Why train with weapons part 1
Published: Tue, 02/03/26
Updated: Tue, 02/03/26
When I first started training with Ivar Hafskjold in the Autumn of 1992 Ivar had recently returned to Europe from Japan where he had reached a very…
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Published: Tue, 02/03/26
Updated: Tue, 02/03/26
When I first started training with Ivar Hafskjold in the Autumn of 1992 Ivar had recently returned to Europe from Japan where he had reached a very…
Published: Sat, 01/31/26
Updated: Sat, 01/31/26
Many years ago my girlfriend and I were in Rome staying with my cousin and doing some sightseeing. One day we walked across the historic Ponte…
Published: Tue, 01/27/26
Updated: Tue, 01/27/26
I am not sure what all the fuss is about Greenland. Donald Trump (presumably with a reasonable amount of support from the US military and political…
Published: Sun, 01/04/26
Happy New Year and I hope that your Christmas/Yule celebrations went as you hoped. We were away for over a week, first in London with my family and…
Published: Mon, 12/22/25
According to Roland Zerpe’s book on Stav: Yule or Jul as the Swedes call it, is largely a festival of remembering and honouring the ancestors. To…
Published: Tue, 12/02/25
One of the best known stories from the Norse Mythology is known as ‘Thor’s visit to Utgard’. Thor responds to an invitation e tended by a giant by the…
Published: Fri, 11/14/25
The most disturbing thing about the Covid e perience of 2020 onwards which I observed was the degree of coercion that was attempted by the authorities…
Published: Sun, 10/26/25
A schoolboy joke used to sum up two world wars as ‘Britain 2 - Germany 0’ or something to that effect. In sport it isn’t so much whether you win or…
Published: Sat, 10/11/25
It seems that we might finally know what is wrong with our car. We only bought it this time last year and for most of that time we have had a problem…
Published: Fri, 09/19/25
Updated: Fri, 09/19/25
Right now the UK has a labour government led by Keir Starmer because the Labour party won the 2024 general election. However, this was not because the…