5am. Not a great time for my Mind to wake up. My Body objected. He just wanted to stay in the warmth and softness of the duvet. So his eyes registered the low numbers on the clock and transmitted this information to my Mind. Then he buried himself under the duvet, in the expectation that…
The Plausibility of Pistorius
Originally posted on Unwrapping The World:
I am fascinated by the whole Oscar Pistorius tragedy. Not because he is famous, not because he is an athlete and not because he has prosthetic legs. But because he has shot and killed another human (Reeva Steenkamp), confessed openly to this, whilst at the same time constructing almost…
Cotton Pickin’ Cotton
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Today we drove up from Lafayette past acres of Louisiana cotton fields. We stopped to pick a lil’ of that old cotton-pickin’ cotton. In my head the old song kept spinning and weaving . . When I was a little bitty baby, My mama used to rock me in…
Calming the restless Wind
“Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box“ sang Mr Lennon, ever so insightfully. How often our thoughts rattle and swirl uncontrollably inside the letter boxes of our minds. Like over-excitable children dancing around the playground playing tig; one thought triggering another, replacing another in a whole chain of chaos. Before you know…
A Life in Graphs #3 – Reducing Cheeselesterol
Fewer slices of cholesterol . . . .
Pietersen – a classic failure of leadership.
Where do you stand on Scottish Independence? Are you for or against? Dredging the Somerset Levels – yes or no? These dilemmas pale into insignificance against the big question of the week –Kevin Pietersen – sack or stay?
TRAPPED
On Tuesday, I was asked to travel to my customer’s Guernsey Office for a meeting with a supplier the next day. Fortunately (or not), the company plane was flying there at 8.15am from East Midlands. Then I could fly back to Southampton at lunchtime, work in our UK office and take the train back to…
And so that was Christmas . . .
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So that was Christmas and what have you done? Another year over, a new one just begun. So what have we done? I’m not sure whether John and Yoko’s annual question relates to Christmas or the whole year. Maybe both. The days of Christmas are soon over. The presents…
2014 – Time for Politics to Grow-up
Britain and the world face a bewildering set of challenges for 2014. And yet so many of these critical issues are presented in ridiculously simplistic and dogmatic terms.
I am not Redundant # 4 – Planting, Watering and Enjoying the Fruit
Have you suffered redundancy? Now is the time to start planting seeds for the future.
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