Opinion
The Luddite Hypothesis
We all know that the Luddites smashed mechanical looms to save their craft based jobs. We also know that they failed to stop weaving automation, but...
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Kali Yuga 2025

This is a retread of an older poem; and I felt I had to finish it to stop me sinking further into despair.The worst of it is that we have close friends in the U.S. who are telling us that they no longer recognise their own country. And no guessing who the hurdy-gurdy man is. (Image courtesy of Wolfgang Eckert from Pixabay)
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EXPERIMENTING.

Over the last ten years or so, I have had a cough. About 10 years ago I had a bad cough, for a long time, and antibiotics couldn’t shift it! The...
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BITING THE BULLET.

Dementia is no joke! I have met people with dementia and my Mum has it. Because Mum has dementia, I decided to eat olives. When I first started to...
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FUND.

Finaly, it seems I have found the perfect site to sell all my clothes, bags, and shoes! Meghan set me up on it last week, and very quickly I sold my...
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FRIENDS.

Had a lovely text this morning from a friend Holly, to say, “We are arranging a surprise birthday party for Masie.” I thought, how lovely, she SO...
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LUXURY.

Ten thousand steps are the recommendation, over the past week I have certainly done more than that a day. My car has been in the garage about two...
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UNSEEN.

I remember when I was fourteen, and was reading the book Run Baby Run by Nicky Cruz. There was a word in the book I didn’t understand, it was SOB. I...
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The Glass Ceiling
For a lot of people in the West, science has replaced religion as their explanatory 'bedrock'. They believe in it with the same unquestioning faith...
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Testimony.

Testimony is not a word you hear often now in every day life. When I was growing up, it was a word we all knew and understood what it meant, from an...
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