Ordinary Wisdom
No one is allowed to be a child
0 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... What have we done to our children, that they no longer are allowed to be children? Cossetted, protected, given everything, encouraged to gow up and mature so quickly. Yet their innocence rather than being in the majority taken by predators is corrupted in the home if not by... »
House swap holidays – swap your home in the UK for a great holiday
Exchange is the new way forward, its a way of sharing, learning and getting what you need without being sucked further toward a financial problem, so many people for example borrow to go on holiday. Simple house swap changes all that, to keep it simple its just in the... »
Ordinary Wisdom – Know the Difference
5 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... We are all one, but it is also important to understand that we all different and that difference is OK. Very often we criticise others because they are different, or they reflect a difference in ourselves that we dont like. Sometimes we seek out others like us, who think... »
Have you seen this rabbit? (Marks and Spencers Floppy legs Bunny comforter)…more
9 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Just as an update to a previous post here. I think I created a market for this thing, the latest one on ebay is at a starting point of £24. Luckily I did get one on ebay recently ( somewhat cheaper), thanks for all your comments and well... »
Wood Burning, fires, logs, paper log makers and other eco guilt gadgets
I would like the small open fire in my sitting room to be a wood burning stove, but the cost is prohibitive as I must get the chimney lined and for a small wood burner and the lining I would pay around £1300. ... Most carbon neutral policies displace increases in combustion of carbon... »
Right here right now
22 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Where ever you are, who ever you are, whatever your journey, whatever you are seeking, what ever you have found, who ever you are with….STOP What you need is right here, right now. Stop looking, stop searching, stop wanting to discover the secret, the hidden meaning, stop praying, stop mediitating,... »
The shaman of motivation
13 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I realise I use tis word a lot: shaman and to some extent it has lost its real meaning: Definition…A word derived from the Tungas language of Siberia, meaning “s/he who knows”, it it is also thought it may have partly derived from Chinese and run through two or... »
The Ultimate Christmas Present
13 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I recently watched a DVD called the Secret “The Secret DVD!” (TS Production, LLC) it really is the only present worth buying for yourself or anyone you know, and though I have put this link through to amazon, they will redirect you to a secret distributor as it os only... »
The Porn Myth
16 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I read this amazing article recently I want to share with you, its about some of the effects that Porn and Pornographic culture is having on our young people. Its not about a 1970s vision of men violating women though, its about the changing of young peoples expectation... »
Google’s Orkut…the internet is not such a trusting friendlyplace
8 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Do you have gmail or googlemail, do you use googles orkut…then checkout the privacy policy: “By submitting, posting or displaying any Materials on or through the orkut.com service, you automatically grant to us a worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicenseable, transferable, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right to copy, distribute, create derivative works of,... »
After 9/11, what if we had forgiven
10 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Marie Roberts said she and her family were “overwhelmed by the forgiveness, grace and mercy” shown to them following the murders on 2 October, her husband, a local man had killed himself after killing children at a local Amish School. The Amish have said they forgive him and have... »
Early Retirement
7 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... For the retiring among you This story reminds us of what we strive, for perhaps what acheivement really means, it sets out a value system, and challenges it… A boat docked in a tiny African coastal village. An tourist complimented a local fisherman on the quality of his fish and... »
Living in the present – Be Here Now
13 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... The present Why do we struggle so to live in the present and if we do why is it so often a distroted view we bring? We often yearn for the “better times” of the past, in fact there is a whole industry to take us there, whether it is... »
Raised on Love
8 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Love is the leaven of Life You can’t make bread without yeast to raise it up and so you can’t fully live without love to raise you up….click more to read all about it. http://www.jonathanspencer.net/xoops/uploads/img425e775e6e844.jpg Yeast, water, salt, flour, the only really palatable one on its own is water, I mean... »
the meaning of unhappiness
18 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Edith Weiskopf-Joelson, before her death professsor of psychology at the University of Georgia, contended, in her article on logotherapy that our “current mental-hygiene philosophy stresses the idea that people ought to be happy, that unhappiness is a symptom of maladjustment. Such a value system might be... »
Virtual Reality
10 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Look up, wake up Look up. look out. Look in….connect There is a real world and this is not it, it is out there, all we create here is ‘almost’ real, virtually real but it is not real. Please don’t be fooled. So you think you are communicating with someone, giving... »
Why did the chicken cross the road – a Consultant Explains
5 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Deregulation of the chicken’s side of the road was threatening its dominant market position. The chicken was faced with significant challenges to create and develop the competencies required for the newly competitive market. The Consultant, in a partnering relationship with the client, helped the chicken by rethinking... »
Empty Life
13 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Think about it, how empty is your life? Are you bound up with work….yes OK I have the post holiday blues. I know things are bad coz I keep thinking of amazing things to write here and then forget them so i am forcing muself to drivel... »
Success and Values
8 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Success and its trappings appear so important in todays world, what you have in terms of things, the way they look, and seem, this is what its all about…the circus of appearances. In fgact you don’t actually have to be successful, just appear successful Success and acheievement... »
the hand holding the pen
11 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... the thoughts of an ant There is a story of how an ant one day walked across a page of writing and thought wow, this is incredible its like a whole load of ants joined together, or the markings of an ant pathway and she went back and reported... »
what were they doing at 43
12 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... what were they doing at 43 so I am 43, and 44 soon, so i find this site which tells you what famous people were doing at this age…you can see that on the whole article page, but despite all that I feel i am doing very well thank... »
Ordinary Stupidity
9 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Jonathan Spencer’s Ordinary Stupidity Its not that I am wanting to put myself down, but this site needs a certain amount of self depreciation, maybe because its just my ordinary ramblings. My aunt on my fathers side… who dies lonely and intestate (actually she left a fair bit of... »
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- Recipe to make Turkish Coffee
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- Kindness – Naomi Shihab Nye (5.00 out of 5)
- Contact Jonathan (5.00 out of 5)
- Jonathan Spencer’s Recipe for Peppermint Creams (5.00 out of 5)
- How to get a close and smooth shave (5.00 out of 5)
- Bespoke suit from Raja Fashions – Don’t do it (5.00 out of 5)
- Unhealthy London Underground (5.00 out of 5)
- The Story of The Islanders (5.00 out of 5)
- Castle Boterel – Thomas Hardy (5.00 out of 5)