This morning during breakfast my youngest daughter and I were discussing flags on the back of a conversation about the countries competing in the 2010 Fifa World Cup. I asked, “What are flags useful for?”, and she replied, “For the Queen’s Birthday” “Parades” “Sticking on the moon to say it’s yours” “Your planet” I then [...]
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No, I haven’t been lucky enough to spend a week with author Paulo Coehlo personally yet in a way I have. In his most recent Warrior of the Light newsletter he has shared a week’s worth of experiences with his readers. Sometimes readers complain that I say very little about my private life in this [...]
If you have read the “The Meaning of Liff” by Douglas Adams, you will know there are lots of meanings for which there are no words. How would you sum up a nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for. Adams chose the word “Aberystwyth” based on a town [...]
