The title is a butchered CS Lewis quote but I think you get the message. One of the things adolescents fear is looking childish, I think children themselves feel shame if someone accuses them of being acting like a child, despite being a child a quality of being young and something to be enjoyed. Not …
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Three good causes…
Most of my work is tongue in cheek and flippant. I try to make useful points but I am far too English to be serious. This prompt calls for me to use my imagination and I have done so thinking in terms of my real interests in the world. I have a heart for the …
If you want to do it twice you need a parachute to skydive…
The title to this blog is absolutely true, if you want to do sky diving twice you need a parachute. You can go once and will have the ride of what is left of your life but I could never do that. I would be terrified. In fact I would also be terrified of jumping …
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I’m shy, look at me, LOOK AT ME!
Long time readers will probably be surprised to learn that I am in fact a very shy man. I work in schools performing in front of sixty to ninety children at a time, I recite poetry to audiences and regularly (whenever I am allowed too) do Pecha Kucha talks but despite my performing personality I …
To change is to live in time, to never change risks stagnancy…
Human beings live in time and on a planet that changes with the seasons whether we want it to or not. Some seasons are warm, hot or cold and they roll around like clockwork. If we did not change to suit our world then we would dress inappropriately to the weather, eat and drink out …
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Tolkien Art – Representation and Interpretation
Art appreciation is a skill that I am very proud of and whilst I am a disappointment on the creative side I have strong ideas about what makes good art and what makes bad art. Good art in my opinion requires something to say and the ability to say it. Bad art at worst doesn’t …
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I was brought up in the pre-computer age… when pen and paper ruled the world.
Despite being the venerable age of forty six I regularly work with children and the teachers who herd them. Most of these teachers with born in the 1990s, some in this century and have little to no conception of the world before computers. I was born in 1978 and the computer was a magical mystical …
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Warhammer, books and writing
We are very blessed in the 21st century West to have so much free time that we can ask what our FAVOURITE hobby or pastime it. I think of my Grandparents who got to work early, worked, returned home and then went out again to study at the local college. In my own world I …
This is not a place for you…
Ever since 1990 I have been an avid fan of Warhammer 40k. I was entranced by the models and by the art. As a student I struggled to read but I lapped up Warhammer lore. It was life changing and even sublime. I remember it very clearly, the first time I owned a Space Marine …
Watch your hats…
When Bilbo Baggins left Hobbiton for the second time after his birthday party he left presents. One of the presents was a waste paper bin for his aunt who had written him reams of advice for decades. Advice in Tolkiens world is a dangerous thing not to be given or taken lightly. Frodo says “do …