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I’ve got a bee in my bonnet and of late it has got more and more active. Someone’s got to help!

Now I pride myself on not being a pedant on subjects linguistic. Your pronunciation of pronunciation is no concern of mine. I’m as prone as the next person to completely overlook the odd split infinitive. If U chooz to use groovy SMS spelling in your txt, I’ll LOL with you.

In fact, overall, I’m quite comfortable with the whole ‘language is a living thing’ thing.

But every man has his limit and I’ve got mine … and perhaps by now you’ve got what I’m saying? No? Then read this, [click to continue…]

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What Matters Now

Always nagging in the back of my mind is the notion that the world is a lot more simple than we tend to make it. (It is because of this that, over the years, I’ve been an advocate for simplicity.) To see how complicated we imagine life to be, take a look at the Self-Help and Business sections of any bookshop. The shelves froth with titles claiming to solve one, or all, of the various challenges available to us.

Then along comes a neat package like Seth Godin’s latest free e-book venture: What Matters Now. This book reminds me that life isn’t that complicated after all. Most of the answers do exist – it’s just that we consistently ignore them.

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Google Earth or Real Earth? I’m Getting Confused

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One of my very favourite cartoons is Michael Leunig’s ‘TV sunrise’. The picture of a father and son watching the sunset on television while the real thing happens just outside the window seems to capture the essence of modern life. The only problem with the cartoon is that it is a bit dated. I mean, [...]

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The Beginning of the End? Fears for America

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I know it’s unfashionable. I’m not American, but I love America. Right now, however, I’m concerned that we are seeing the beginnings of permanent decline in the great American empire.
Let’s start positive. Why do I love the US of A? Well I don’t love it in that crazy,  flag-waving hand-on-heart, gooey way that Americans love [...]

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“Up in the Air” Cracks the Ice

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“There’s a law of diminishing returns on preaching”. So said author Kate Grenville in a thought provoking lecture, ‘Writers in a Time of Change’, in 2009*. Yet everyday, in thousands of blog posts and columns all over the world, preaching is exactly what many very earnest writers do. I do it myself – often. There [...]

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I ♥ My Flatscreen TV

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We resisted for a long time. For years I’ve been mocking everyone else for putting a big flat box out with their rubbish, signalling submission to the big flat TV trend. I was noble. The old telly still worked, so why get rid of it? And TV isn’t a big priority in our house. And [...]

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Chill Out, Slow Down and Live Longer: a Hope for the New Decade

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While waiting to cross a road yesterday, I watched a cyclist do a perfectly legal and correct right-hand turn. The bike stayed to the outside of the lane but even there he caused the car behind him to pause for a moment before it could turn. The car then took its turn, the driver planting [...]

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Why Technology will Never Replace the Knowledge of Elders

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It was a crafty weekend at our house. I was house-painting – a job that is going to keep me going for many months. Our youngest daughter was making soap for Christmas presents. And my wife and eldest daughter were working together as said daughter had her first introduction to serious needlework. It got me [...]

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Climate Change Straight Talk from Unlikely Sources

15000 delegates are currently sitting in Copenhagen and thrashing out some sort of agreement on how humanity might be saved from the effects of climate change. That’s a mighty big committee. Let’s hope all the hot air that will be exhaled over the next fortnight is being captured and put to good use.
I must say [...]

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Inspiration from a Deaf, Nutty Genius

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A deaf bloke with dubious personal hygiene. A complete nutter who died nearly 200 years ago. And a modern day inspiration for artists and business people alike. All in the same person. Who’d have thunk it? But Beethoven was, and is, all of those things.
In Search of Beethoven is an engrossing new feature length documentary [...]

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