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It Is Interesting

Posted on 14/10/2010 by admin

I joined Linked-In to commune with the social networking business community and I have been interested to see how many posts are to do with the 7 things you should/should not do, the 10 most important things for your business, the 5 this and the 8 that. And I see that this way of thinking…

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Package This

Posted on 13/10/2010 by admin

I remember just after the Gorbachev era, or maybe in the middle of it, Western good in their bright packages hit the shops of Russia and people bought the bright, polished goods and found, to their horror, the bread and the alcohol were not as tasty as their own, dully-wrapped traditional fare. They learned a…

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Autumn

Posted on 12/10/2010 by admin

This morning is very bright and sunny, chilly to the skin and the leaves are all massed along the sides of the road and strewn across the fields. The grass is so wet it is more like paddling than walking but the sun was just at the right angle for me to catch the spider…

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The Salvage Of Age

Posted on 11/10/2010 by admin

Many people seem to think wisdom is something that comes out of the Bible; they even call it wisdom literature. It is something that comes with old age because living gives experience. We associate in our myths wisdom and advanced age with all those long white beards (and yes in our myths it is often…

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The Stars And Me

Posted on 10/10/2010 by admin

It was one of the immense ideas of science and the phrase of Carl Sagan’s that rang down the TV and will ring down the centuries, that we are made of star dust. The stars are a vast resource of knowledge and wonder to our wonder-seduced brains. I was never one to have learned all…

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Peace Through War

Posted on 09/10/2010 by admin

It is a common commentary on Europe that we now have peace because war became too violent even for us as the victims involved increased exponentially in the Twentieth Century. The reasons for war never changed in all the centuries: tribes moving to new places to live as their populations expanded, greed, to gain advantage…

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The First Of All Loves

Posted on 08/10/2010 by admin

It strikes me to ask if Adam loved Eve. If Eve loved Adam.There are many, many jokes about the last two people on Earth and an assumption that the first two must somehow have been made for each other. And yes I know it is a myth, but the question still stands in the myth,…

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Holidays

Posted on 07/10/2010 by admin

Wandering alone on beaches in Cornwall in the winter, and secluded beaches no one knows about in summer, I have always wondered what people who lie and sit on beaches squashed together until you can’t see much sand, get out of it. The old explanation given me by people is that if you don’t take…

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The United Kingdom

Posted on 06/10/2010 by admin

It is still a Kingdom, after a fashion, though the monarch doesn’t have people beheaded anymore they still anticipate the bowing. The Cornish who now do not differ genetically from their English cousins, still maintain a liberal tradition, the Welsh, descendants of the original inhabitants of the island, are penned up in some amazing small…

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Who Is Who

Posted on 05/10/2010 by admin

We just adore categories. As human beings are ‘pattern makers’, a species that naturally looks for similarities and groupings in order to understand the world around us, we base our knowledge upon a series of categories and once we have generated an assessment process through our schooling, we readily place items into their respective categories….

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