Today I was asked, “who wrote the bible”. Well, it’s a fascinating story and if you have an hour worth the effort to research. This is totally a historic interest not religious. And it is fascinating and the answer is based on identifying the writing styles of the original texts. Scholars Various scholars have given letters to each of the styles and looking at the use of...
Tonight on BBC one I can look forward to a, “Star Studded Pointless celebrating 100 years of the BBC”. I need it having just returned from a trip to our local Cooperative to purchase ingredients for my Special fried rice. Becca is out, and my 扬州炒饭, or Yáng zhōu chǎo fàn, is one of my two go to dishes, and to be clear, there are only two...
Come the Revolution and this is why. Glaziers Lane is in a small village called Easeborne in Sussex. It’s my family seat, not the big house but the slum where some 17 Glaziers lived in poverty, but with love and I suspect a lot of laughter. This is the estate gate house, now the Cowdray Estate farm shop featured on the C5 tv show. Every morning the...
There’s much talk on social media about human rights LGBTQ and Womens’ at the moment. I’ve contributed to the discussion myself. Rightly so, particularly of course rights for women, migrants and of course LGBTQ communities. I’d recommend that before anyone posts, a read of the amnesty international website is a valuable exercise. Especially a good look at your own country’s record. Any violation is abhorrent and there...
Fear is a very personal emotion. One only has to watch “I am a celebrity, get me out of here” to see just how personal. I think a viewer gets some idea of how debilitating fear can be and how it can affect your entire personality. Fear can make a person feel inadequate, guilty, worthless, and depressed. Especially when another human, a person with one of everything...
