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No one is allowed to be a child
0 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... What have we done to our children, that they no longer are allowed to be children? Cossetted, protected, given everything, encouraged to gow up and mature so quickly. Yet their innocence rather than being in the majority taken by predators is corrupted in the home if not by... »
Ordinary Wisdom – Know the Difference
5 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... We are all one, but it is also important to understand that we all different and that difference is OK. Very often we criticise others because they are different, or they reflect a difference in ourselves that we dont like. Sometimes we seek out others like us, who think... »
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 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 : “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... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
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.... »
Knowledge from the Rose garden By Saadi
5 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... A philosopher was advising his children as follows: “Dear to me as life! acquire knowledge; for there is no reliance to be placed in worldly possessions, either of land or money. You cannot take rank abroad with you; and silver and gold on a journey occasion risk, and either... »
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... »
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.... »
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... »
Innoculation the battle over babies
18 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... So it nears the time and though I did not get my other two children vaccinated. It was because my ex-wife and I believed similar things. My new partner is a health professional AND INSISTS SHE WILL TAKE OUR CHILD TO BE VACCINATED. She will not read any... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
Divorce and a Man with children – the new baby
17 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... So as you may know, I am divorced and have two children. I met my new partner on a train (not on the internet..) and I was over at the Fathers Direct web site: http://www.fathersdirect.com/ and i came across this blog by a guy who is expecting... »
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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)