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Personal theories are of no significance whatsoever
An astonishing turnout It is a month since my open Climate Change meeting: http://www.friendsinlowplaces.co.uk/OnceMore.htm The key point that has emerged for me during and since the meeting is that...
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Why make the effort?
We underestimate how important knowing that you might make a difference is to motivation.
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First with the news
I started this blog yesterday afternoon and was astonished to receive a ‘like’ almost immediately. And then another. This medium is powerful !
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‘Our Country’s Good’ at St James’ Theatre
Our Country’s Good was a great treat this afternoon at St. James’ Theatre, London. The production capitalised on the intimate atmosphere of this brand-new theatre, with the superb sound creating an...
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The Climate Week Declaration
Climate Week 2013 starts tomorrow and I have just signed the Climate Week Declaration. Here is the full wording. Britain must do all it can to create a secure, prosperous and sustainable future by...
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Climate Surfing – a selection of links
We tuned up the following list of links during our recent Climate Week 2013 event. I’m posting it here in case it is useful to anyone else. Concern about Climate Change * “How do we know the world is...
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Getting Streetview back in Google Maps
I have just solved a problem with the Maps app on my Samsung Galaxy I which was not answered in any of the advice I could find online. The problem was that I couldn’t find Google Streetview, even...
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Intermittent Fasting – DIY gastric banding?
An article in this week’s New Scientist tells us that the stomachs of competitive eaters become disgustingly distended “…Somewhere into the seventh [hot] dog, the normal eater reported to Metz that he...
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The sell-off of our National Health Service
I have to think they cannot understand What they have done; They cannot understand What made us tick. Perhaps they lack some vital cog Like cripples with important bits missing. I try to see that as...
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Intermittent Fasting – another thought
Further to last week’s item under this heading, it isn’t just the dietary pattern which means you never have a really empty stomach which would have been so unusual throughout most of our evolutionary...
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Notice of a talk about cutting edge renewable energy technology
The Energy Alton AGM will feature a talk by Richard Cochrane, designer of the helical wind turbines seen by millions in the Olympic Park last summer. He has since turned his attention to water...
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The surprising payoff while learning a big part for a play
I am nine weeks out from playing the part of Prospero in Alton Fringe Theatre‘s production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. And I want to write about the surprising fact that learning a part like this is...
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Buying an LP as a birthday present in the 1960s
BBC Radio 3 Breakfast came on at 6.25 as usual this morning, my wife’s birthday, in the middle of a movement of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto. An LP of which, strangely enough, was one of my first...
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The Tempest – growth towards freedom
Three weeks tonight we open Shakespeare’s Tempest at the Alton Maltings Centre. Me (Prospero) ‘giving’ Miranda to Ferdinand We took some publicity pics at yesterday’s rehearsal – some for the local...
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The Divided Brain… Iain McGilchrist
After reading Iain McGilchrist‘s extended essay The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning I was trying to summarise what it said, it being itself a summary of his great book The Master and His...
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A ray of light in the Isles of Orkney
The Stones of Stenness, Orkney Visiting Orkney – the islands just off John O’ Goats at the northern tip of Scotland – a few days ago, we were entranced, as every visitor is, by the 5,000 year old...
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The age of foolishness
A key change in the ‘new way of doing things’ is a wholesale substitution of externally-imposed rules for personal judgement and common sense. This is not so much a tyranny by the arbitrarily powerful...
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Imagine if Owen Paterson had been approached by asbestos deniers
Imagine if UK Secretary of State for the Environment Owen Paterson had been approached by lobbyists employed by the asbestos industry telling him that the science linking asbestos inhalation and the...
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Once More with Feeling anniversary
It is now a year since my climate change meeting in Alton Assembly Rooms. That means another year has slipped by since the talk which I had given seven years before that, which I felt compelled to...
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