Month: March 2026

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.. of the aluminium dinghy, vacuuming the Axminster or bathing the pigs. The watch’s movement is composed of either 686 or 694 parts (depending on whom you believe) that come together to form twelve of the most allegedly consequential horological complications**; the tourbillon, perpetual calendar, moon age, leap year cycle, day of the week, month,…

As a young person I read some of the writings of Carl Jung. There was a section in it that I couldn’t quite come to grips with about how inanimate objects are living, sentient beings in a living, sentient world. I think that my story demonstrates that my scraps dish and bread board, otherwise perfectly…

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..somehow there was a feeling of restrained animosity which no other religion engendered, probably because other religions existed only in the coloured pages of The National Geographic, in countries far removed and absolutely foreign. Many did not even speak English or wear proper trousers. To be frank, Christchurch in the 1950s and 1960s was not…

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I’m personally not convinced that vitamin supplements are a vital adjunct to modern living and I decided to give up taking vitamins more than twenty years ago with no noticeable ill effects – which didn’t entirely surprise me as they’d had no noticeable positive effects over the period I took them either. That’s not to…

..a bigger audience than TV. The second series ‘The Red Planet’, the one of which I have the best vague recollection, was optimistically set in the early ‘70s, a choice of era that showed a refreshing trust in the rapid and useful advance of technology heralded by the V1’s one-way trip from Peenemunde to London….