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Essential Foot Care
I just thought I would write up my thoughts on something that I have come to take seriously when I’m travelling in Thailand. Of course when we are away from home we pack some essential toiletries and a few things … Continue reading
Fast Response Mk2
So, as promised here is a follow up on my relatively short fast of seven days. Yes – I know, some people call that an ‘extended fast’ but this post is all about how I feel about it. My current … Continue reading
Fast Response
Eating disorder trigger warning: This isn’t about being quick – it’s about not eating. And I don’t mean not eating for part of the day as in a Ramadan fast, or ‘intermittent fasting.’ I mean not eating anything at all … Continue reading
Birds of a Feather
The past couple of months have been filled with birds. We started with blue tits nesting in the box on a North facing wall in our small courtyard garden. The blackbirds then built a nest in a corner above the … Continue reading
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Tagged Blackbird, Blue tit, Garden birds, Nature, robin, wren
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Please give me a Placebo
This morning an article was published on the BBC News website: “Anti-depressants: Major study finds they work.” Apparently there has been some debate about this. “Scientists say they have settled one of medicine’s biggest debates after a huge study found … Continue reading
ArtSpring Gallery
For the last three years a group of local artists and craftspeople has organised an exhibition at the Tunnel Gallery at Tonbridge School called ArtSpring. Each time a disparate group of artists would turn up with work, there would be … Continue reading
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A Few Hours on the Patio
After a few days in bed with a dreadful headache it was a pleasure today to just spend a few hours fiddling with things on the patio. It’s how I used to spend a Saturday morning when I had a … Continue reading
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Video Art Exhibition
I thought I knew what video art was all about. Mostly a darkened room with a screen showing a loop of something tedious. Sit there for an age waiting for it to become interesting in some way only to find … Continue reading
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Tagged Exhibition, tonbridge, tonbridge school, video art
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Seed Order Day
January seems mostly to have been a month for doing unexciting, mundane things that I really didn’t want to be doing but had to be done all the same. Filing my tax return for example, changing gas and electricity supplier, … Continue reading
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Tagged allotment, seeds, squash, trifle
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Pantiles Pop-Up 2015
Tonbridge Creative is a local art group formed when a number of us started meeting in a local pub. This was motivated by an understanding that there is a good deal of quality work being produced in Tonbridge and the … Continue reading
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