When I was five years old
Published: Mon, 03/31/25
I started writing this post on Thursday evening while waiting for my daughter Iduna to finish her weekly Jujitsu Class. She is still usually the…
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Knowing your limitations
Published: Wed, 03/19/25
I have recently completed a 21 day writing challenge and the following piece was in response to one of the prompts.“Some years ago I was at a camp…
Different worlds
Published: Mon, 02/24/25
I am up to day 10 of a writing challenge programme. The lady who organises and leads it does it every year I think but this is the first time for me…
My daughter's first Martial Arts Class
Published: Wed, 01/15/25
Last week evening my daughter attended her first martial arts class. There has been a Jujitsu class running at the local leisure centre for many years…
Happy New Year, lets make it a good one
Published: Sun, 01/05/25
Happy new year and I think 2025 is going to be an interesting year.Personally 2024 was a pretty good year. Iduna started school and is growing up…
A disaster to be proud of
Published: Sun, 10/13/24
With all this news of war and military conflict happening in the world it hard not to be reminded of one’s own military e perience. I never saw active…
Who cares who wins
Published: Wed, 09/25/24
The current BBC Radio 4 book of the week is ‘The Siege’ by Ben Macintyre, a new account of the attack on the Iranian embassy in May 1980 and the…
Sad local history
Published: Fri, 09/20/24
I wrote most of this post last Saturday, and then didn’t know how to finish it. Have completed it now and feeling rather depressed.We had a week of…
Training for life and death
Published: Wed, 09/11/24
I would like to teach an introduction to self-defence course over three Monday evenings in September. I have the hall available and I have a…
Back to Reality
Published: Thu, 08/15/24
On Sunday I got back from the Spirit of Awen camp and I had a lovely 10 days in the Gloucester countryside. There is a new site for this year which is…