Friday, 27 February 2009

W B Yeats - He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven

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I'm not too well-read on the poetry front, but a friend introduced me to this. It always moves me. Had I the heavens' embroidered c...
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Wednesday, 25 February 2009

Scaling the North Face of the Paper Mountain

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Here I am, sat at my desk planning my weekend paperwork with care and efficiency. My MA course workload has suddenly shot up - maybe I sho...
Tuesday, 17 February 2009

John Porte and the Flying-Boat

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One of my interests is aviation history. At the moment I'm researching the life and work of a man named John Porte. Here he is, standi...
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Technology Triumph

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I spent this morning at Uni in a 'special' class of one, alongside my tutor. The object was to plug this blog in to the Feedcat fee...
Monday, 9 February 2009

Asian Babes - Sponsored by Sony Ericsson

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I'm not terribly up on e-technology. With determined patience, my tutor at UCF has tried to explain to me the methods of smothering my ...
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Friday, 6 February 2009

Hob-Nobbing

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Last summer my band The Slaves played a gig at Chris Gray’s Troubador recording studio in Falmouth. This was part of the Falmouth Arts Week ...
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Sunday, 1 February 2009

Shop in The Name of Love

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I love Valentine's Day, though I never get any cards. That's not important. It's the laughable junk touted in the name in VD, as...
Monday, 26 January 2009

Cornish History

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For many years I’ve been a keen amateur student of Cornish history. I still enjoy the one-volume summary by Halliday, though it’s long in ...
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Thursday, 22 January 2009

My Friend at the Docks

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For twenty years I worked for multi-national companies on the commercial and contracts side of life, within the defence electronics industr...
Tuesday, 13 January 2009

Prisoner Cell Block 2

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Here we are then - back in the jug again. I had a month off between Blocks 1 and 2 of my course, to celebrate the festive season. Oh good. ...
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