How Odin beat Iduna to the font
Published: Fri, 02/11/22
Our daughter Iduna was due to be baptised at the Methodist Church I belong to on the 29th of March 2020. Everything was arranged with the church for…
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When will we ever learn?
Published: Mon, 01/10/22
As I mentioned in previous emails I have been reading Reinhold Niebuhr’s 1938 book entitled ‘Beyond Tragedy’. Niebuhr himself was born and lived in…
Reasons for hope
Published: Fri, 12/24/21
We have been staying in Norfolk for a few days before Christmas. A family funeral and a chance for Iduna to spend time with her grand parents. To the…
When the reader is ready, the book appears
Published: Thu, 12/23/21
I have too many books for our rather small house, My popular fiction library has been massively reduced with the Lee Child, Clive Cussler, John…
Words for the darkest, shortest day
Published: Tue, 12/21/21
On Sunday I took part in a winter solstice ritual. There seems to be a loosely pagan group forming around a woodland in North Lincolnshire. We started…
The bridge you cannot cross
Published: Mon, 12/20/21
Hampstead Heath is a fairly large area of sandy grasslands and woods in North London. The Heath is not far from where I grew up so it was a favorite…
Blasting your way to freedom
Published: Fri, 11/05/21
Today is the 5th of November, the day in England known as Guy Fawkes day when there are firework parties. The fireworks are detonated in order to…
The Cult of Flu
Published: Sat, 10/16/21
I had a message from someone on my list questioning my definition of the word hoa, he quoted.Hoa : deception, intended to trick or mislead. · An act…
All aboard the runaway train
Published: Sun, 10/03/21
Unstoppable (2010) was a film about a fully loaded freight train which rolls down hill with no one at the controls. A veteran train driver played by…
Recognising a hoax
Published: Mon, 09/20/21
I have had a couple of emails from readers asking what I mean when I say that Covid is a hoa, and if it is a hoa, who is behind it? Very good…