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In this article, you will find:

  • How to Survive Depression After a Breakup
  • Things You Shouldn’t Do After He Left You
  • What to Do After He Left You
  • How to Increase Your Chances of Getting Your Husband Back

There are a lot of unexpected situations in our lives! Bad things can happen to good people, just like when there is cheating in a marriage.

It can seem like everything was okay just yesterday. Of course, couples have conflicts. Who doesn’t have them in a relationship? But then all of the sudden, he mentions another woman and has now left you. You are alone with the pain now. You don’t know how to live through this.

This is a tough situation. When a husband decides to leave a family after many big conflicts, a wife needs to be ready for this. Sometimes, a wife can be ready for him leaving if she already knows about his cheating. It doesn’t make it feel better, but at least the wife knows about the threat.

Suddenly, it becomes very painful and hurts a great deal. Most women have become depressed, but a strong woman can analyze her case and find the opportunity.

The best option is to get him back from the other woman.

Most women never know how to do this and make a lot of mistakes.

How can a wife avoid making mistakes and fix a marriage?

How To Survive Depression After A Breakup

That’s it. He left. Maybe he said that he loved the other woman and doesn’t love you anymore. How could he leave after so many years of marriage? He swore to be with you, and now he’s not. First comes jealousy, then comes feeling guilty, anger, and pain. What should a wife do with these feelings? If she does nothing, she will suffer too much.

Jealousy is a common emotion in such cases. You have lost your husband because of another woman. How should you react to this? Of course, you’re angry. Feeling guilty is one of the most destructive things in life. You won’t be able to help anyone if you blame yourself. This pain can either destroy you, or you can use it to improve your life. Which way will you choose?

You didn’t know how to build a happy marriage, but now, you can try to fix it. Instead of blaming, you’ll be able to focus on ways to make yourself better and more attractive to him, and other men.

He can only see advantages in the mistress now. He’s forgotten about his wife’s advantages. A man needs more time to realize this in order to start missing his wife. He’ll start to see many disadvantages in the other woman.

A wife can always become the best lover to her husband. On the other hand, a mistress can rarely become a good wife. This is a much more difficult task.

You shouldn’t attack him or try to make him feel bad about his decision. Don’t push him. Don’t beg him for anything. If you do this, you will look too needy for him. A man doesn’t feel an attraction to a needy woman.

Men like women who respect themselves. If you are calm and positive in a conversation with him, he will start thinking about you. The less you contact and speak to him – the more he’ll think about and miss you.

Please watch this video, before you continue reading:

Things You Shouldn’t Do After He Left You

When your husband leaves you, Don’t blame or punish yourself. Everyone can make that mistake. You didn’t know how to save your marriage, this is not your fault, but it’s your responsibility to make yourself happy, more confident, and attractive.

It’s better to handle your pain. Pay more attention to self-improvement.

If your husband sees you being needy, crying, begging, and unsatisfied, he won’t regret his behavior. This means you have to prepare yourself to be more attractive using the right attitude and handling your suffering.

Don’t call or try to speak to the other woman. If a wife tries to fight with the mistress, it won’t make her more attractive to her husband. A husband won’t start loving his wife more when he knows about fighting. He will want to run away from such a woman. It’ll be more difficult to get him back after this.

Drinking alcohol is also a bad idea. This doesn’t help to solve these problems. If a wife drinks alcohol, she’ll be capable of doing a lot of stupid things. The hangover will not help to feel better, but it can make you feel worse. This is one way to be less attractive, less confident, and to have low self-esteem.

You’ll have to take control over your emotions and stop destructive patterns if you want to get your loved one back.

What To Do After He Left You

  1. Try to find out the reasons your husband left you. You can write down the reasons for your last 10 conflicts. What did he tell you he didn’t like during those conflicts? What didn’t he like in you? Why was he unsatisfied in your relationship? Maybe he didn’t feel support or understanding from you. Men want to feel valuable in a relationship. They like compliments and appreciation for their help and behavior. He was very happy at the beginning of your relationship. A wife gave him positive emotions and made him happy. Your husband didn’t feel the same emotions as in the beginning and now he needs someone who can make him feel like that again. Write down all possible reasons, it’ll help you to analyze and fix them. Knowledge is potential power.
  2. Once you’ve found the reasons, you’ll be able to create a plan on how to handle them. Don’t tell yourself that you know the problems and you will fix them after you get your husband. Most women make this mistake. If you know the problems, this is good, but not good enough. If you really want to have a happy marriage, you’ll have to work on your issues as soon as possible. Don’t even think you’ll be able to do this later. Your pain is fuel for positive changes. Use it to create your own way to a happy marriage and life. Most people change nothing. They just try to get their spouse back and hope for a happy relationship. Hoping doesn’t help you. You need a plan for creating a happy marriage and not only getting him back.
  3. Put away the stuff that can remind you of him. You don’t need to see his tools, photos, and clothes. Don’t send these things to him, men don’t like such behavior. If he needs something, he will come to you. Take this as an opportunity to show him your new image.

How to Increase Your Chances of Getting Your Husband Back

  1. For now, you need a break in order to work on yourself. You both need time to try and change. If you do not actually change in the way you should, he’ll know that he will come back to the same woman and to the same relationship he was unhappy with and tried to avoid in the first place. This is something he does not want.
  1. Work on your self-esteem. If you don’t feel valuable and attractive, why should he? Bad things can happen to anybody. If you lost faith in yourself, it’ll be difficult to be happy and get your spouse back. Make sure to use this technique, especially when the other woman intensifies her attempts to keep your man.
  1. Speak to water. Go to any body of water, such as a spring, river, stream, or just turn on the water in the bathroom. This has to be running water, not a still body of water like a lake, pond, or a pool. Sit down and tell the water everything you think about the mistress – all of the words that come to mind, like what kind of a bitch you think she is. Get rid of all of the hatred and negativity and give it to the water. The water will remove everything from you and take it far away, breaking it against rocks and sand. You can say something like, “I hate her because she’s taken, my man!” Don’t be ashamed of what you are saying. We can’t give you all of the possible options due to ethical concerns.
  1. Go out! Spend more time in public places, meet new men. Go out with your friends to interesting events. Don’t just sit at home.
  1. To get him back you will need to show your new and attractive image, and convince him that the negatives that destroyed your relationship before are gone. However, it’s not enough to just tell him about it. You will need to know how to influence him!

44 thoughts on “My Husband Left Me for Another Woman and I Want Him Back

  1. My husband left me for other woman but now he want to fix our marriage but the woman is a problem, she didnt want him to go near me & she is so manipulative, what should i do please help

    1. Go out with your husband on something interesting to you and him.

  2. Me and my ex had been together for 10 years. I stayed with him even I already knew then that he has another woman. We have a one year old son together. The woman claims that their relationship was already a year but we only broke up officially last September. The woman moved in with him. Now I’m getting hot and cold treatment from my ex. There are times that he acted sweet and there are times he acted so distant. I tried not to show any emotions because I don’t want him to think that I’m still waiting for him. Some common friends are telling me that we still have a chance. Do we still have a chance?

    1. Hello, Kristine!
      You still have a chance, but you need to pay attention to improve yourself

  3. hi, my husband and i are married for not even 2 years. we needed to move in to his mom place and then the problem started that we almost stopt our sex life because of no privacy, last week i found out he is cheating on me and we had a big fight. he told me there is nothing to fix, he loves this other woman (who is 16 years younger than him)… i dont wanna loose him/us, he is my everything!!! you think i have chances to get him back? he ignores me mostly and is on his phone 24/7 texting with her, i dont get a chance to get his attention… i am so lost… but i love him so much that i will try everything!!!

    1. Hello, Anaid.
      Yes, you have a chance to get him back, but you need a good plan. You need to influence his emotions.

      1. My and my husband have been for 2 years. He decided to leave me from another woman for 77 days then decided to call me to work our marriage then he left again. Because his mother came into town and he just switched up on me. I love and miss him so much. We were fine until his momma came into town. What can I do to get him back?

        1. Hello, Tiffany!
          What were the reasons he left you? Why he was unhappy?

  4. My partner of 10 years has just left me for his best friends wife (who was also a great friend of mine) he had a thing with her 3 years ago and it has been an on off thing since then. I have clarified it was a lot more off but in the last 4/5 weeks it got more serious now he has left our house and gone to be with her. Right now they are living in this bubble neither have anywhere to live together long term they are staying at family members house who is on holiday at the moment. But I don’t think the love bubble will last as she has 4 kids who so she can’t just keep going off.

    He’s told me he loves her, he still loves me but it’s a different kind of love. And he’s said he needs to try it with her to see what happens. I really really just want to fight hard for our relationship though.

    I know the reason it happened and why our relationship broke down and I have wrote him a list of the things I am going to change.

    Do you think they are really in love or is this just infatuation? Will it last? And should I hold on to the hope I can get him back?

    1. A man can miss his wife after he leaves her. Yes, you can get him back.
      Do you think they are really in love or is this just infatuation? – Probably, another woman is a replacement for your relationship. He missed the emotions you gave him in the beginning. That`s why he started a relationship with her. If you change yourself and become more attractive to him, you`ll increase your chances to get him back.

  5. My husband filed for divorce a few months after my daughter was murdered. He has hate for me because he had to give me 800 a month in alimony, 5000 out of his bank account and his truck that was pd off. He has joint custody of my 12 year old son. I tried to make him take me back but he said I had to give him his money and stuff back. He bought a beautiful home and still talks to me but I found out he has been taking my son to dinner with a married woman who he claims is a friend

  6. Please please help me!!
    My husband of 3 years but together 17 years with 2 boys had left me. I new he was having an affair, it was so obvious he sent msgs to me sometimes instead of her. He kept telling me i am parinode and jelous. Yes i was but that’s because i new what he was doing! He left and told me he doesn’t love me anymore but still insists its all in my head. I found condoms in his work shorts and lots more things, i know him inside out and i know this is not in my head. I love him more than i could ever explain plz help me what can i do to get him back. He was such a family man i don’t know him anymore. He says this had happened because of me, i had a very bad codiene addiction for 5 years, he helped me through tge detox but then i relapsed and tgat was it he washed his hands with me understandably.. i started to tale them again to make myself feel numb because i couldn’t cope with tge way i was feeling, i wad lossing my mind because i new what he was up to but he would not admit it to me. It sounds like an excuse but its the truth. I in a very dark lonely place i don’t have friends and he said that’s because i am do horrible to everyone. I accused a old friend of being with him but i really do think its her who hr is cheating on me with. I can’t eat i wake up crying go to sleep crying im so petrified i have lost him for good this time. Plz be honest and tell me what u really Think about my situation. Thank u kindly x

    1. You need counseling for becoming in a good positive emotional state. After you have become a woman who respects and loves herself, you`ll have a chance to get him back. You can`t get him back if you look desperate and needy in his eyes.

  7. Hi my husband for 9 years left me and son we been married for 2 years him n my best friend got really really close i knew this was gonna happen because i could feel it he told me it wasn’t anything like that then he told me i love u but im not in love with you while my love was dieing for you my feelings for her grew stronger so im sorry but i wanna try this with her because i will always wonder what it would be like with her because they have a connection that we dont have and he dont want it with me i love him so much it hurts so bad because it seems like he dont care it didn’t take long for them to get together thats what hurts because he moved fast.. And hes happy he changing his ways for her i wished he did that with me i dont think hes ever coming back home

  8. My husband and I have been together for 13 years. 15 months ago I found out he was having an affair. He went to work over seas and met her she is very young. She had no idea he was married and when we both found out about each other we were both shocked. My husband acted like we had the best marriage ever. All he said to me was our marriage was amazing but we had no passion. Months later we still remained friends but it seemed as it was starting to hit him more and more. So we talked and he said he still loves me and thinks about coming home all the time but he is scared. I sent him divorce papers he wouldn’t sign them. I asked him to please sign them as I can not move on until I am divorced. His gf messaged me and I messaged her a long very mean message, which at the time I never should have, she proceed to call me a lier so I showed her prof how he said he didn’t love her and still loves me ect. Then she sent me naked pics of them together and videos and showed me how happy they are. They go on trips all around the world ect. I felt so stupid that I actually believed my husband. When he found out we spoke he is now very angry at me ( not her) said that I pressured him into saying things like he loves me , he thinks about coming home all the time. He wants nothing to do with me . That I bully him all the time to get the answers I want. When really all I wanted was for him to be honest. Now he is making me feel horrible . So obviously he was lying the whole time and he was in love with her. Because now he is attacking me saying he never contacts me it is always me . saying he only loves me as the mother of his kids… so now my marriage is over but I don’t know why he wouldn’t just give me the divorce so we could all be happy . Why he has to lead me on? Why is he now turning it all around to be my fault? I know he is in mid life crisis but all he had to do was be honest.

    1. Hello, Nicole
      I think it`s his personality. He likes to lie and manipulate people. He loves himself.

  9. Hi my husband of 30 years left me for a younger former colleague of his 2 weeks ago. He has been in a relationship with her for 2 years and neither my 3 children nor I had any idea that he was unhappy and looking elsewhere. He was always a devoted, loving husband for our whole marriage even the 2 years he was having an affair. He keeps telling me now that he’s not sure what he wants, however, he continues to stay with her. I have returned to our faith and I feel like I need to try and save what we had for 30 years. He knows I continue to love him and he has told me he loves me and still has feelings for me. He says he loves her and she loves him but he’s not sure if she is going to make him happy long term either. He says he’s had a void in his life for several years and kept searching for things to fill it, it began with material things, thinking this was going to make him feel better. None of those things worked and he says she was making him happy. I’ve been trying to give him the attention he said he wasn’t getting from me over the past few years. He traveled 3-4 nights every week for his job for the past 7 years but it was something we decided was going to work for our family on a short term basis until our children were finished with college. Our youngest graduated in May, her grad party was June 9 and he left June 12. He didn’t even give us a chance to think about our time together now. He says when he call while he was away I was short with him and seemed uninterested in his life. From my perspective I was distracted or stressed taking care of our home, a sick dog, father and a son who has struggled with addiction issues for the past several years. It was never intentional which I realize now I was doing. I text or email now asking how his day was or send him a pic of the kids or just a goodnight text. He has been responsive to the communicating but still continues to stay with the other woman. Am I trying to save something that just isn’t saveable?

    1. Hello, Kim
      You have a chance to get him back, but you need other tools to influence his emotions.

  10. My husband moved out 2 weeks ago saying he’s not happy I don’t listen to him I don’t understand how he’s feelings I put my family in the middle of our problems that I always talk badly about him. He has a place he rented he says he doesn’t love me anymore he wants to try and live his life alone I married him in Cuba brought him to Canada we have been married 5 years together for 6. Right before he left I caught him cheating talking with a girl and I think that’s what pushed him to leave so fast. Meanwhile we booked a trip to Cuba last month supposed to leave in a few weeks. He’s not going he’s blocked my whole family and friends off Facebook he’s conpletely erased me like I do not exist for 6 years. The week before he left he Would call me to say he loves me etc. I’m in serious denial and want him back but he’s made it clear we will never get back together. I’m not doing separation papers in hopes we can work things out. I cried to him asked him to please work this out reminded him of all our history but I feel like that’s begging owhat do I do?

  11. We got married at 16. Now we are 30 with 3 boys and a baby girl on the way. He started to want to travel often alone and one day I told him enough. He said then I will pack my things and leave. And I packed them for him and he was surprised but he left. Now a month later he tells me he has a new partner. But he still wants to be in his kids lives and at evere appt with me. Is it really over? Do I need to move on now?

    1. Hello, Bella!
      I think you can get him back if you want.

  12. My husband left almost 3 weeks ago for his other woman he has been seeing for 4 years now. We have been together 11 years. I want him back but unsure if it is possible. He says he doesnt know what he wants. He says it’s a day at a time and hasn’t filed for divorce. Do I have a chnace?

  13. My husband had what was at least an emotional affair for a year, and is now living with her after I found out about it. We have 2 toddlers that he still comes to see almost any time he’s off and she isnt or has other things to do. We also spend time together doing husband/wife things and talking about what happened in our relationship. He still loves me and is very attracted to me, but Im afraid the longer he stays with the other woman, the more trapped he’ll feel and resist coming back to us.

    1. Hello, Tani!
      You will need to improve yourself and show your changes to him if you want to get him back.

      1. Hes noticing the changes and things are improving between us, but he still seems to want to give that relationship a chance.
        I honestly feel like hes still in love with me, yet feels he at least needs to give the other relationship a chance, but get discouraged whenever it seems hes trying to impress or please her.
        I know I CAN be the better option, but I still worry.

        1. After improving yourself you`ll be able to use jealous if he can`t make a decision. There can be a lot of circumstances, but in most cases like yours, women can use jealous for getting their husbands back.

  14. Hi my husband and I have been together for 8 years and married for 3. We have 2 small children. In July he told me that he didn’t want to be married anymore and he wanted a separation. Reasons for leaving were he felt tied down with a wife and kids and wanted freedom to go out(were both very young) and had problems with me in our marriage. We were still seeing each other a lot and many times he said he would come back home but never fully committed. I just found out that he has been seeing somebody that he used to work with and when I first found out he said he was sorry and made a mistake and will end it. But a few days later he said he was done with me. Yesterday he told me that he really likes her and loves me and is stuck trying to choose. He of course loves me but is really enjoying his time with her because it’s easy and there’s no problems. She’s also a party animal that’s 10 years older than him

    1. Hello, Nicole.
      How can you improve yourself for becoming more attractive to him?

  15. Hi please help me.
    My husband and I had been together for almost four years. He love me so much he care and trust me but his parents are against us because of domination from last year he want to have a child but this year on April I conceive he is happy with that but soon his mom got serious illness and she make him to agree to leave me otherwise she will not get well. Soon after I am three months pregnant he left me he block my call my whatapp and I found out that he had a new gf. But it seem that new relationship doesn’t last long he told me to abort a child but I didn’t agree and he start calling me again he ask for money and I still give him but now he left me again. I cry I want him back he block me again I told him and questions him why he left me but he said that I love him mom more than me and now he had a new gf who love him more than anything. He told me that he hate me and doesn’t want to see me.
    Please help me how to overcome this life on this situation I miss him and love him. Will he understand my feelings will he comes back to me oneday, will i have to wait for him?????

  16. My husband of 6 years (been together 13.5 years) filed for divorce a month ago, and is staying with his other woman until he can move into his new rental (any day now). We get along one day and then fight the next. Anytime she starts drama with me, he takes her side. He says he doesn’t love me anymore and that he never wants our marriage to work. He says he’s done. He says she is his future and I’m his past. But he s still willing to do family dinners once or twice a week the next 3 months until our divorce is final. Do I still have hope?

    1. Hello, Jessie
      I think you have a chance to get him back. You need to change his expectations about the future with you.

  17. My husband of 7 years (together 10) left me 2 months ago for another woman he has been having an affair with for a little over a year and a half whom he got pregnant a year ago(gross, I know). Him and I have 2 kids together. He’s very up and down with me. Has told me he’s wanted to come home a lot and that he cries. I’ve told him I’m willing and wanting to take it all on. That I want our marriage to work. He was very distant and cold when he first left. Now he’s more open and cries because memories of us flood his mind. He sounds confused to me. I’m wanting to fight for my marriage, do I have a chance??

    1. Hello, Kathy.
      Yes, you have a chance.
      What were the reasons he left you for another woman? Maybe he was unhappy in your marriage for some reason.
      You need to make a list of these things and improve yourself.
      He has mixed expectations about being with you. That`s why he can`t make a decision.

  18. Hi would love some advise and guidance my husband has left me for other woman a year and a half ago we were married for 39 year and together for 41 years she moved in with him after 12 week she is a old girlfriend I love him very much and miss him he has blocked me and wont communicate we have 3 grown up children I am heartbroken and can’t seen to get him out of my head would love him back

    1. Hello, Christine?
      What were the reasons he left you? Why was he unhappy with you?

  19. Hi Sergio,
    My husband of 25 years told me he wants a divorce. There were a lot of things that happened on both sides of the marriage including infidelity. We both went outside of our marriage at different times and had affairs. I forgave him but he can’t forgive me. My cheating took place 13 years ago and he asked for a divorce 2 weeks before our anniversary which was 9/11/19. We had been fighting a lot and there was virtually no intimacy. I asked him why now and his response was he’s been trying to love me and forgive me but he just can’t. I moved out but then he started taking me to brunch every weekend, we watch football together which is one our favorite things to do together, text everyday, talk almost everyday. I found out recently that there is another woman. He claims she is just a friend but he talks to her everyday for long periods all times of the night as well as during the day. I know better but he will not admit they are in a relationship. To add insult to injury he will not file for divorce. Should I go ahead and do it so I can move on like he has or do you think we can save our marriage? He’s hot one day cold the next but says he still loves me and even flirts with me regularly. At the end of the day I really love him and want him back. What should I do?

    1. Hello, Tee.
      I think you need to improve yourself, become more attractive and show your changes.

  20. I found out my husband was having affair and asked him to leave that was a year and half ago she moved in with him 6 weeks after we separated she is a old girlfriend we were married for 38 years he has blocked me do you think it will last are if he will come back

    1. Hello, Christine Rafferty

      You`ll have a chance to get him back if you improve yourself

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Art Fest 2019 is now history, but the tremendous enthusiasm generated by this historic gathering lives on!

More than 40 renowned Wild Wings and Art Brand Studios artists converged on Lake City, Minnesota on August 1st and 2nd for a celebration and sale of the very best in nature art. Artists from California, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Nova Scotia gathered at Wild Wings’ headquarters to rekindle memories from the past and inspire plans and dreams for the future.

Festivities kicked off with a lakeside breakfast and business meeting on Thursday. Representatives from Wild Wings and Art Brand Studios shared recollections about the history of the industry, described new opportunities resulting from the union of these two powerhouse publishers, and looked forward to very promising futures working together with artists. In a show of hands, attending artists shared their respective tenures with the publishers, which ranged from less than one year to more than 40! The business meeting was followed by—you guessed it—FUN! Thursday afternoon was spent on a leisurely paddlewheel boat ride on beautiful Lake Pepin in perfect summertime weather. On Thursday evening, the publishers hosted more than 100 artists and guests for a mouth-watering meal of grilled tenderloin steak and all the fixins’ sourced fresh from the surrounding Minnesota farmlands.

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Throughout the two-day event, a deep sense of pride and emotion filled the air. The Artist’s Choice Award was presented to Tom Moen and the People’s Choice Award to Brett Longley. And just as the doors were closing, one final announcement was made. Art Fest 2020 is on!

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Manto Tshabalala-Msimang doesn’t answer

#170. Wonder what made Manto do it. What made her unravel on HIV/AIDS? I started thinking about this yesterday after I saw the news of her death on twitter and watched as a “robust debate” [early term Manto terminology] was stoked up between the RIP crew and the “Ding Dong the witch is dead” brigade. So far I haven’t joined either.

I interviewed her as she took office as Health Minister in Thabo Mbeki’s Cabinet. As the Sunday Times health correspondent then I also accompanied her and her health department delegation to Uganda to look at how that country was dealing with HIV/AIDS. I was impressed. She seemed compassionate, warm even [when she took office she was the equivalent (in Lord of the Rings speak at any rate) of Bilbo Baggins to her steely-eyed predecessor Nkosazana Zuma’s Sauron] and in Uganda, utterly committed to facing the challenges head on. And then … Continue reading

Cake wrecks. First the blog, now the book

#156. Celebrate small things, like Friday. This is not a time to be serious so check out Cake Wrecks, the blog for when professional cakes go horribly wrong. Cake Wrecks is the creation of one Jen Yates who has just produced a book of the same name after finding that her gallery of “deformed, distasteful and bizarrely decorated wedding and birthday cakes” was a major web hit. Continue reading

SA vs Brazil

#125. Feel the love. And so we sat, on the edge of our seats, our eyes mostly glued to the pitch (which by last night was starting to show some wear). Mostly glued because the game was utterly captivating, nail-biting, excruciatingly suspense-filled. (The other few minutes had me glued to Twitter #confedcup). Around 48 000 of us packed Ellis Park along with about 47 000 vuvuzelas. Continue reading

Barack Obama is following me

#81. Love social media. After having spent a week in England learning about digital journalism which explains my absence from this blog, I hope, I have been converted to Twitter. Twitter is where people go to micro-blog. It’s like Facebook for the SMS generation. You get to follow people and they get to follow you. It’s all very flattering really plus you get say what you want in 140 characters.

Pithy is good. It’s a life lesson

And so it was with great excitement that I received the following news today.

It’s social media tools like Twitter and Facebook  — that are providing the opportunity  to create networks and foster a sense of community around common interests — that helped Barack Obama get to The Oval Office

As for my own Twitter-use, it may not be the first time I have been called a twit but it is the first time that I’ve enjoyed it.


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30 Awesome And Interesting Facts About Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was a British politician, army officer and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. As Prime Minister, Churchill led Britain to victory in the Second World War. Take a look below for 30 more awesome and interesting facts about Winston Churchill.

1. Ideologically an economic liberal and British imperialist, he was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924 before rejoining the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955.

2. Churchill represented five constituencies during his career as Member of Parliament.

3. Born in Oxfordshire to an aristocratic family, Churchill was a son of Lord Randolph Churchill and Jennie Jerome.

4. Joining the British Army, he saw action in British India, the Anglo-Sudan War, and the Second Boer War, gaining fame as a war correspondent and writing books about his campaigns.

5. In H.H. Asquith’s Liberal government, Churchill served as President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary and First Lord of the Admiralty, championing prison reform and workers’ social security.

6. During the First World War, he oversaw the Gallipoli Campaign. After it proved a disaster, he resigned from government and served in the Royal Scots Fusiliers on the Western Front.

7. In 1917, he returned to government under David Lloyd George as Minister of Munitions, and was subsequently Secretary of State for War, Secretary of State for Air, then Secretary of State for the Colonies.

8. After two years out of Parliament, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in Stanley Baldwin’s Conservative government, returning the pound sterling in 1925 to the gold standard at its pre-war parity, a move widely seen as creation deflationary pressure on the U.K. economy.

9. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was re-appointed First Lord of the Admiralty.

10. Following Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s resignation in 1940, Churchill replaced him.

11. Churchill oversaw British involvement in the Allied war effort, resulting in victory in 1945.

12. His wartime response to the 1943 Bengal famine, which claimed an estimated three million lives, has caused controversy, and he sanctioned the 1945 bombing of Dresden, which caused tens of thousands of civilian deaths and continues to be debated.

13. During Prohibition in the United States, Winston Churchill referred publicly to the Constitutional amendment banning alcohol as, “an affront to the whole history of mankind.”

14. Churchill, after being told that he couldn’t drink in front of the Saudi King due to the King’s religious beliefs, said, “my religion prescribed an absolute sacred rite smoking cigars and drinking alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and the intervals between them.”

15. His famous witticisms were planned weeks in advance by studying the issues and imaging all possible social interactions. He did this to combat his speech impediment.

16. During the applause following his famous “We Shall Fight on the Beaches” speech to the House of Commons in 1940, Churchill whispered to a colleague, “And we’ll fight them with the butt ends of broken beer bottles because that’s bloody well all we’ve got!”

17. He enjoyed bricklaying in his spare time and built several walls at his house at Chartwell.

18. The first known use of the term “OMG” was in a letter to Churchill 100 years ago.

19. Churchill drew up plans for a surprise attack against the then-allied Soviet Union. Dubbed “Operation Unthinkable,” the plan would have rearmed up to 100,000 former Nazi soldiers and kicked off World War III almost before World War II had ended.

20. Churchill and Gandhi were enemies. Churchill favored letting Gandhi die if he went on a hunger strike, and during the Bengal famine of 1943 responded to urgent requests to divert food supplies to India with a telegram asking, if food was so scarce, “why Gandhi hadn’t died yet.”

21. His bodyguard Walter H. Thompson saved Churchill’s life over 20 times, including from shrapnel during the Blitz, plots by the IRA, Indian nationalists, Arab nationalists, Nazi agents, Greek Communists and the deranged.

22. Lady Astor, the first female British MP, was constantly fighting with Churchill. During a debate, she declared that if married to him, she’d have poisoned his tea. Churchill responded, “Madam, if I was your husband, I would drink it.”

23. During World War II, Churchill required a pressurized chamber known as the Life Pod to fly due to his health. It included a phone, an ashtray and an air circulation system so that he could smoke.

24. When Churchill traveled by ship during World War II, he had a lifeboat mounted with a machine gun so that he could, “resist capture at all costs.”

25. In 1899, Churchill was held as a prisoner of war in South Africa as a newspaper correspondent, and after hearing that his release was unlikely, he made a 300 mile escape by jumping freight trains and walking.

26. Churchill took 60 bottles of alcohol with him when he set out for the Boer War.

27. Both Churchill and King George VI had wanted to accompany the Allied Expeditionary Force on D-Day, and were only dissuaded by an Admiral who said he would not take responsibility for them.

28. Churchill was a low achiever at school, thanks mainly to his independent and rebellious spirit. His father believed him to be unsuited to a career in law or politics, and signed him up for the army.

29. He got little time and affection from his parents, and once remarked that he hardly ever spoke to his father. When his father died young, at the age of 45, the young Churchill, convinced that he too would die young, vowed that he would have to make his mark on the world as quickly as possible.

30. In 1895, he went to Cuba to observe the Spanish fight Cuban guerrillas in the Cuban War of Independence. He came under fire on his 21st birthday and was later awarded a medal by the Spanish.

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Sunday, 21 April 2013

Reality Poem

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A week or so ago I was chatting to my local PCSO (Police Community Support Officer) at a Police Surgery at the community library that I am involved with in South Warrington.

We were talking about the levels of crime around the streets we were in and I pulled out my iPhone firing up the CrimeMap App ( ).

Once 'Everything Everywhere' had got its finger out I could see a range of ASB and other pretty minor crimes from up to Feb 2013. I was quite pleased to see that to encounter some violent crime I would need to travel a fair distance! If I needed some drugs it looked like they may only have been twenty minutes walk away.

NB: CrimeMap data only available in England, NI and Wales.

He was amazed I had this in my pocket. It is just one of a range of Augmented Reality ( AR ) apps starting to emerge of interest to the general public and organisations such as RSL’s and other Registered Providers. Initially the realm of wraparound video glasses, the emergence of most of us having smartphones and tablets is bringing AR down to a more useful and practical level.

Layar (  is another cracking app, apparently with 40,000 editors adding content worldwide, great for use within a strange town or city to view what you see differently. Find a museum, a piece of history or a restaurant using a layer put over what you point your tablet at and where your GPS location is. Comments can be added by users and with events can be rendered over the view of the device camera. Additional digital content can be added to print or images. Lonely Planet are one publisher currently onboard.

When abroad after a sticky situation on an overnight train from Madrid to Algeciras many years ago backpacking, I always learn some local language to get by. It’s tempting though to look at apps like Google Translate, which will attempt to translate local signs and text directly, just using your smartphone camera.

The potential this has is a great mash-up of channels, all working to enhance everyone’s day to day experiences of the real world. As you would expect, advertisers are already on board with this. A quick search on the apple store for ‘augmented reality’ gives over 1,400 apps. Excluding games, there are a number of useful apps here, from identifying that plane flying overhead, to sales apps (from companies like Tesco & others) to the NCP car park finder.

How could your organisation innovate using AR for social housing? Downloading that CrimeMap App for your ASB team, to use on the scheme might be a good start!

You can link with me on LinkedIn here - It would be great to connect !

Read on to: So is social housing getting the message across yet?

LKJ (Linton Kwesi Johnson) - Reality Poem.

(c) Tony Smith, Acutance Consulting 07854-655009

PS If there are subjects you might like me to tackle on this blog, please get in touch and let me know!

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Opening weekend extravaganza

Okay - day 2 of trying to summarize every free show at the Festival. After a momentary brain freeze ("How exactly do I group together all of these shows?!"), I've decided that today's entry would be purely chronological - first things first, as the saying goes.

For opening weekend this year we were aiming for a party inspired by soul, funk and r&b. We've certainly got that on our OLG Stage on Yorkville Avenue...but if we look at the opening weekend's programming on the whole, we discover quite an interesting range of music! Let's dive in.

The rundown begins

A few weeks ago, our Publicity team asked me to choose 15 picks from the more than 150 free shows we're presenting at this year's Festival. That's kind of like asking me to choose which of my 150 children are my 15 favourite. (Or is that a weird comparison?) I LIKE THEM ALL EQUALLY.

But. For the purposes of exploring the free shows you can see at this year's Festival, it's a good place to start. And so - here are my first 20 or so picks. (Because I couldn't even get it down to 15.)

Two weeks away!

You know how when you say to yourself "okay, self, this time you're REALLY gonna write blog posts every week" and then suddenly it's two weeks before the Festival and a whole lotta time has gone by since your last post?

Yeah, well.

Around the world in 10 days

Just over three years ago, I had the opportunity to take my big band to Ottawa for a performance with a fantastic vocalist at the Shenkman Centre. Overall, it was a great experience - the promoter covered our bus trip plus one night of hotel accommodation, and the show was sold out - but the logistics? Oy. Making sure 17 musicians showed up on time for the bus pickup, then soundcheck, then show call and then the early morning lobby call the day after the show...I'm lucky that I knew how to conduct a four-beat pattern during the show!

Exploring the sounds of the Middle East

This Sunday, May 6 at The Rex Hotel, we are excited to co-present, along with the Canada-Israel Cultural Foundation, the 2018 Israeli Jazz Showcase, as part of the wider Spotlight on Israeli Culture.

Good Things Brewing

What happens when you bring together four different band leaders, from a variety of musical and geographical worlds, to lead four different bands, all on the same night? I'm not sure, exactly, but no doubt great music will be made this Saturday night with the final Special Projects presentation of 2018.

Two special projects and a showcase

The next two weeks are going to be busy, both on stage and off - while I work furiously to round out the Festival's programming and we prepare for our major media announcement, we've got a part in three upcoming shows: Special Projects this Friday (Adrean Farrugia and Joel Frahm release BLUED DHARMA) and Saturday (The Smith Sessions Presents: Bitches Brew); then the Israeli

Here come the Heavyweights

We'll be back at Lula Lounge again next Thursday night, March 29 for our second of four TD Discovery Series Special Projects presentations. On tap next week: the release party for the Heavyweights Brass Band's new recording called This City.

The Kids are Alright

This time of year is always busy here at jazz fest headquarters, as we aim to lock in the Festival's remaining ticketed shows and finalize the budgets required to unleash a serious programming campaign (I'll have over 130 free shows to book - at least - over the next eight weeks). It's bound to be an action-packed month as we announce more shows, ramp up our publicity and figure out the substantial jigsaw puzzle that is the free show lineups.

Harley Card's Sunset Ensemble

As I mentioned in my post last week, in addition to the eight shows we've announced for this year's Festival, we have four outstanding TD Discovery Series Special Projects presentations coming up - and the first is next week!

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