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The Indulgency Pattern · 4M ago

The Alchemist and the Naked Presenter

Round 3 brings The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho from 2001 and The Naked Presenter by Garr Reynolds. Generally I don’t go in for the spiritual category that Coelho tends to fall into. This was the first of his books I read and although I have read a few more in the last 10 years I [...]
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The Indulgency Pattern · 4M ago

Then and Now Reading Habits, starting the year

In 2001 I started the year by reading The Horizontal Instrument by Christopher Wilkins. This is a wonderful novel about a man who looses his wife to a slow disease which takes her mind before it takes her body. The man decides to honour her memory by building a perfectly accurate timepiece. In 2011
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The Indulgency Pattern · 4M ago

Reading habits to be embarrassed by

It’s the end of another year and with this post, hopefully the end of a gap in my writing. It is perhaps fitting then that I talk not about writing but reading. It turns out that in terms of my own reading habits, 2011 was not a vintage year. In fact it was the worst [...]
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The Indulgency Pattern · 9M ago

The distractions and production of writing

I will finish and publish this blog post using on WordPress. Wordtwit will publish this to my twitter stream which thanks to Twitter Widget Pro will appear back in the sidebar of my blog. Thanks to Networked Blogs the post will also appear on my Facebook page where people can comment and/or like the
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The Indulgency Pattern · 10M ago

The Name of the Day

It’s funny how the name ‘Dawn’ seems normal, but her etymological siblings are not. For example, the only people I can think of called ‘Sunset’ are found in the colourful literature of sixties hippy culture. ‘Twilight’ is probably there too and clearly a free-spirit. Mind you, if she were my daughte
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The Indulgency Pattern · 1Y ago

Time to face the music ?

The other day I read about a friend who decided to build himself a mandolin this summer. A fascinating project; which reminded me of my own little project that has been permeating around my head for a while. Over the last few years I have found myself shifting from the traditional corporate career p
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The Indulgency Pattern · 1Y ago

Time to face the music ?

The other day I read about a friend who decided to build himself a mandolin this summer. A fascinating project; which reminded me of my own little project that has been permeating around my head for a while. Over the last few years I have found myself shifting from the traditional corporate career p
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The Indulgency Pattern · 1Y ago

The Streets of San Francisco – Episode 1

The Streets of San Francisco …An Indulgency Pattern Production … Starring…RightAntler Special Guest Star …LeftAntler Also StarringMembers of the Public Tonight’s EpisodeArrival Every since I was a kid the Streets of San Francisco have been in my mind. The title sequence above is all I remember and t
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The Indulgency Pattern · 1Y ago

The Streets of San Francisco – Episode 1

The Streets of San Francisco …An Indulgency Pattern Production … Starring…RightAntler Special Guest Star …LeftAntler Also StarringMembers of the Public Tonight’s EpisodeArrival Every since I was a kid the Streets of San Francisco have been in my mind. The title sequence above is all I remember and t
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The Indulgency Pattern · 1Y ago

The trials of making a bacon sandwich

I bought a pack of rather splendid looking bacon. I cut open the packet and realized the individual pieces were too long for oven dish I wanted to use. Still nothing as trivial gets in the way of a bacon sandwich and I loaded up the dish. Safely under way, I turned my attention to [...]
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