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All in the Mind

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Imagination, creativity, psychology, it’s all in the conscious and the unconscious mind. We know ( or think we know ) how the conscious mind works, to the extent that we can even monitor brain activity in those parts of the … Continue reading

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Plots & Metaplots

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No, not the internecine conspiracies in White House or Westminster ( though there probably are some, now everyone is back from the summer hols ), but a quick trot through the theory of plots. There have been many attempts to … Continue reading

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He shouldn’t have parked there…..

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….he really shouldn’t have parked there. It’s that bit of Clapham Old Town where the buses turn around. On this particular day it was also that bit of Clapham Old Town where Clapham Summer Fayre was taking place. A Fire … Continue reading

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When is a tea towel not a tea towel?

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When it’s a book. Umm, well, sort of…… A book, or the form of the book which we now know, is a codex. This derives from the latin caudex, meaning stem or rootstock of  a tree and was the name … Continue reading

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Turn again, Dick Whittington

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London is a great place to live. I am always happy to return here after being away. Yet I grew up in a relatively rural environment. A village in fact. The sense of dislocation when one journeys from one to … Continue reading