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getting lost in the moral maze

I like the Big British Castle and I like Radio 4.  This evening I caught this weeks The Moral Maze (you can listen again from there) which was a debate roughly centred around religion vs. science.  As with everything it had extreme viewpoints but I felt that Lord Wilson had a fairly sensible balanced opinion.
Towards [...]

clarity

It’s been a week of clarity.  Most literally the sky across London was stunningly clear today.  From my work place near the top of the Gherkin it was possible to see for miles and miles and not think that London was choking in a cloud of mutation creating poison.
On other fronts I’ve been doing ‘productivity’ [...]

Unrequited love

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about unrequited love recently.  It’s a hobby of mine having been quite spectacularly on both sides during my life.
On the ‘receiving’ side there is a sadness and possibly even guilt at not being able to reciprocate - an element of feeling their pain.  Now, I can’t say I’ve [...]

Drafts, spring cleaning, Christmas, new year and resolutions

I had reached the end of 2007 having had a year that was not so much a change to all previous years but a heart stopping, gut wrenching roller coaster ride.  I’m not referring literally to the worlds tallest bungy jump or my white water rafting experience but rather the world being completely different [...]

Back to base

The week in Worcester was great.  Why?  Where to start…

There were a whole bunch more people to talk to and make friends with
There was a swimming pool on the base
We went into a game park, saw giraffes, climbed a dam, jumped 30ft off it into the water and ate incredibly fresh watermelon
The teaching was really [...]