A disaster to be proud of
Published: Sun, 10/13/24
With all this news of war and military conflict happening in the world it hard not to be reminded of one’s own military e perience. I never saw active…
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Who cares who wins
Published: Wed, 09/25/24
The current BBC Radio 4 book of the week is ‘The Siege’ by Ben Macintyre, a new account of the attack on the Iranian embassy in May 1980 and the…
Sad local history
Published: Fri, 09/20/24
I wrote most of this post last Saturday, and then didn’t know how to finish it. Have completed it now and feeling rather depressed.We had a week of…
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…