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One of the most exciting things about any sort of community is the opportunity to learn from others.  Before schools, universities, libraries, books and the internet; this was pretty much the only way we could learn anything.
Today we live in a world in which knowledge has become widely available, but a caveat is that the [...]

inconvenient or deadly?

Around this time of the year in 2006 - three years ago - Al Gore brought An Inconvenient Truth to the screen.  I find it hard to explain why it has taken me three years to see it.  Maybe it was because the Dark Knight was more exciting or Stardust was more romantic; maybe it [...]

facelift

After the work on the garden last week I decided to overhaul my blog.  It was time for it to have a bit of a facelift so in combination with a wordpress upgrade an the use of the the swiss army knife theme called Atahualpa: here we are.
Still needs a little bit of tweaking, but I’m [...]

green fingers

Everyone has pet hates about things right?  With homes that you share with others it can be particular habits of other occupants that are at the top of the list.  Fortunately for me, at my current house that is not a problem - my housemates are all lovely.  Instead it is the garden and oven [...]

Foghorn response

In today’s Guardian was a response to a comment article I discussed a couple of weeks ago.
Loud but not clear is clearly from the moderate atheist camp and isn’t anything surprising - worth a read if only for encouragement about where the atheist camp could head to.