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Missing Shade Of Blue
Nov 15, 20211 min read
EVs are NOT the answer
We are in the situation where Electric Vehicles are presented as a major solution to our transport needs. To me this is desperately short...
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Missing Shade Of Blue
Aug 5, 20202 min read
Cardiff to Bristol hydrogen cell ferry
This is a cut and paste from the BBC web site: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-53337557#:~:text=Plymouth%2Dbased%20luxury%20boat%20fi...
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Missing Shade Of Blue
Aug 2, 20202 min read
Million Mile Battery
News of a million mile battery is clearly very good for the Electric Vehicle market. This addresses one of the major issues with an EV:...
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Missing Shade Of Blue
Jun 26, 20203 min read
The Smartphone Problem
The unacknowledged inconsistencies within the lives of many radical 'activists' never ceases to amaze me. They are made more bizarre...
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Missing Shade Of Blue
Jun 25, 20202 min read
Benefits of longer-lasting electronics
www.eea.europa.eu/themes/waste/resource-efficiency/benefits-of-longer-lasting-electronics Shorter lifetimes and increased obsolescence...
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Missing Shade Of Blue
Jun 22, 20202 min read
Getting young women into charity shops
Using Charity shops is one of the most obvious and easy ways of living out all those standard eco living hashtags #secondhandfirst...
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Missing Shade Of Blue
Jun 17, 20202 min read
The technology required to be alternative!
I am passionate about repair, re-use, upcycle, build to last etc. But how is all this possible; how do I keep an 80 year old motorbike on...
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Missing Shade Of Blue
May 30, 20202 min read
Technology and the meaning crisis
It is generally accepted that at present we have a “mental health crisis” in Britain. This is almost certainly the result of multiple...
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Missing Shade Of Blue
May 29, 20202 min read
Rediscovering the Sabbath
The “Keep Sunday Special Campaign” of the eighties was presented by the opposition as Christian killjoys who want everything closed. It...
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Missing Shade Of Blue
May 28, 20202 min read
Alienation from technology
At some point during the late 20th century technology moved to a point where manufacture consists essentially of assembly of ‘black...
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Missing Shade Of Blue
May 27, 20204 min read
Work and the Bible
In the Genesis creation story we read that on making the first man and woman God blesses them and, as part of this blessing, tells them...
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Missing Shade Of Blue
May 19, 20201 min read
Making gives meaning
Making things is a great route to good mental health and general sense of wellbeing. It provides an enormous sense of meaning in our...
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Missing Shade Of Blue
May 15, 20202 min read
Money isn’t real - a JCB is
A piece of 30mm steel plate or a pig is about as real as it is possible to get. A milling machine turning a piece of steel into a...
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Missing Shade Of Blue
May 10, 20205 min read
My journey with ZaMM
I first read Zen and Art of Motocycle Maintenance in the 70s as a motorcycling book. One of the most vivid immediate thoughts on ZaMM was...
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Missing Shade Of Blue
May 8, 20202 min read
ZaMM Pirsig is riding the wrong bike
I have always thought that it ought to be Pirsig riding a BMW. John and Sylvia are OK on the BMW, maybe to be truly romantic it could be...
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Missing Shade Of Blue
May 5, 20201 min read
Golden opportunity for rethink
We wouldn’t wish pain, suffering and catastrophe on anyone whether individual, community, nation or the world. But when these come along...
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Missing Shade Of Blue
May 4, 20201 min read
Developing a Womble Ethic
Trying to cultivate a Wombles ethic in the young is incredibly difficult. Many are happy to engage with the standard virtue signalling...
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Missing Shade Of Blue
May 2, 20203 min read
Theology of Work
As Martin Luther famously never said: “The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making...
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Missing Shade Of Blue
May 1, 20201 min read
A 'green' SUV!
Any moves towards a sustainable future must be based on a sound anthropology. Most people are not suddenly going to turn into vegan...
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Missing Shade Of Blue
Apr 27, 20201 min read
Living with old quality
It is much easier to see just how shoddy is so much of modern life when working in the close of one of the finest medieval Cathedrals in...
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