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For the last few months, I have shared a Word of the Month with members of the Chesil Bank Writing Shed. On the basis there is always a good possibility I will forget those words already used, I have created a list with a brief explanation. The most recent is always at the top. Hyperbole: The…
I love a good notebook, and even though I spent over 30 years working in IT, there was always something about the feel of paper and pen. The act of writing words by hand is soothing and has helped me hugely over many years, but it has to be the right notebook and the right…
I still remember the day I discovered blogging. I was on a cruise in the mid-Atlantic, heading towards Morocco. It was the late 1990s, and I’d been running the Hysterectomy Association website for a few years. Every page on the website was hand-coded using Notepad, taking time I didn’t have to write the content, make sure…
Post Research Report In March and April 2025, I conducted a mini research project for a module in the MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology at UWTSD The topic I chose to study was self-censorship amongst contemporary astrologers. Below is an edited version of the essay submitted to the University for marking. Introduction This research…
