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ebook Download
The ebook contains every post on this website from its inception in March 2018 up to and including 3rd March 2026
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Beautiful Place, Beautiful People?
No, it didn’t quite work out like that, it never does. However Arcadian the setting, we humans will wreck it and fill it with the same petty miseries you find the world over. My biggest problem living up in the mountains for 8 years was probably Mr Mc Fukka. I was trying to help out…
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An Allegory of Man 1596
The painting warns the viewer of the soul’s vulnerability to the vanities of the world. It strikes me as a sort of 16th Century morality comic book. It’s a bit like a Tudor version of The Beano, where Dennis The Menace and Gnasher are tempting the saintly and wet Lord Snooty with all sorts of…
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William West, 1st Lord Delawarr
The somewhat brutal face and the arrogant pose of William West, 1st Lord Delawarr, reassures us that human nature has not changed much over the centuries. This portrait hangs in the 1540 Gallery at Tate Britain on Millbank, London, near the Palace of Westminster. The aggressive pose is similar to that used by Hans Holbein…
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Between the Cracks
I am frightened of homeless people. They remind me how all too easy it is in this world to simply fall between the cracks.
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Me and My Vulva
Well not mine actually – its just that I liked the headline. The Guardian’s article Me and My Vulva gave me pause for thought. And for the first time in a while encouraged me to put pen to paper. Photographer Laura Dodsworth, in a book and accompanying film for Channel 4, tells the stories of…
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Depression – Mind or Matter?
The state of depression is easy enough to describe but it is doubtful whether mere words manage to convey the depth of the misery to one who has never suffered from it.
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Quackery and Useless Twaddle
Why is so much of the internet “told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”?
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Conscious Nonsense
I am deeply disturbed to discover what a search on the word “consciousness” produces when you sift through Wordpress websites.
