I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw this in Sainsbury's; they just about get away with it. This is supposed to be a diary but since the politics is so overbearing on all aspects of our life it is difficult to ignore it The words below remind me a bit how I feel stuck and helpless here in the UK. On the face of it, it is impossible to understand the folly of just importing people and...
I had the privilege this evening of facilitating a meeting by zoom that was the closest to becoming a role model for social and cultural meetings including committee meetings This was about dowsing and was a spin off from a rather inappropriate group organised by the British Society of Dowsers a few months ago. I have been a member of the BSD on and off for ages and have done dowsing since I...
I agreed to give a counseling session to one of my long-standing clients on a Sunday morning. I know him well enough that he would only ask for such a thing if he wasn't in extreme difficulty and so it was. He talked a lot about his work situation and the fact that his boss criticized him in front of a group on a remote call. There was something else that he needed to talk to me about and...
14 people were invited and 14 people showed up. There is always the moment before when you've done everything you can and say to yourself, what happens if?..... I'm glad to say that people did show up, they bought presents, everyone except one person made the attempt to dress up for the part and the occasion. As I'm de facto administrator as well as being a birthday boy everything ultimately...
Satan discussion - continued. this time between Brian (Ed) and friend John Brian: To maintain coherence as a human being, I have become convinced of the need to maintain certain pointers in our mind for example the consistency of a moral compass. Does an act lead to unity or divisiveness and looking at the cause rather than the symptoms and abstracting the principles from them. The coalescence...
Reflections on meetings that I have attended I have lost count of the number of meetings I have been to, large or small, harmonious or fractious, successful or confusing, aimless or full of purpose. As you may know I always wait until the day before deciding on my topic. This afternoon I had a meeting with my new web designer in, where else, Wetherspoon's. You would expect this pub to be fairly...
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