Why granny power and solar power are a natural fit, and why we need to get off our high horses and give up the idea of "saving" other nations:

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Originally posted by bobby1933 at Hooray for the U.K.'s Mass Observation Day

elaine4queen - mass observation day is this saturday

Thanks to e4q

No its not when everybody goes to church
or (as Elaine says) when we spy on one another.
Its when everyone who chooses to
tells the world who they are and what they are doing
and whether this day is typical for them.
Its not ( Read more... )

I do adore Rachel Maddow. She just keeps being made of win:

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Yet I continue to see people online dismissing Occupy Wall Street because "they don't have a single unifying  issue" or "they don't have any strong leaders" which would "make them credible". There's a lot of head scratching and "but what do they want"?

The Daily Telegraph yesterday went with ( Read more... )

I am reminded that the East Cheshire Hospice is once again doing its annual Midnight Walk in Macclesfield to raise funds.

A close relative was looked after there in her last days, and I cannot speak highly enough of the incredible work - provided absolutely free - done by all the staff there.

They are amazing people with true vocations.

23% of their ( Read more... )

• Having done basic reading, I like systems theory and emergence as an explainer of how humans interact with the Earth and Gods and the Living Cosmos/The Divine/The Big Wow

• OMG! Doctor Who last night!!!

• Want teagasms? Quinteassential. Srsly. I am a very, very happy woman right now

• British Quakers have a £5 online course called Becoming Friends, aimed at ( Read more... )

Not a lot, as it turns out. A whole 2 street parties in the entire town - and this a Tory stronghold since the year dot!

I can't find mention online or in the local rag of parades or other unwarranted, unsolicited public madness. A couple of schools are holding fetes for fund raising purposes, and a couple of pubs are doing special menus so people ( Read more... )

North Wales hillfort test of Iron Age communication


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( Sing-A-Long-a-Self-Help )

Light went on.

It just hit me like a hammer blow to the forehead that I've spent a long time thinking I couldn't do creative writing really, for lots of reasons, including:

• Perfectionism:  I have nothing - NOTHING! - to offer because 10 minutes and a starting rough draft later doesn't read like Alan Garner or Neil Gaiman or Sherri S Tepper or ( Read more... )

This is a wonderful short film about the cross section of people protesting in Wisconsin, and what is motivating them to stand together, in their own words:

Well, damn it, it shows up in draft and not when saved. So here's the link: http://www.yesmagazine.org/