In the year 2009, the Lord came unto Noah, who was now living in Australia ,
and said, ‘Once again, the earth has become wicked and over-populated, and
I see the end of all flesh before me.
Build another Ark and save 2 of every living thing along with a few good humans.’
He gave Noah the plans, saying, ‘You have 6 months to build the Ark before I
will start the unending rain for 40 days and 40 nights.’
Six months later, the Lord looked down and saw Noah weeping in his yard –
Johnny Nash
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.
Continue reading “Jane Austen and all that.”
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.
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?”
With one child at the start of GCSE courses and the other setting out on the way to A levels, with only one half term’s worth under their belts so far, we are fully aware that there will be a fair amount of homework set, and that some of this will be ‘holiday homework’. Continue reading “Procrastination”
Domingo sings Canio
It was not so much that they were kindred spirits, they were in fact quite different in temperament and outlook; Robert was more cerebral and preferred books and board games while John was gregarious and liked the outdoors. It was more a force of circumstance that had drawn them together and which provided the basis of their friendship. Theirs was a relatively isolated community and there were few other children with whom they could socialise. They could scarcely remember a time when they had not known each other and for much of their childhood, if they were not alone, they were in each other’s company. It was only when they went away to the same boarding school that they began to establish their own social independence, each with his preferred group of friends. During the holidays they would reconnect without any acrimony concerning their school alliances. They understood and respected each other’s differences. Continue reading “Wrecked”
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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