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  • Apps – Rent or Buy?

    After returning this morning from a walk I found myself thinking about something that has been nagging me for a long time: do I take the plunge and buy software to replace what I have been using for 20 years, in order to save the monthly subscription?

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  • Distracted Politicians?

    What if… we followed the science and started building homes in 2000 that would provide a healthy and comfortable environment for the end of the 21st. century? Politicians failed to act – and continue to do so. They are all too easily distracted from science, facts, knowledge and evidence by the super-rich.

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  • Dark Times?

    My thoughts this morning turned to a lightbulb moment I had over ten years ago, when a convergence of disparate knowledge and insight led me to see parallels between a dark period in the distant past and the present.

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  • Who decides what is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty?

    Who decides what is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty?

    Two days on the Gower Peninsula evaluating the landscape. How can you apply a score to hills, valleys, lakes and rivers? I had no idea, but that is what we had to do.

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  • Let’s Build More Cold Homes!

    I was hoping to do almost nothing today but nearly all of my preferred activities are sedentary. It is cold – inside and out – and I am reminded of how we are incapable of building energy efficient homes, unlike so many other (colder) countries.

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  • Character Flaws?

    I am looking forward to venturing into town today after three weeks isolation at home. Why do I venture out so infrequently?

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