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The Quaker spiritual path
10 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... If you are searching for something, feel a spiritual need; there is a way that can speak to your conditon. It is simple, honest, holistic and with a liberal outlook. It doesn’t have to take you off to a new age movement but it can help usher in... »
Strictly come dancing, and the celebrity greasy pole
50 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... The problem with strictly is much like “I’m a celebrity, gmooh”, and celebrity big brother, it is a show that allows C – Z list celebrities along with sports men and women to audition or reauditon for media work. Yet everyone is up in arms because an unfit guy... »
The Economy : Is my job safe
For working people its wait until next year, as we don't really know what happening; after Christmas we may have a clearer idea and hope that interest rates have been reduced to nearer 2% in the Uk, freeing up credit and lowering mortgages. ... Gordon Brown says he is going to spend on public... »
Validation of celebrity and fame (the fall of Capitalism)
23 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I have been watching the BBCs Strictly Come Dancing and ITVs The X Factor and whilst I enjoy both shows, everything seems to be overshadowed by the fall of capitalism. Whist in the 1980s Bush could claim that the Americans had won, history was over and the communists had... »
The Economy : “I’m not interested in politics”
29 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... This is not just the biggest economic meltdown of modern times, but also a political one. So there am I on the train into work and this couple opposite me are chatting and the guy sees a page on my paper, he says to the woman “I... »
Fear of the Future
6 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... In northern europe as fuel bills rise to astronomical levels, the average weekly shopping trip has risen in price by around 35%, house prices fall, interest rates stay at medium high levels, we are slowly coming to understand that the time of plenty without thought or responsibility is... »
SURVIVORS – BBC Tv series of the 1970s
14 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I read somewhere that the BBC were going to remake SURVIVORS as they had been in negotiation with the estate of Terry Nation who wrote the original idea and some episodes. “Survivors – Series 1 – Complete ” (Terence Dudley) This was an incredible series that went on for 3... »
Labour: what is it for, what does it stand for
11 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... At a recent meeting we discussed this, in fact the topic brought a few people along that had not been active for a while, just as this topic has brought me back to my blog. This incredible loss, both in London and across the country is an opportunity for... »
Setting out a civil marriage ceremony
141 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Marriage of Jonathan Spencer and Elaine Coady Music: As people are coming in a musician (our friend phil …see www.jomojames.com ) is playing and then after seating sings (Van Morrison: Crazy Love) Elaine and Jonathan come in to Trumpet March/Voluntary Jonathan will have his two older children Freya and Roland... »
Lets get married
9 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... So after a divorce and swearing I would never do it again, i got married! It was such a lovely day. »
Doing fine
9 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... after a chat in the pub recently and thinking about setting up a website so people could complain, along comes something altogether better and the opposite end of the scale, a forum so you can tell everyone about your successes and whats going well for you check it out... »
Mastoiditis – ear infections in children
22 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... So last saturday my daughter woke with her right ear sticking out, as she has rather petite flat ears this was a little odd. She has just has 4 teeth come through at the same time and had spent a week with her temperature going up a... »
Bespoke suit from Raja Fashions – Don’t do it
1,114 views (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ... So I am getting married in a couple of weeks, just a small family get together with a few friends. I have been married before so this is a UK civil wedding. I am not a great suit wearer, so am not experienced in... »
“THINK IT POSSIBLE THAT YOU MAY BE MISTAKEN.” ….MORE ON THIS QUAKER STATEMENT
17 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I have said before how empowering i have found this sentence….however I think often this is how it works: There should be no war…am I mistaken (thinks for 2 seconds) nah, I am right. How hard is it to really think deeply that all you have believed and... »
The Laughter of Women
19 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Sometimes in the use of verse one line or two can catch you and draw you in, I like this line: Prisoners held in underground cells imagine that they see daylight when they remember the laughter of women “Alive Together: New and Selected Poems” (Lisel Mueller) mainly because it reminded me of a... »
The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistos (hermes the thrice great)
24 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Corpus Hermeticum This is part of one of the great esoteric texts, and is a statement of positive existence The Tablet probably first appeared in the West in editions of the psuedo-Aristotlean Secretum Secretorum which was actually a translation of the Kitab Sirr al-Asrar, a book of advice to... »
Instructions from the rich and famous
7 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I am sick of getting instructions from the rich and famous on how to live my life. As the father of 3 children one of whom is not yet one, I am concerned about the future, about the way we live our lives and treat our world. BUT, if... »
Christmas stress and expectations
9 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Well it was our new daughters first Christmas and I had my older children from my first marriage coming round and staying over Christmas eve as well as my partners sister, who likes to be known as super aunt and does a pretty good job. Oh yes and... »
A native american tale of wisdom
14 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... An elder from the Cherokee Nation was talking to his grandchildren about life. He said to them… “A fight is going on inside me… it is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self pity,... »
Who would work in IT at Christmas
7 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Who would work in IT at Christmas, most people using computers in your company aren’t actually working they are either browsing for presents on the net or actually buying them, or doing their grocery or lingerie shopping. Whilst doing this they take their eye of the ball and... »
The final speech of Chaplin’s The Great Dictator
9 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I think The Great Dictator is one of Charlie Chaplins most interesting films, and this speech at the end of the film made not by the dictator but by his double the Jewish Barber, still strikes me as having deep meaning and as being as true today as... »
England, Euro 2008 and the germans had the right idea
8 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I heard it say after their 1966 loss to England the Germans went back and changed things root and branch in the German game and then dominated European and world football for 25+years from the 1970 world cup onward. Players of those times also went on to be... »
Heather Mills McCartney
7 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I wonder whether the media are preparing to send Heather Mills down the David Icke Road of Sad, Bad and Mad. Yes heather mills who married Paul McCartney and didn’t get on with his kids. I am not sure if I have the right order there. First they say... »
Jonathan Spencer’s Recipe for flapjack and Crunch
50 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... When I was a kid holidaying in Filey with my grandma flapjack was a thing called crunch, exactly the same as modern flapjack but crunchy, my suspicions are that modern flapjack was arrived at because as it is soft it has a longer shelf life, where as Crunch... »
Explanation of Politics
14 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... The Cow System LIBERAL DEMOCRAT You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. You feel guilty for being successful. You Get rid of your leader CONSERVATIVE You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. So? LABOUR You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor. You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his... »
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- Recipe to make Turkish Coffee
(5.00 out of 5) - To Be a Slave of Intensity – Kabir (5.00 out of 5)
- 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)