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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... »
Getting home after a few drinks
16 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... On Saturday night, my wife and I went back to the country house hotel where we were married, because there had been a small mix up over food at the reception they had offered us a free meal and drinks at our convenience. This was at The Buxted Park... »
Setting out a civil marriage ceremony
142 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... »
5 truths about the internet
40 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... In Kurt Vonneguts Cats Cradle, I am sure it begins with something like…everything I am about to tell you is a lie. So they say the shops are taking a hammering because of the internet, well maybe like overpriced CDs that were hammered by iTunes its about time the... »
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... »
Why can’t white men dance
17 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... worrying this might be a bit racist or on a par with “White men can’t jump” …great escapist film by the way. So I asked Carmen, “but what about Justin Timberlake…” says Carmen…..I don’t mean someone who has had a choreographer, and a trainer and so on.... »
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... »
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... »
Freecycle vs Ebay
12 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... When I was a kid we “passed things on” and received things that others “passed on”; no money changed hands and we did not think any the less of ourselves or others because of it. Bikes, clothes, ornaments all went this way, and at the most we might... »
DNS
8 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Short for Domain Name System (or Service or Server), an Internet service that translates domain names (like www.jonathanspencer.net) into IP addresses. Domain names are alphabetic, thus they’re easier to remember. The Internet however, is really based on IP addresses. Every time you use a domain name, therefore, a DNS service... »
A fresh view on innoculations for babies and children
109 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... My mother said in an argument between a husband and wife, there is the person that is right…. and the husband. More seriously we discussed it. I have been adamant about vaccines for some time, and i still dont really know whether they work or not... »
Freecycle vs Ebay
11 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... When I was a kid we “passed things on” and received things that others “passed on”; no money changed hands and we did not think any the less of ourselves or others because of it. Bikes, clothes, ornaments all went this way, and at the most we... »
Freecycle vs Ebay – giving it all away
10 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... When I was a kid we “passed things on” and received things that others “passed on”; no money changed hands and we did not think any the less of ourselves or others because of it. Bikes, clothes, ornaments all went this way, and at the most we... »
Wise Words
9 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... We must be tolerant of other peoples religious views because all religions have much that is true about them, and we must combat ignorance by education; bigotry by tolerance and tyranny by teaching true liberty. This I believe is an old text from the Freemasons that predate the Grand... »
The Culture Of IT (it), The culture of “it”
5 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Have we finally created the IT culture where you are not an I or a you but an “it”? You have probably been there when something happens or somebody does something that subtly dehumanises those around them, anyone in the vicinity stops being he or she and become... »
The Templars
12 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Many years ago I read The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail, which recently got so much publicity through the DaVinci Code legal battle, Later as an antidote…. “The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail” (Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln) I read Umberto Eco’s Foucaults Pendulum, a superb satire... »
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,... »
A quiet hairdryer
61 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I work at home (wah)on a Wednesday, oh yes I know all the jokes, but I really do and I am more productive because of it. I am more productive not just on that day at home but also when I get back to my place of work. On... »
Upgrade you Mobile Phone…or NOT!
8 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... So I am on a monthly contract, which is covered by my employer, I have a perfectly good palm treo, however my contract has now lost all its freebies and discounts and is pushing me toward an upgrade as I have finished my contracted 12months. I know this is... »
Am I depressed?
8 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I can barely bring myself to write anything, I don’t really care about watching the telly, there are hundreds of channels and the lack of creativity and imagination is a powerful turn off, the problem is now I can’t be bothered to watch it if there was something... »
Fish Pie
15 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I used to love this recipe when I was a kid and made it from memory at the weekend so I thought I would write it up before i forget again: It is a lovely meal, easy to make (and eat) and is a great winter warmer OR a... »
Finally
2 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I got things sorted on this site, enough for people to grade posts to restrict some of the spam and to stop the number of people using this site as some kind of porn portal, or taking it over for gambling spam….I guess its because I happen to... »
Another wake up call
8 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... i have lived so long on the edge of society or perhps in the grey area and with a real sense of being alive that i had forgotten the soporific nature of buckling down to regular 9 to 5 work and living closer to the centre. I... »
Best place for Books on Mind Body and Spirit
5 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Last Christmas I found this site by accident and bought some books from them to send to my god daughter, Ia m just about to put in another order, in the mean time I have had their free “Cygnus Review”, a free magazine sent out to everyone buying... »
Get the company you work for to buy you a bike
6 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Uk tax break of up top 40% of the cost of a bike a tax free bike subsidised by the government and helped by your employer…yes its true. Cycle2Work was actually started in 1999 and enables basic rate tax payers to get a massive 40 % off the cost... »
Have a moan about your job
6 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... so what is it about work that gets me down, the lack of freedom, the rubbish wages, my inability to get a job which gives me both responsibility and that challenges and stretches me and uses my skills, intelligence and imagination. Or am I just going through... »
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)