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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…

24 or 16?

Published: Fri, 06/28/24

Last weekend I enjoyed a very pleasant Midsummer Gathering at Silver Forest in Lincolnshire. The woods are looking good, the weather was hot but that…

A story of invulnerability and mistletoe

Published: Wed, 06/12/24

Why study and retell stories from long ago? Especially mythology which is not usually ‘realistic’ in the sense that it is unlikely to be a ‘true’…

They come and go

Published: Sun, 05/26/24

One piece of advice I was given about email marketing was: ‘If you are not getting some turn over of subscribers then you are not really achieving…

How Western “Democracy” Actually Works

Published: Sun, 05/12/24

The other day my 4 year old daughter asked me what symbiosis means? She had heard the word in an episode of Octonauts, a cartoon series which she…

Three wise monkeys

Published: Mon, 03/25/24

I must have been about 12 years old when I first saw the original Planet of the Apes film at an after school film club. I have seen it several times…

Declining Powers

Published: Sun, 03/17/24

Until quite recently a man could e pect to start claiming his state pension at 65 years old. Women could claim theirs at 60. A few years ago equal pay…

Who burned the most books?

Published: Sat, 03/02/24

In his memoir, ‘Total Recall’, Arnold Schwarzenegger recounts how, as a child living under the Nazi regime in Austria, his family had acquired a…

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