Latest Post

The day began on a fairly low note. I decided to cancel the exploratory session on Thursday the 19th in Torquay because I felt it was more important to get a feel for the whole Torbay area, and if I want to write a book on it - as I do - then I need to maybe take a longer term view. I am only in that area for four days, so I think I can very well fill my time with sniffing around the place and...

Matthew 6  25-34 Worry about necessities 25 “Therefore, I say to you, don’t worry about your life, what you’ll eat or what you’ll drink, or about your body, what you’ll wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothes? 26Look at the birds in the sky. They don’t sow seed or harvest grain or gather crops into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth much more than...

I corresponded with Chat, as the plans I had for a visit to Torquay and work there next month seemed, on reflection, to be overambitious, so I decided to cut back and regroup. This is how CHAT GPT responded when I told it this morning. I agree we should not rely on tech too much, but this certainly helped clarify my position. You’re trying to do two jobs at once: arrive as a person and arrive as...

who are you? I’m ChatGPT ? Think of me as a smart, chatty AI you can talk to about pretty much anything—questions, ideas, writing, problem-solving, brainstorming, learning new stuff, or just messing around with thoughts. I don’t have a body or personal experiences, but I’m trained on a huge mix of books, articles, and conversations so I can explain things, help you think, or create things with...

It has been some days, if not weeks, since I last wrote a meaningful diary entry, and I find myself a little uncertain about how to proceed. I don’t think it’s a matter of having run out of things to say, because new things are always happening. Rather, it feels like a change of focus — a sense that I should be helping other people in their search for community-spirited awareness and...

Reflections on the Year Summing up one year of activity is something that I approach with some trepidation, so I will write things not in chronological order but in the order that appears to me as I write this document. Ultimately, this year I achieved what many thought was impossible: to conceive, execute, and publish a 300-page book about village life in three villages close to where I reside....