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Painted on the south wall of the bridge at the top of Water Lane in Stratford, is this piece of graffiti: It is a quote from the Romanian-French [...]
December 25, 2022
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For centuries, to be Christian – in fact, to live any kind of human life productively, was to be agrarian. To live and thrive you accepted [...]
December 22, 2022
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Sandwiched between the back of the main library in Milton Keynes and a car park is a mound of earth adorned by three oak trees. This is the [...]
December 21, 2022
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Because so much emotional content around Christmas is sentimental guff and a rosé tinted (pun intended) and commercial nostalgia, it is easy to [...]
December 21, 2022
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I started this post three weeks ago, before the Avanti West Coast train company management could blame their inability to find train crew for [...]
December 20, 2022
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This wonderful parody of Philippians 4:13 was sent to me by a friend and fellow doctoral student who is both a pastor of a church and a manager [...]
December 14, 2022
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In the hot Turkish summer of 2006, I and a group of teachers from schools and pre-schools in Shawbury and Stafford (UK), Bad Oeynhausen [...]
December 13, 2022
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I have just finished reading, for the second time through (once was just not enough) Lucy Beckett’s wonderful novel of the English [...]
December 10, 2022
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Just finished the most wonderful day in the presence of nine professional doctorate (Ed.D.) students who this year have begun their educational [...]
December 10, 2022
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In 1878, Johannes Brahms wrote his violin concerto, a piece of serious difficulty, for his friend Joseph Joachim. Shortly after the premiere, [...]
December 9, 2022