THURSDAY 27th DECEMBER 2012 10:00 GMT

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (27th December 1942)
On the Russian Front...
German XLVIII Panzer Korps recaptures Tatsinskaya airfield.
Soviet 2nd Guards Army attacks into Kotelnikovo against German Group Hoth.
Luftwaffe aircraft transport 127 tons of supplies to German 6th Army in Stalingrad pocket

In Berlin...
Russian general Andrey Vlasov signs the anti-Soviet "Smolensk Declaration" on behalf of the "Russian Committee"

In the North Sea...
British vessel SS Gertrude May is sunk by a mine.

In the Mediterranean...
Italian vessel Eleonora Rosa is sunk by RN submarine HMS Safari

In Tunisia...
Axis forces attack around Medjez el Bab

In the Atlantic...
U-356 sinks three Allied freighters before being itself sunk by Canadian warships.
Dutch vessel Soekaboemi sunk by U-441
British vessel Oakbank sunk by U-507British vessel Empire March sunk by German raider Michel, which is then ordered to sail to Japan.

In the Pacific...
US 132nd Infantry Regiment makes unsuccessful attacks around Mount Austen on Guadalcanal
In New Guinea...
Warren Force attacking Japanese positions around New Strip
Urbana Force attacking Japanese positions around Buna mission

In Burma...
Indian 123rd Infantry Brigade makes unsuccessful attacks against Rathedaung in the Arakan.

Today's Air Raids...
Rabaul, New Britain by US 5th Air Force, sinking 2 freighters.

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
A mixture of me time and missus time.

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3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
Today marks the final day of a truly magnificent slob spent mainly on the Consulting Room couch lost in cyberworld, giving just enough time to missus, who has mainly been with Daughter, to keep her happy.

I was pleased to see how positively Son responded to our long talk, and enjoyed a similar day to mine in his room. Off out rehearsing with his second band today, his morale will no doubt lift higher.

Daughter is sadly in a bad way - and looks it, though it must be said entirely self-inflicted - as a result of poor choices, self-absorbtion and a determination to blame circumstances, other people, ANYTHING other than herself for her unhappiness in relationships. As parents we are providing her with a warm quiet undemanding space and simply been there, which may help her heal and see things in perspective. Much less open to suggestion and ideas than Son, we can only hope she figures out for herself the things she needs to do to experience happiness.

For myself, especially with my training as a therapist, I have learned the discipline of detachment regarding the suffering of others. I am fully aware of it but do not take ownership of it, nor do I feel any guilt for enjoying happiness, pleasure and fulfilment while others are not. I have had my share of those things, and I can help others best from a position of strength.

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Are you willing to take responsibility for your own life and discard responsibility for what others do?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Cloudy and mainly dry, but there may be isolated showers in the afternoon.
Wind will be light and north-easterly, veering south easterly in the evening.
Max Temp = 4 degC
Min Temp = 3 degC
Sunrise at 08:25
Sunset at 15:52
Jetstream: Over southern Britain and westerly

6. TODAY'S ONELINER
Women forgive and forget but always make sure you don’t forget that they forgave you and forgot about it!.  : D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY
Peter Kay plugs his book on the Jonathan Ross Show

8. TRIVIA
In the Ancient Greek city of Syracuse in Sicily, Archimedes invented a device that could predict the movement of the five visible planets on one side, and the dates of lunar exclipses on the other. It used a sophisticated system of gears driven by a turning handle that moved pointers either side of the mechanism. The existence of the device was unknown until the 21st century when the remains of it was recovered from an ancient shipwreck in the Mediterranean.

9. THE WISDOM I'VE LEARNED FROM OTHERS
"It’s not enough to know your truth, you must live it." - Stephen C. Paul