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Dear Wen: ‘Molten-Minds’…

Dear Wen, There is no good reason why straight line thinking should be in charge, it is not only vacuum’s that nature abhors, and as anyone who served in the Roman (Acch phut!) Army will attest, marching in straight lines … Continue reading

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Dear Wen: ‘Old-Man-Young’…

Dear Wen One really cannot expect the authorities to know aught of these things, they lack imagination and insight. It strikes me that the ‘Stepping Stones’ and the ‘Sleeping Giant’ weekend may also have been the occasion of ‘Young James’? … Continue reading

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Middle of Nowhere…

After much to-ing and fro-ing of furniture… We had finally embarked upon our pre-tour of Wales and were approaching the border of our eventual destination although it would be some time before our actual arrival there… Road and more road… … Continue reading

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Dear Don: Cygnus

Dear Don, Mea culpa, I couldn’t help myself. You know what I’m like, being a Virgo and all… I had to look up the official etymology of ‘road’. Not, I will grant you, that ‘official’ necessarily means ‘correct’… or even … Continue reading

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Dear Wen: Cygnus…

Dear Wen Ah, yes, those pesky Romans (Acch phut) have a lot to answer for, covering our straight tracks, and calling them roads for one thing. And where, pray tell, did they get their name from? Why, from the Rods … Continue reading

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Dear Wen: Stepping Stones…

Dear Wen This clinging to the classical world has always puzzled me and can only be down to those pesky Romans (Acch-Phut)… When in Rome do as the Greeks do. This was over sixteen hundred years ago mind and ‘Pythagorean’ … Continue reading

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Dear Don: Superstitions…

Dear Don, ‘Standing under’ and ‘hanging over you’? The immediate image to arise was that of the Sword that was hung by a single strand of hair above the head of Damocles when he experienced the trappings of power for … Continue reading

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Moorings…

* We had watched the ferry moored as we waited to disembark. * And its something we do by habit down south… Always returning via Avebury. * Continue reading at France and Vincent

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Dear Wen: Superstitions…

Dear Wen, Understanding, for some, has been around for millenia… But is ‘standing under ‘ a concept the same thing as having a concept ‘hanging over you’ ? Or is that merely superstition? Sheep really shouldn’t be behaving in that … Continue reading

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The Matter of Britain…

* Could there be an image more redolent of the true majesty of these isles? * We are minded of the church at Kilpeck with its famous and resplendant Sheila… * The fact that we had failed to get here … Continue reading

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