Month: January 2018

London visit Pt. 1 – David Bowie and Brixton

You are going to join us on our exciting journey to Londinium (the old name for London), the place where I spent 50 years of my life. We now visit it two or three times a year. since we have no free places to stay now I decided to use booking.com and see what I could find. I simply wasn't going to pay £100+  a night upwards which would stress my budget so I thought I'd have a look at the much...

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sympathy versus empathy

One of our English Parliamentarians, Tessa Jowell, has been 'battling' a brain tumour for the last year or so. It is a peculiarity that we use the term 'battle' for something which implies brute force. Do we battle broken legs or arthritis or kidney failure? No, we deal with them, we address them, we treat them, we examine the causes. The word 'battle' is part of the fear-based campaign by the...

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How to give birth to an idea

Spiritual programs are marginalised by the BBC to antisocial hours such as 6:30 AM on Sunday morning, repeat at 11:30 PM. In these days of catch up I suppose the timing doesn't matter in the way it used to, but there is something about listening to a program 'fresh' when other people are listening to it. Such a program is "Something Understood" which was introduced for many years by Mark Tully,...

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Political Correctness cannot go mad, it is already

I sit in front of my computer at home far more than the average person, not that I have any desire at all to be average. I subscribe to many websites and I just received my daily news e-zine from Forbidden Knowledge TV which is one of the most consistent and stable sources of real knowledge. Alex, who runs the site, has had her Youtube channel de-monetised on more than one occasion but she...

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My first Communion for goodness knows how many years

Enthusiastic followers of my diary will note that I reported gleefully that I went to church for the first time for years last Sunday and decided to repeat the process today for what turned out to be a combined service with the adjacent parishes. I entered the church at 10 minutes to the hour to find an enthusiastic crowd of about 20 people talking animatedly amongst themselves. And why not say...

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My writing course – diary part 2

It is nice to walk into this particular workshop on a cold morning because there is a real living wood fire to welcome you, comfortable seating and a view over the valley in which Bath is situated. Today, the view was mainly of mist but a very high quality mist because it's Bath. This was a private workshop so for reasons of confidentiality I cannot name names and so I will mainly focus on...

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