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Home Thoughts: January 2015
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Personal perspectives on people, places, politics and the preoccupations of a seventy something! Thursday, 22 January 2015. Liberté, tyranny and the removal of nuance. The Magna Carta coins minted this year to celebrate the 800th. Anniversary of the event. There has been an outcry since the coins. Depict King John holding a quill pen - he did not sign the document! I have thought about this much in the weeks since Christmas. The “peace and goodwill”. We are indeed all "Charlie" - ready to. And as I watch...
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Home Thoughts: July 2014
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Personal perspectives on people, places, politics and the preoccupations of a seventy something! Thursday, 31 July 2014. Quill Sharpening and Other Useful Skills! The other day I read an article relating (once again! To Michael Gove who was, until last week, Secretary of State for Education in England. As anyone who has read my blogs before. Just like the desks we sat in when I was eleven - and the. Inkwells are visible. Mr Gove would be proud! Obsolete and the knowledge redundant. Links to this post.
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Home Thoughts: “.......Make haste, ye venal slaves, be gone”
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Personal perspectives on people, places, politics and the preoccupations of a seventy something! Wednesday, 15 April 2015. 8220;Make haste, ye venal slaves, be gone”. And as I grumbled on two things went through my mind. Didn't they believe in what they said in the Chamber? Where we all being conned? Was what we read in the papers and heard on the news just a game? Why weren't they arch enemies – had they no soul? Of course, as history records, Kennedy never got the chance to put his dream into action - ...
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Home Thoughts: "Now don't poo poo the idea but......."
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Personal perspectives on people, places, politics and the preoccupations of a seventy something! Thursday, 30 April 2015. Now don't poo poo the idea but.". Mingling with the neighbours. Hmm" says Alex "where shall I start". John and Ruth's three boys - our grandsons. Sam, Alex and Luke. 8221; I suddenly, and surprisingly, found myself agreeing – albeit with some little anxiety. “You're coming up to seventy”. Ready for the grub! Friends old and new: Sean, Howard,. We had approached Philo’s a few wee...
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Home Thoughts: June 2014
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Personal perspectives on people, places, politics and the preoccupations of a seventy something! Friday, 20 June 2014. One of the many design modifications. I'll get to those nuts somehow - and he did! One leg holds the tray one leg holds one of. Well, over the past few weeks a battle has developed in my back garden with an equally persistent, stubborn and determined foe – the neighbourhood pigeon! And I'll use my wings to help! See - I can get past any security you put up. Your blood pressure even more.
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Home Thoughts: May 2014
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Personal perspectives on people, places, politics and the preoccupations of a seventy something! Wednesday, 28 May 2014. Another Brick in the Wall" - or making racism respectable. UKIP and Nigel Farage celebrate. Today, following the very poor showing of the Conservative party, Prime Minister David Cameron described Nigel Farage as a “ consummate politician. 8221; and that the message of the electorate supporting UKIP policies had been “ received and understood”. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mocking Bird.
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Home Thoughts: October 2014
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Personal perspectives on people, places, politics and the preoccupations of a seventy something! Thursday, 30 October 2014. Thanks John And Charlie - For The Great Pleasure You Have Given. A week or so ago Guardian journalist George Monbiot posed the question “What should we call the age in which we live”? Other ages have had names given to them – the stone age, iron age, Elizabethan age, the renaissance.and so on. So what is our age? When you've had every other thrill why not try this -. But what is als...
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Home Thoughts: November 2014
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Personal perspectives on people, places, politics and the preoccupations of a seventy something! Friday, 28 November 2014. Cricket - a metaphor for life? The faded photograph at the Adelaide Oval. Phillip Hughes is struck by a bouncing ball. The Adelaide scoreboard records Hughes for all time. So why did I think of it when I read of the sad death of Phillip Hughes? So what did the old photo speak of? On my guided tour. Forty years on. old foes meet again,Wes Hall. And Lindsay Kline being acknowledged in.
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Home Thoughts: May 2015
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Personal perspectives on people, places, politics and the preoccupations of a seventy something! Thursday, 21 May 2015. Disenchantment, Division and Disunity (Part 2). GCHQ - we just accept that it is necessary and that. It should be largely unaccountable. But it is still in principle what he imagined and feared. It might be a bit of wry. Fun but it has a horrible. Neither do I believe that it would be much different were Labour in power – which is a sad indictment – but the fact that the Tor...Running t...
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Home Thoughts: Disenchantment, Division and Disunity - The Next Five Years (Part I).
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Personal perspectives on people, places, politics and the preoccupations of a seventy something! Saturday, 16 May 2015. Disenchantment, Division and Disunity - The Next Five Years (Part I). The next five years - for most, a portent of things to come. The answers to all these are beyond me and greater brains than I will have a million answers to them. And in any case they do not overly concern me. No, what I am concerned with is what the Tory victory says about us as a nation and how I feel about it.