Rugby and what it teaches you about blogging successfully
I played Rugby at school and have kept a peripheral interest in the game since. Here in the UK at this time of year we are…
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broken door (large)
broken door, oil on canvas (approx. 25 X 35 cm)
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star
star, oil on board
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mmm!
sunflowers, oil on board
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Clucky
Clucky, oil on board
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Rick’s boat shed
Rick's boat shed, oil on board
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tree
tree, oil on board
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Dexter
Dexter, oil on board
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Messy Veggies
messy veggies, oil on board
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Broken Door
broken door, oil on board
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Peasant Art
I used to love painting at school, but overall I hated everything else about the place and the confinement. So despite my art teacher’s calls for me to stay at school to…
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Compete…Why?
Why do we do what we do? Sometimes we are so used to doing the things we do everyday, month, year that we lose track of why we are doing them. When something crops up that you…
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Don’t work…create
The traditional approach to life has become one where we work our little arses off for 40 years, vegetate for 5 years and then die…nice eh? The word tradition is a funny…
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Learning Chinese
Next month I’m heading off to southern China for 3 weeks to help on an education project related to the work I used to do full time. I worked in China as a consultant for a…
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solstice
A common cause of procrastination is the way we align our lives with the man made calendar. At this time of year, its easy to put off plans and projects until the new year…
How to Start a Purpose Driven Business
Many people give up hope of living the life they want to live at an early stage due to the pressures of having to pay the…
work
Attitudes to work are firmly lodged at the centre of any discussion about freedom. I was recently involved in such a discussion with some friends and…
plans
Many of us have been raised to believe that we must have a plan for our lives. Stick in at school, get good grades, go to…
lottery
How often have you heard the phrase, “when I win the lottery” ? Not so often I would bet, because the usual phrase that we…
Country Diary – December 2012
We have lived at the top of a hill in upland Perthshire for nearly 9 years. We are surrounded by rolling farmland and close to the…
Tuna farming in Japan
Interesting film here from The Perennial Plate. Although still not addressing all of the sustainability issues that are thrown up by fish farming or flesh farming…
orders
Inviting “Orders” is diametrically opposed to the idea of Freedom. Recently I have decided that to be truly free, my life (or more accurately my income…
money
I mentioned in a previous post that “the getting of money” a phrase borrowed from Chris McCully, was the single most quoted problem for people seeking…
mindful
Being mindful in the every day is a key Buddhist principle. I’m not a fully fledged Buddhist, but I do meditate a little and I do…