• ebook Download

    ebook Download

    The ebook contains every post on this website from its inception in March 2018 up to and including 3rd March 2026

  • Nosce Te Ipsum

    Nosce Te Ipsum

    Can we ever know ourselves? And what is there to know?

  • A Road Less Traveled

    A Road Less Traveled

    If we seek reality, I am told that we look in the wrong direction by obsessing over the human condition. I think that is right.

  • So, ecumenism is bad for society?

    So, ecumenism is bad for society?

    I was sad to come across a post on the internet entitled “The Ecumenical Slope” whose author is both anti ecumenism and pacifism and who appears to believe that such doctrines destroy “character”.

  • I’m off to Narnia

    I’m off to Narnia

    When it comes to parallel universes, it does not get much better than Narnia. Where better to escape the troubles of a world which at times feel overwhelming.

  • Glimpses of “Truth”

    Glimpses of “Truth”

    Enjoying the cool spring sunshine this morning, I had a moment of truth as my eye was caught by dew drops in the long grass. I was sitting in our beautiful patch of wild meadow at the bottom of the garden.

  • Edge of the World

    Edge of the World

    I wonder if this is what it felt like during the phoney war in 1939? A period of almost surrealistic calm before the horrors of world War II really began.

  • Preparing for the Apocalypse

    Preparing for the Apocalypse

    I’m pretty relaxed about the whole thing and since I have self isolated now for nigh on 30 years, I’m not too bothered about keeping myself to myself. If the writing is on the wall, so be it.

  • William Blake – The Lamb and The Tyger

    William Blake – The Lamb and The Tyger

    I decided to read and record two poems from William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience. I chose the Lamb from the Songs of Innocence and its counterpart the Tyger from the Songs of Experience.

  • An Introduction

    An Introduction

    I am starting a podcast and those who are in the know tell me I must introduce myself. So here goes.

  • Doing it Differently

    Doing it Differently

    Breaking up my routine seems to add enormously to my well-being. While I might not persuade my wife to let me go trekking in the Empty Quarter, even mild change can be very beneficial.