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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... »
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... »
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... »
NHS Mangers and Management
16 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Clinical staff aside, who would take a job in NHS management or administration, especially in the lower and mid reaches of this management structure? You only have to look at recent public consultation exercises to relaise what a difficult job this is. What targets do these people have, what... »
The hundredth monkey Principle – what does it mean for us?
24 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... (from the book “The Hundredth Monkey” by Ken Keyes, jr.) The Japanese monkey, Macaca fuscata, had been observed in the wild for a period of over 30 years. In 1952, on the island of Koshima, scientists were providing monkeys with sweet potatoes dropped in the sand. The monkeys liked the... »
Violence on the streets
10 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... All this violence on the streets, raises a number of questions that i think we are afraid of, and they are to do with what we do with violent criminals, how we police violence and back to many posts about community…why does this violence continue to happen.... »
Selection in Schools – Grammar schools
11 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Like David Cameron I am the parent of a child with a disability, one that also gives a mild learning difficulty. I have listened carefully and read much of the arguments of the supporters of selective schools in the public sector. The supporters of grammar schools continue to... »
Definition of a human being – by Robert Heinlein
17 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new... »
Allergy, food intolerance and chickpeas
429 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... In some ways this is a long story and in others short…last year in Greece I had an upset stomach for a few days, mostly feeling incredibly bloated and heavy and need ing to go to the lavatory alot, so nothing unusual there for many travellers (sorry if... »
Other peoples opinion – of You!
4 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... It is said that what other people think about you is their problem. However what I want to discuss is how we come to understand (actually mostly guess) what other people think of us; especially when we think those thoughts are negative. How do we know someone, for... »
Best Books for Mac Users
6 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Mac OS X Unleashed Written by John Ray and William C. Ray, and published by Sams, this book is a comprehensive and excellent source of information about Mac OS X. The authors make a particular effort to explain the BSD and Unix underpinnings of Mac OS X. Though written... »
A New Baby – Colic
36 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Perhaps I spoke too soon , as our baby continued not to sleep and to exhibit signs of digestion discomfort and colic. We began to realise that when she did sleep this was due to total exhaustion (imagine how we felt) and whilst in all other respects she... »
Babies: The first 3 weeks
16 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Every child is different, their pregnancy is different, their birth is different and their parents are different, so this is not “The Truth” is a truth as it worked for me. The birth was luckily short and we were home with our Baby Isis isabel by the end of... »
What to eat and drink during pregnancy?
60 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... So can anyone tell me what is safe or not to eat during pregnancy? Alcohol which some say is a ‘no no’ others say you can drink a few glasses a week but never to excess, Liver and other foods including mould encrusted or matured cheese are also... »
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... »
We need to do something about government…
9 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... The last week has seen the UK government under increased attack from it opponents and it has tended to look rather shabby and corrupt in the press, but more and more I am wondering how much is true and are these matters for which Ministers should resign? Lets take... »
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... »
45 minutes of work in wordpress lost and more on Alfie
8 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... so i wrote a brilliant article on the NHS took 45 minutes and then my browser crashed, so I installed twilight autosave: it works a treat as i have tested it, however it wont bring back my article. if you use wordpress and want to try it... »
Mullah Nasruddin
3 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... The Mullahs Arms. Mullah Nasrudin began a long journey armed with a saber and a spear. Along the way, a bandit armed with nothing more than a cane jumped him and took his belongings from him. When he arrived at the next city, he told his friends of his... »
The Story of The Islanders
34 views (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ... The islanders This story I first saw in one of idries shahs books, it is an interesting allegory and more… The Islanders(Idries Shah) Once upon a time there lived an ideal community in a far-off land. Its members had no fears as we now know... »
Voting Conservative – The Thatcher Legacy
8 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... The Legacy of Mrs Thatcher and 1980s Right Wing Government There has been much said recently about the legacy of Mrs Thatcher, Thatcherism, Reaganomics and so on, because it was 25 years since her conservative government was elected in the UK. Often we hear of the wonderful... »
Should I get my child vaccinated?
48 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Should you get your children innoculated or vaccinated? They couldn’t let him get away with it, the governments and the large pharmaceutical companies. Six years ago when an article was published in the Lancet, linking the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine to autism and stomach problems people woke... »
Snobbery
8 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Where you live Where ever you go there you are, is the Bhuddist saying, but I recieved this from a Friend, and it got me thinking “I wished that I had been told That a ‘downbeat’ neighbourhood is exactly that, I would move to a Hampstead or Dulwich... »
Speak Truth to Power
6 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Honest Communication Our ability to communicate at all levels, is not something we can put aside, let slip, lose focus on, its not an art, or a science its a necessity. It seems to me that many of our problems, and challenges in modern society, across the globe come from... »
Getting Your Priorities Right, what are you priorities?
6 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... What is important in your life So I was told this little story about a friend who went into starbucks in Fulham for a coffee, the woman next to him pushing him to move along, edging into his space, and then having bought his coffee, she moves to the... »
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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)