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Belief & Success
187 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Beleive I do not believe we can all pull ourselves up by our boot straps, There is a balance to be had between nature and nurture, love and will action and circumstance. As much as we find success it is our absolute responsibility to help and aid others, however… I... »
The New World order
21 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... “We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. … It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
Lost in the forest
11 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Sometimes said the man I am lost in a forest being shot by the trees in a war of attrition Perhaps I call out I can’t quite remember, In dreamy filled voice Of my own volition. And I follow the path that I’ve followed before Watching patterns of sun on the forest floor Perhaps I turn round and I... »
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... »
“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 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... »
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... »
Please Link to this site
7 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Link to me and i will put up a link to you, mention my site and I will mention yours, the more the merrier because the more links the better for the search engines to scan your website or web log…in fact the better for both of us.... »
The Eve of Destruction
21 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Don’t give up the spirit of power Listening to the sounds of the 60s on the Radio this morning, I was entranced by the sense of positive and directed energy that appeared in the lyrics, music and artists of this period…we can do so much more with this legacy These... »
Tax – a gift to the community
8 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Change the name of Tax to “gift to the community” then see what David Cameron looks like, saying “lets lower our gift to the community.” This came to me as I was commenting on someone elses blog. Tax needs revisioning and reframing, its a negative word, people see... »
Can the National Health service be sustained
5 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I think the NHS is at a crucial point in its history. A vast amount of money has been invested in it recently under this government. Yet the question has to be asked, does it provide the services people want in the way they want? If it doesn’t... »
affordable housing and death on our streets
11 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Gordon Brown has talked a fair bit about affordable housing and I think this is one of the answers to both poverty of aspiration, gangs and killings. Affordable housing needs to be part of mixed builds as they are at present but in greater numbers. So that 50-60% of... »
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.... »
The McCanns – What are they guilty of?
7 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Where is Maddie, are her parents involved, what really happened, what do you think, have your say. What is going on here. 2 people in their late thirties left their children, the eldest was 3, alone. Not teeneage mums on a sink estate but two middle-class doctors. In the... »
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... »
Barbara Allen
9 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... When I was a child I can remember my mother singing this, and when I was ill which I was often, with bronchitis and asthma, I used to ask her to sing it to me and it helped me sleep. Its an old ballad and there are many versions... »
If its on the internet it must be true
9 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Wikipedia and so i guess other big wiki projects are up for grabs as anyone can edit them. Then this guy invented some software to scan wikipedia to read the IP address of people editing a page and cross reference this to an IP cmpany address list... »
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.... »
No UK election before Troop Withdrawl
8 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... My suspicions are raised by the picture of a smiling Gordon Brown with George W Bush, two people further apart you could not imagine.My feelings of Mr Brown are very positive. Here is someone with infinite patience, who has waited in the wings with humility and understanding whilst... »
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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)