Sunday, August 30, 2015

Rural life in the early part of the century

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One of my great fortunes in life is to have a mountain house which had stood empty for more than a decade when we first clapped eyes on ...
Saturday, August 29, 2015

Working Across Cultures - how it expands the mind

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I opened a veritable Pandora’s Box of personal memories this week – with the post on memoirs…….. Then remembered a stack of large notebo...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Intimations of Mortality

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Those of us who enjoy good health don’t give a moment’s thought to the prospect of growing old and frail. Making a will should be a wake...
Monday, August 24, 2015

Facing up to our Mortality

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About once a year a book has me on the edge of the seat and really challenged - Being Mortal – illness, medicine and what matters in the e...
Saturday, August 22, 2015

The Art of the Memoir

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Politicians have given narcissism a bad name - the story-line of too many of their autobiographies being "Look what I achieved - des...
Friday, August 21, 2015

Waste and Needs - where is the Imagination?

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The young need hope to survive – but so many of Europe’s young people live in a hopeless situation – well-educated but fighting for jobs...
Sunday, August 16, 2015

Challenging TINA and the "Comfort Zone"

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This blog has a policy of not commenting on current affairs but, given what I have written about political systems, it would be strange in...
Friday, August 14, 2015

Fast Reading - Ten Tricks

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I’ve reached the last chapter of Easterly’s The Tyranny of Experts and have great sympathy with a review which starts - I wanted to lo...