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Continue reading →: Moving house
We are moving out of our house to make way for the contractors who will carry out the much-needed renovation work. Luckily we found a house to rent just round the corner that is unfinished and pretty much the same design as ours. Most of the hard work has been…
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Continue reading →: Six Nations
If you like rugby, the six nations championship is a great competition. France and Ireland are the favourites, but Scotland are in with a shout. Italy have come on a lot in recent years and Wales have not found their form. England can still spoil the party for Grand Slam…
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Continue reading →: One nation or what?
One Nation Conservatives have failed to endorse either of the two remaining candidates for leader of the Conservative party. This group of MPs used to be more influential within the party, then came Brexit and a lurch to the right. Given the class system and social inequality in the UK…
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Continue reading →: Pizza
I am finding Paul Hollywood’s book How to Bake an easy guide to baking bread. My next step is to try his recipe for pizza. I have all the ingredients except for sourdough starter. I’ve seen it somewhere in Belfast l, probably Sainsbury’s, they seem to have most things on…
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Continue reading →: Art as communication
Philip Larkin 2002 “you write because you have to. If you rationalise it, it seems as if you’ve seen this sight, felt this feeling, had this vision, and have got to find a combination of words that will preserve it by setting it off in other people. The duty is…
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Continue reading →: Fictional emotions
Why do we cry during sad movies like Philadelphia or Beaches? We know that the characters aren’t real and yet we get emotionally invested in the story lines. This is one of the paradoxes we are studying in Book 1, Truth in Fiction, of my distance learning course with the…
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Continue reading →: Are all cultures equally valid?
Let’s start with a definition of valid: based on truth or reason…my way of thinking may be different from yours, but it’s equally valid (Cambridge Dictionary). Kemi Badenoch, who is standing for leadership of the Conservative party, has written an article in today’s Sunday Telegraph emphasising the need for better…
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