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Jane Austen and all that.

It turns out, according to an Oxford academic, that Jane Austen was actually a very poor writer and her prose was ungrammatical, badly punctuated and had bad spelling.
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Fancy your own plane – now’s your chance…

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Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Leonardo da Vinci

Goodnight everyone, sleep well.

What Personality?

Hi there. Before I wade straight in here, since this is my first post on Boadicea’s Chariot, I thought it only polite to say hello.

I have my own WordPress blog, but have also been invited to contribute to this one so since, unlike mine, people actually seem to read this one occasionally I thought I’d give it a go.

My first offering isn’t especially exciting or controversial, which is probably best as Idon’t want to raise unrealistic hopes for the furture. Hope you like it though….

This week started off in a rather introspective manner as I attended a course largely based around the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment.

If you are not familiar with MBTI you are obviously starved of management courses as in my experience it is quite prevalent – this is the third time that I have been assessed using this psychometric technique. Based broadly on the work of the philosopher Carl Jung it seeks to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions. Continue reading “What Personality?”

Pagliacci

Domingo sings Canio

God is, obviously, an American

There was an event in Washington in August called ‘Restoring Honour.’ No idea what it was all about, but the organisers had planned a fly-past to start the event. The fly-past was banned on the grounds that the sky over Washington is a restricted airspace. And then this happened:

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Assumption

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
Margaret Thatcher

Goodnight everyone, sleep well.

The Last Mughal – The Fall of a Dynasty

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William Dalrymple’s latest book has won the Duff Cooper Prize for history. He writes well, and engagingly – a recommended read.

Trafalgar Day

Horatio Nelson : May the Great God, whom I worship, grant to my Country and for the benefit of Europe in general a great and glorious victory; and may no misconduct in anyone tarnish it; and may humanity after Victory be the predominant feature of the British fleet. For myself, individually, I commit my life to Him who made me, and may His blessing light upon my endeavours for serving my Country faithfully. To Him I resign myself and the just cause which is entrusted to me to defend. Amen. Amen. Amen.