scheduled to chair a seminar in London- so I couldn't go and watch them - but did if course catch it on the highlights on TV in the evening. The speeds they achieve, for hours at a time, are incredible.
  8. taurean

    Photography

    The source didn't say whence the image came, but it looks like part of the space station in the solar array.
  9. taurean

    Photography

    Extraordinary photo of Britain from space.
  10. taurean

    Photography

    He is probably younger than his looks suggest, in view of that harsh existence.
  11. That's the one. Christ in majesty. It's by Graham Sutherland and completely fills the end of the cathedral. I presumed it was the East end, by tradition, but perhaps its the North to be able to fit the cathedral into the plot of land alongside the ruins of the old one. At first I found it overpowering, when in the building, then when I got used to it it seemed to resonate with me as symbolising the Christian faith and why the cathedral is there in the first place. It's one of a number of especial artistic treasures in the building. A crown of thorns sculpture The baptistry window The font The engraved wall of glass at the rear The tablets of the word on the pillars beside the nave.
  12. Yes, it's my cathedral, seat of the diocese of the Bishop of Coventry, the diocese in which my home town of Rugby sat. I am intimately acquainted with it, been a few times but also performed twice in it with my church choir when I was a chorister. The architect was Sir Basil Spence, and it was very radically modern and not universally liked. But it is very special. What do you think of the tapestry of Christ which dominates the east end?
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