This morning, I made my final mortgage payment to the bank. For the first time since 1985 – forty years ago – I am mortgage…
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Absolutely! Here’s a longer, more thematically structured blog post with global flavour, references to cultural diversity, and your signature tone – warm, engaging, self-deprecating, and…
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Happy Founders’ Day and Thinking Day! It’s all about the apostrophe. Some would like one between the “r” and the “s”, to show possession by…
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There’s something about those of us born in the 1960s. A certain resilience. A knack for getting on with things. A way of navigating life’s…
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As the year draws to a close, I’m taking a moment to reflect on the past twelve months — a year filled with its fair…
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I no longer actively work with a Section, I do other things as a Scout volunteer, but I was a leader in UK Scouting throughout…
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I was chatting today to an old friend in Nairobi. We come from different backgrounds and different cultures. We disagree about many things, but we…
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For a whole host of reasons, I have become increasingly interested in the history of Teddy Bears – not something you’d normally expect of a…
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