I’d passed my driving test at age 17 and at age 18 I took possession of my first car – an old Mini Clubman (not the one shown here) with hydrolastic suspension – a mixture of 49% alcohol, 49% distilled water, and 1% each of two other additives to put people off drinking it! It was …
I spend a lot of time alone – you should try it sometime. Whilst most of us chase around to meet the stressful targets of our ‘spreadsheet living’ (a term I coined in 2004), some of us reside in stillness and contemplation – questioning those things th…
When one used to mention “spirituality” to most people, the usual things that came to mind were beardy old gurus from the East or “flower-power Hippies” from the West. Of course, it’s not really as clear-cut as that and there are now many things that d…
For most people on Planet Earth, physical reality, linear time, and the messages of media and rational science, are all anyone should need to live a good and worthwhile life. However, there are a growing number of people who feel that this is not the w…
A little while ago, I received a connection request through my LinkedIn site from Joe Vitale:”Hi Richard, I saw that we are both members of Mastering the Law of Attraction. I viewed your profile and based on your expertise and experience feel you …
A rather nice tree recently appeared at the YSP. Made of rusting iron, cast from pieces of actual trees, it is the work of a Chinese artist. Ai Weiwei (pronounced I way way) was born in Beijing in 1957, spent time in New York from 1981 and returne…
I spent 7 years at Penistone Grammar School, from 1972 to 1979.This is an aerial shot I took sometime around 1982 from a Cessna light aircraft at about 10:30 in the morning. I remember thinking at the time, that the playing field looked as if someone h…
Yesterday, I responded in a private message to a post on my facebook timeline. To my surprise, the message window appeared again seconds later with a reply. I say surprise, because the person I messaged is not only extremely well known in his field of …
Until a few months ago, I hadn’t realised how invasive TV advertising had become on Freeview channels. On the old terrestrial stations, 3 minutes of advertising during programme breaks was normal and whilst it was still annoying, most of us learnt to l…
A busy half term week started with collecting my daughter from the West Midlands and ended with putting up an exhibition of my Dad’s artwork in Cambridge.We arrived at St Michael’s Church, Trinity St, Cambridge, on Thursday 31 October at 4.15 pm. …
