Vote with your Heart

Totnes elected Dr. Sarah Wollaston, a member of the Conservative party, as its Member of Parliament at the election of May 6, 2010. She is one of 139 women who are in the Houses of Parliament out of the 650 places. It is still a male dominated world despite all the verbal noise from politicians for an equal representation. …

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Match of the Day…

Kye, my nine year-old grandson, and I love football. When Torquay United play at home (and I am not overseas), we watch the match. We join the 3000 (yes, 3000 not 30,000) standing on the terraces in the relentless duality of being for one team and against the other. …

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Transition Towns, Transition Streets

My hometown, Totnes, has rebranded itself, not intentionally, of course, for the third time since I came to live here in 1982. It’s in transition, too. I knew next to nothing about Totnes when I came to live here with Gwanwyn Williams and our year-old daughter, Nshorna. …

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The heartbeat of the metred poem

In an earlier blog, I had written about my conversion of iambic pentameter as a beautiful form of poetry widely used in the English language – a metre of unstressed/stressed syllables. …

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