I’ve been on the BCorp trail for a few months now. In case you haven’t heard of them, BCorps are a business idea that it started in the USA. The B stands for benefit and a benefit corporation is a type of for-profit corporate entity that includes positive impact on society, workers, the community and … Continue reading BCorp revisited
Read the world
Image of Vaddey Ratner It’s a crazy idea I know but I get them from time to time. I read a lot, getting through two or three books a week, sometimes more. At the time I was reading ‘The Call of the Toad’ by Gunter Grass, a German author when I wondered if it would … Continue reading Read the world
Green housing
Wandering round the dust bowl that is Great Park with my grandchildren, one in a pushchair and the other free running, got me thinking about recycling. It’s strange how your mind wanders yet the building site is huge and seems to have been going on forever. It must be nearly twenty years now since the … Continue reading Green housing
Back on the horse
Image from Pintrest It’s a long time since I have been on a horse. It could have been either in my thirties or even in my teens. It’s not something that I get much chance to do. Apart from a brief flurry with my daughters when they were young, the closest I have come to … Continue reading Back on the horse
Diamond League
I’ve finally made it. It’s only taken me 2053 continuous days of practice but I have finally made it to the top of the leaderboard in Duolingo, the online language app. So that’s practicing languages every day for over five and a half years, Christmas day, New Year’s day, every day. I’ve studied Dutch, Spanish, … Continue reading Diamond League
Global alliances
Image thanks to Science News for Students Conflict comes from imbalance. Nobody likes injustice, when it affects them, yet the world is filled with injustice. The world’s resources are shared unfairly across its people in whichever way you look and the current political makeup of nation states, each able to set its own internal laws … Continue reading Global alliances
We can’t afford greed
Image thanks to Sevendeadlysins.com It is said that many a true word is spoken in jest and when it comes to the Prime Minister it is probably true. He lies so much of the time it is very hard to tell the wrong from right. Harry S Truman once said of Richard Nixon ‘He can … Continue reading We can’t afford greed
Battles with Duolingo
I have a love hate relationship with Duolingo, the online language learning site. I have used it for many years now to toy with learning various languages. I have had most success so far with Dutch and have recently started, as you may well already know, to learn Welsh. It is great fun and easy … Continue reading Battles with Duolingo
Learn Welsh
Image thanks to Cardiff University I have been fascinated by languages for a long time. I was going to say since I was very young but my passion really only started after I left school. I never understood the point of speaking another tongue when at school, everyone seemed to be speaking English and the … Continue reading Learn Welsh
Lovely postcards
Who doesn’t like to receive a postcard? I know I do. They remind me of places far away, with a hint of the exoitc and show that others are thinking about me. They are a topic that I have come back to time and time again throughout this blog running with several challenges and penning … Continue reading Lovely postcards
Thoughts from a Guerrilla Worker 