Muesli and Other Grumbles
Muesli and other grumbles For years I made my own muesli. It was easy: to a base of rolled oats, wheat bran, and wheat [...]
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01, 2026
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01, 2026
Resolved
Are you resolved? Here we are at the beginning of the year, the time when convention suggests we should begin again by wiping the [...]
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12, 2025
Cruising
Cruising In an age when words take on increasingly diverse meanings, it can be challenging to make the nature of your intended topic clear. [...]
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12, 2025
Brick by Brick
Brick by Brick It must be a strange sight for a young child, to be confronted by a pile of plastic bricks, with no [...]
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11, 2025
Barges
Barges When I was at school, I discovered and loved Cargoes, a poem by John Masefield: Quinquereme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home [...]
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07, 2025
Dancing Cockatoos
DD60 - Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test Sometimes I read something that comes to me from ‘out of left field’. It’s an [...]
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04, 2025
The Alchemist
DD69 - The Alchemist There is a vast literature devoted to the business of ‘finding yourself’. One way is to overcome some demanding tests, [...]
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03, 2025
At Play In the Fields of the Lord
At Play in the Fields of the Lord There is little more fascinating than discovering and meeting with people from another culture, especially if [...]
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03, 2025
After Pooh
After Pooh And after Pooh, there was Piglet. If Winnie-the-Pooh was to offer an introduction to the world of Western philosophy, then his shy [...]
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12, 2024
Is Beauty natural
Is beauty natural? In 1833, two years into his five-year voyage on the HMS Beagle, a 24-year-old Charles Darwin wrote to his sister Catherine, entreating her [...]
