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All the time in the world

Published: Fri, 09/23/16

Hi After today there are just 99 days until the end of the calender year, or even 90 days until the Winter Solstice, depending upon how you see the…

How not to be stuck in your own web

Published: Thu, 09/08/16

Hi It is one of those completely still and misty autumn mornings. All the spiders webs which are usually pretty much invisible suddenly look like mini…

Nest stop Mercia

Published: Fri, 09/02/16

Hi I am off to the Mercian Gathering today for the weekend. Two years ago it had got to the point of having a thousand people attending and the…

A silly game

Published: Wed, 08/31/16

Hi When Ivar first started teaching Stav back in the early 1990s (seems like a long time ago) I remember him saying. “There are nine traditional…

Rested and inspired

Published: Tue, 08/30/16

Hi I got a response from one of my students yesterday saying thanks for the message (the one about plumbing) and that he had been missing my missives.

Let there be... hot water

Published: Mon, 08/29/16

Hi Last Friday I restored hot water to a house with only cold water. The owners had only just moved in on the Monday and Venetia and I are…

Stav, the Scandinavian perspective

Published: Mon, 07/18/16

Hi I would like to share this article with you. It is by my friend Roland who lives in Sweden and he has known Ivar for almost as long as I have.

Trains, planes and navigating an automobile

Published: Sat, 07/09/16

Hi ,‘Got the train!’ said the te t. I found out later that the train had been in the station and about to leave. So we made it with literally a minute…

Hail is the whitest of grains

Published: Sat, 07/02/16

Hi Hail is a very strange phenomenon, grains of ice can fall from a clear sky, even on a warm day. Sometimes the hail can come in big enough lumps to…

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