Thursday, May 18, 2017

Cultural Amnesia; and Common Endeavour

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For the past ten years I’ve been lucky enough to have a foot in both Bulgaria and Romania, spending most summers in my Carpathian mountain...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

The Commons

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It was some months ago that I first mentioned the P2P Foundation  which sends me at least a couple of interesting posts daily eg here and...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

The Solidarity Economy

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Some time ago I shared an excellent couple of diagrams about the ills of our present socio-economic system and how it might be changed ...
Sunday, May 14, 2017

Journals worth Reading?

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A few weeks back I made a nasty crack about the superficiality of newspaper coverag e. Some personal exchanges I’ve had since have raise...
Sunday, May 7, 2017

Some Landmarks for the blog

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Blog traffic has been increasing here – hitting 10,000 last month for the first time (a 3-fold increase since last year) and now totaling ...
Friday, May 5, 2017

An Ode to the Palate

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After 10 years (this September) of living in Bulgaria (alternately with Romania), I thought I knew my Bulgarian wines – at least the whi...
Thursday, May 4, 2017

Interlude

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I had a welcome visit last week from one of my daughters – the reason for my blog silence. A round trip to Koprivshitsa , the old town o...
Monday, April 24, 2017

Denial, Distraction and Despair

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What the corporate media considers important are, for this blog, mere farts……hot air and smelly…… The last post was the blog’s first r...