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When truth and facts collide

Published: Mon, 09/30/19

Hi ,Is it already a month since I got back from the Mercian Gathering? September has been rather stressful for reasons I will elaborate on below. The…

Expensive metal sticks

Published: Sat, 08/24/19

Hi ,Last weekend I was at Fightcamp. I didn’t go last year and I had been warned that the demographic was now younger and only interested in…

Come on, light my fire

Published: Wed, 08/21/19

Hi ,One of the activities we practiced at the Runes and Trees Retreat was fire lighting. I recently discovered modern flint and strikers for fire…

Why you don't want to be a meercat

Published: Mon, 08/19/19

Hi ,I am glad I am not a Meerkat in a zoo. I would be fed up with people shouting ‘simples’ at me in a mock Russian accent. And since I probably…

All in the mind?

Published: Fri, 08/16/19

Hi ,part three of a series of five posts. First one looked at how drowning in too much information holds us back. Second, how a fear of not having…

Just in time

Published: Thu, 08/15/19

Hi ,Some years ago, when my mother was in her mid eighties, she had a fall. Apparently she fell forwards onto the pavement having tripped on something…

Too many books, even 3000 years ago

Published: Wed, 08/14/19

Hi ,When I was a child my parents bought me a set of the Britannica Junior Encyclopedia. This resource came in (as I recall) 13 hardback volumes…

Off to camp again

Published: Wed, 08/07/19

Hi ,It was one summer evening about 15 years ago, when I was living in a farm cottage just outside of Kidlington in O fordshire. An email came through…

and forty thousand elephants died

Published: Mon, 07/29/19

Hi ,I recently watched an interesting TED talk by an Alan Savory who grew up in Africa and trained as an ecologist. In the 1950s Mr Savory took charge…

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