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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... »
21st century blues
20 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... so my 20 month old daughter woke me one night and by the time we had got her back to sleep I could no longer lie still and I went to the kitchen made a cup of tea, lit a fire and surfed the net and I found... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
Mary Oliver – Dogfish
43 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Mary Oliver …again Build a shrine to this woman, (Mary Oliver ) her way with words and soul and emotion is just amazing, her ability to understand and comminicate images from nature that echo ancient symbols and visions of the internal workings of the heart and soul is incredible.... »
Woodburning stove
7 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Well I finally did it, and everything can be bought on the net, I bought a wood burning stove from www.naturalheating.co.uk, who were very helpful and full of advise and interest, and they were not as expensive as you think. I went for a wood burner rather than... »
The best novels of the 20th Century
18 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... This publishers list was prepared by the editorial board of the Modern Library, a division of the publisher Random House. So when you say top 100 modern library and all that stuff it sounds unbiased. The board consists of: Daniel J. Boorstin, A.S. Byatt, Christopher Cerf, Shelby Foote,... »
Using Ecto to write a blog
2 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... As you may know I am a Mac user and have been looking for a way to write my weblog on my desktop without having to access the website and then I found Ecto. However it can seem daunting taking on a new piece of software. And Ecto... »
Global Capital and the Global elite are robbing us blind
13 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I wasn’t really sure about what to call this, but hell am I becoming a Communist… I am grappling with an understanding of why ordinary people and the social support netowrks they have built up are being slowly eroded and how the network of global capital is taking... »
If You Forget Me – Pablo Neruda
26 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Pablo Neruda one of the great Love Poets Pablo Neruda has a reall passion when he writes about Love…see what you think If You Forget Me I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my... »
Children of the 50’s 60’s and 70’s
21 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... This is pretty much plagiarised from an email I received, so if its your work, please tell me. It reminds me however of a line from A Gil Scott Heron Song: “Everyone wants to go back, even if its only as far as last week,…they don’t know if... »
A Poem for Christmas.
13 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Inside me (are three wise men) by Jonathan Spencer Inside me are people turned away from The warmth of the hearth In the town of their birth They have arrived But they are lost An uneasy silence settles A pregnant pause They are sent... »
Ancestors – Adrian Mitchell
6 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I read this recently poem on a poetry site, it was not one I knew of Adrian Mitchells and I love his work, but it stirred my soul and made me think, of all those people who want to beleive what they read in the press and what... »
Critical Flaws or Projection
6 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Presented with your flaws…its frightening (if you don’t like what I say tell me!!!) Do we ever truly listen, except perhaps to the bad stuff…and when we are presented with our flaws full on how can we both deal with it and learn from it In the process of seperation... »
Chief Seattles Reply (attributed to Ted Parry)
17 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... All though for many years this was said to be a speech by Chief Seattle, this is patently impossible, for example the chief never left the 50 mile area on which he was brought up and could never have seen a buffalo, or for that matter a train... »
Achilles and tendonitis
6 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Achilles was the son of the mortal Peleus, king of the Myrmidons in Phthia (southeast Thessaly), and the sea nymph Thetis. Zeus and Poseidon were rivals for the hand of Thetis. That is until Prometheus the fire bringer revealed that if one of these gods wed Thetis, she... »
Lewes Bonfire, Guy Fawkes, Novemeber 5th – 400 years
5 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Yes this year its the big one 400 years since the gunpowder plot and once again in Lewes there will be a charged, smokey, loud and riotous atmosphere. If you have never been before it is not for the fainthearted, neither is it truly politically correct, however, there has... »
Wait for Me – Konstantin Simonov
111 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Wait for Me ~ Konstantin Simonov I first heard this on the TV series World at War narrated by Laurence Olivier, and it has haunted me until tonight when I found out who the author was and then discovered a copy on the internet. It describes a Russian... »
Bonfire, Fireworks and Lewes, East Sussex
8 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Bonfire, Fireworks and Lewes, East Sussex, yes I have been involved, if only a little, in that I have marched with South Street Bonfire Society, this year its the 400 years celebration, and there will be the renewal of one of the old bonfire societies that had fallen... »
Lewes Bonfire and Guy Fawkes – November 5th
3 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Why not join a bonfire society this year, I have always marched with South Street, a smaller society but friendly and great if you have kids or want to join as a family…to find out more if you would like to Join South Street Bonfire Society use the... »
Music – Mary Oliver
16 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Mary Oliver (more) This is a marvelous evocation of the spirit of the god Pan, and a question of the freedom of the soul and physicality… Music Mary Oliver I tied together a few slender reeds, cut notches to breathe across and made such music you stood shock still and then followed as I wandered growing moment by... »
Little Gidding – T.S. Eliot
13 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Little Gidding is one of the most pwerful and spirtual poetic works of the twentieth century, its lines are dense with meaning and it needs a number of readings. Its englishness and its ordinaryness actually appear to elevate the spirit and feeling of the poem…read it and read... »
My life is boring
6 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... was life meant to be this tedious? (day in…day out) the same things day in day out, ok I know most of the time I talk about being constructive and positive, but tedium has its place too, but surely not day in day out…..mind you I do find Maralyn... »
Ways of Seeing – John Berger
16 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Ways of Seeing I first saw this in a one of repeat of BBC classic series, it was a TV series and a book by John Berger about art and art history but from a radical perspective, the most profound piece for me was when… In Ways of Seeing ... »
Ratings
- 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)