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A purple flower growing from the ashes

Published: Sun, 12/31/17

Hi I recently read an account of a trip to Alaska. Part of the e pedition involved taking a boat along a river where the author observed a whole…

A smashed windscreen and advice from long ago

Published: Tue, 12/19/17

Hi When I was a child my mother employed a cleaner called Mrs White. If I was at home when she was working we would chat about all sorts of things, I…

Why me?

Published: Fri, 12/08/17

Hi This morning I re-read the first part of my manuscript. The first part covers my early life and how I originally got interested in martial arts and…

Only nine years later

Published: Thu, 11/30/17

Hi ,On my notice board I have a print out from an email which I received almost nine years ago. I had had an article published in an American Martial…

Another one bites the dust

Published: Fri, 11/24/17

Hi So, another name from my youth passes away this week. David Cassidy was not that much older than me, less than ten years anyway. I was not really a…

The power of JFDI

Published: Fri, 11/17/17

Hi Over 36,000 words now for the first draft of my Martial arts book. I have completed the section on self-defence, tomorrow morning will start the…

Aiming to please

Published: Mon, 11/13/17

Hi I had a kind of complaint from one of my regular readers. Perhaps more of a request than a moan, he was suggesting that recently I have been…

Shaping the future

Published: Fri, 11/10/17

Hi We can’t predict the future. We can’t control what happens in the future. The future will always contain some surprises and events you did not e…

Keeping order in the classroom

Published: Tue, 11/07/17

Hi On Sunday afternoon Venetia and I went to see if you can walk around Hornsea Mere. You can’t, at least not on a footpath around the banks. You can…

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