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A rather frightening and sobering thought occurred to me late yesterday evening. It was the 29th August, a date that will always stick in my memory, etched into my being for as long as I dwell upon this earth.
On August 29th 1984, I met and walked into a relationship that was to have the most [...]

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A prison was often not of walls when you are free.
A prison can be a place where you yourself can place thee.
A prison may be a state of mind that surrounds you.
A prison might be a frozen place for thoughts that haunt too.
A prison could be a place of silence, fears and tears.
A prison is [...]

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Sitting on the fence.
I don’t know which way to go. On the one hand I would like to jump off the fence and make my position clear. Yet, there are doubts and deep regrets if I make the leap. What am I talking about? It is my Christian faith that is the point of discussion here. [...]

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I watched the TV as the vote was announced. To my horror it was true. The new anti-terrorism legislation, where an individual can be held up to 42 days without charge, on suspicion of terroism  was passed. This video is the best I could find on YouTube discussing why this is a [...]

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I stare at my reflection in the water.
A calmness in the storm, my mind is strong and certain.
This image is a pond for the many eye that view
but for me, it conveys much more than anyone can know.
The reflection is like a crossroads for me, personal, painful.
But the calmness of the water fills me already with its healing [...]

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English and I have never had an easy relationship. That sounds a contradiction in kind, especially as my title is why I love writing. I passed my English O-level after three attempts, even though I did achieve the old style CSE grade 1 first time around. I wanted to pass the proper O-level, (as I [...]

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Sitting on a bus one afternoon, truddling through the minor village roads, I was reading a book. This book was being used for a course I have recently finished – which also explains my absence on here. Now you know there are times when you read something that the words hit you right on the nose, this [...]

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I have already written about my aim to learn to swim. The decision to stop writing each week an entry of progress was the right one, as I felt under too much pressure to perform. To be honest, the progress had been very slow and the biggest success was the ability to paddle around the [...]

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From the organisation of Avaaz. Please watch this YouTube presentation and vote for this film. I have posted it above,so no-one can be confused as to which entry it is, from the list shown on the link below from Avaaz. The word Avaaz means voice. Have you say: watch, listen, talk to [...]

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 Received mail from an organisation called Avaaz (see Below) which I have signed up for information via e-mail.
We have seen the Chinese before trying to ask for freedom from oppression and the results have been brutally obvious for all to see. China has one of the worst human rights record in the world.  [...]

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