Alan R Paine

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Enjoy writing, amateur theatre, travel - especially Greece, being nude in nature, painting (well I try), playing the classical guitar. Semi-retired edible oil processing consultant (more interesting than it sounds). The header is the seed bank from the UK pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo. Author of science fiction adventure/romance 'A Suggestion in Space' https://mybook.to/asuggestioninspace
Amazon author pagehttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Alan-R-Paine/e/B08PN1MZBC/ref=aufs_dp_fta_an_dsk
@HeliaXyana
I've put 100 but I'm already 70 and I wouldn't mind living to at least double my current age if I could have the same health and fitness I had at, say, 50. I've written a substach article about aging. https://open.substack.com/pub/alanrpaine/p/times-winged-chariot?r=2u8nhi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Time's Wingèd Chariot

Could we live longer and would we want to?

Science Fiction and Such Like
@barelife She's looking a little cold and uncomfortable. She's wearing strange shoes for a backcountry camping trip.
#DailyHaikuPrompt
Flowers by the house
Vivid colours in the sun
Hold off the autumn
@barelife Does anyone know where this is? It seems strange that no else is about. Perhaps she was wearing a dress that she quickly whipped off for the picture and then put it on again. If that was the case she has still managed to assume a serene pose.
Here's a picture I took of a Swallow Tailed Kite in Wakulah Springs State Park Florida on 8th May 2022. I stayed at the hotel there and could see manatees coming to the surface of the water as I was having breakfast.
@Co_Biologists That's interesting. So that means that even I, an interested novice in this field could post something and 'win.' I'm not sure that I will but the way in which complex life has emerged on this planet by an apparently random sequence of events is truly remarkable. I wonder how likely it would be for life to form on planet similar to ours. It wouldn't surprise me if the nearest planet where this has happened is well outside our immediate stellar neighbourhood, but I'm not sure.
@Co_Biologists You're going randomly select a winner?
#DailyHaikuPrompt
Undulating wheat
The shifting waves ebb and flow
Never the same twice
#DailyHaikuPrompt
Joy of victory
The agony of defeat
Ashes of children

Slightly overcast
The morning cloud cover breaks
For afternoon sun.

#dailyhaikuprompt - morning cloud
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