When i was diagnosed with cancer in March 2015 i realised that i wasn't the invincible person that I honestly believed that I was. I selfishly believed that i was immune to getting cancer, purely because it isn't an hereditary thing in my family. But when reality finally hit home and I seen the amount of people on my journeys to chemotherapy and the likes I realised that i certainly was not alone with cancer, and so I thought that I would like to share my story of the year and a half of a living hell trying to get cured of this God sent disease.
Short visits to Laugharne,Tenby, Pontardawe, Pembrokeshire, and Glamorgan respectively. This is my short memoir of a truncated visit to the aforementioned towns and counties of South Wales in December 2013.
This intended trip was to attempt a very long walk along the Lincolnshire Coastline at an area near Cleethorpes. Whether or not I complete it, you will have to read and find out. These lines are more for the lover of a little memoir reading and a spot of humour.
This is basically a sequel to short story called 'That walk' that I wrote the previous year. I returned to Cleethorpes once again to complete that long walk that I failed to achieve back then, and this time I was determined to conquer my quest. These are my memoirs of my return, and also to find a little more history of Cleethorpes and its surroundings.
This is the memoirs of an ordinary person, but by one who witnessed the hardships of a life of poverty and other misdemeanours of living in a household that contained eight children. This is a story of a boy who had religion rammed down his throat, only to eventually despise God and Christianity the more it was pushed towards him. P.S. Do excuse the grammar; I have written this book myself and wished for it to be told by me, and not have anything added on by other sources.
After losing my fourteen year old son to a long time illness in 2000, I felt that I needed to get away from the interfering sympathetic people. Although it was in the heart of a cold winter, plus friends and family advising me that camping out in the freezing cold was not the way forward in getting over my loss, I had already made my mind up to get away from it all. But little did I realise it at the time, but the sub-zero temperatures almost cost me my own life, and on more than one occasion. This is my story of a week of hiking in Nortern Britain during a lot of heavy snowfalling.
Two brothers take a short vacation to South Cumbria for a lot of beers and a jolly good knees up. Visits to Windermere, Cartmel, Grange and various other South Lakeland wonders, make for some great hiking hotspots during a hot summer. Enjoy a trip to nowhere in particular, with a few laughs along the way in this slapstick memoir.
A walk about Porthcawl and the towns environs during the middle of Spring 2013, The journey takes me through a lot of disappointment, but thankfully through lot of the more beauty spots that are further afield from a quite sorrowful town. I am accompanied by Mike Thomas, an old friend who is of Welsh origin and knows the better parts of this majestic country.
A short journal of an early September week that I spent at the Lizard Peninsula on the Southern Coast of Cornwall, the most southerly point on British mainland. Here I make visits to Falmouth, Helston, and many more nearby places of interest that are close to 'Sea Acres Holiday Park where I was visiting.
Another trip up to the Lake District, and once again Milnthorpe makes pleasant walking for the Autumn fall. I visit Barrow-in-Furness to watch a game of football and generally do a lot of Autumn walking along the Bela and Kent rivers respectively.
A week in the pleasant village of St Minver, Cornwall in September 2013. As a hardened rambler, I found the public footpaths and bridleways a plethora in abundance for my feet to get carried away with expansive scenery that I find emotionally breath taking. Visits to Port Isaac, Port Quin, Padstow and many other delightful villages, make an excellent break from the hardships of the working week.
An invitation to visit South Wales during a warm week in the middle of the winter for a free holiday was too much an offer to refuse. A hike about the small town of Neyland, situated dead opposite Pembroke Dock, was a great relief from the rat race that is Birmingham. This a short journal of my visit on the south coast of the magnificent country that is Wales.
The Case of the Unhappy Angels, first published in 1944 and also known as Six Silver Handles, is a noir mystery featuring private investigator Humphrey Campbell. Campbell works to clear a young soldier wrongfully accused of the murder of an antique dealer following a drinking bout. Geoffrey Homes was a pseudonym for Daniel Mainwaring (1902-1977), an American novelist and screenwriter. He was born in California, and held various jobs, including fruit picker, private investigator, and reporter, before turning to writing in the thirties. In 1946 he began working full-time as a movie and TV screenwriter; and produced the script for the sci-fi classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), and Out of the Past (1947), based on his own novel, Build My Gallows High.
Part one of a two week break in Ayrshire and Cumbria during a warm May in 1991. In this first part I hike from Ayr to Stranraer, sleeping in various wooded locations that are full of natural wildlife and magnificent lochs. Along the way I encounter close calls with the natural inhabitants, not to mention a couple of women who more than catch my eye. I ask the reader to excuse any grammatical hiccups, as I am just trying to tell a story. Thanks.
A journey around Snowdonia forms the basis for another short travel story from my jaunts around the British mainland. so enjoy or be annoyed. This is a memoir, so don't expect a full history lesson, but do expect a short one. Also I visit the North East of the Isle of Anglesey and the the famous Puffin Island.
Walking the rural countryside of Great Britain has always been a fond pastime for me. And in this book I visit the Lake District, Lincolnshire, The Peak District, and West Lancashire, to find the perfect walks for a hardened rambler. Join me on an editorial sitcom of laughter and fun as I walk the natural countryside of rural England.
A few lines of a recent visit to Hunstanton during the Late Spring of 2014. These lines are memoirs only, just a man reminiscing a few days away from the hardship of an urban life.
A short memoir of a trip to the wonderful racecourse of Cartmel in the Southern Lakes of Cumbria. Also a day out at the most picturesque reservoir of Thirlmere, a lake that is very rarely visited by tourists. Also I visit the various homes and workplaces of the poet William Wordsworth, amongst others.
Having made a fruitless search for some friends in the upmost western part of Cornwall I was left with financial difficulty in getting back to Birmingham. I had already been walking about the English countryside since April and it was now October. I was in no real rush to get back home immediately and I fancied a bit of a stroll anyway. This stroll took me over a month to complete, and as the chilly autumn became a very cold winter I realised that living the life of a hobo wasn't as easy as one may think. The only only items on my person that kept me going through the seven weeks or so was a hot water bottle, a single calor gas stove and my radio. But there were times when even those life savers ran out of their respective fuels, and soon depression, hunger and eventual thieving, took priority for my needs. This is the story of my 250 mile walk home to Birmingham from St. Ives, Cornwall, in the autumn of 1990.
In April 1990 I decided to leave the domestic hell of a relationship that saw my long time girlfriend throw me to the streets, in an attempt for her to find a better love elsewhere, and in doing so, she left me naturally homeless. I could have stayed with friends or relations, but those sort of agreements are always short lived, and I would only end up back at square one and ultimately on the streets again. Because of the summer being just around the corner I decided that I would like to spend a few weeks of camping at some rural spots for a while, just so that I could find time to mend a broken heart. But those weeks would turn into months, and soon I would be living the life of a Nomad where I would once again find love, but this time it would be with the most incredible girl that I had ever met. Little did I realise it at the time, but I was about to travel the wilderness countryside of rural England with my new found love, followed closely by various law enforcements that were on the trail of a killer that was my Becky. For six and a half months, Becky and I would make our own world amongst the wildlife and natural freedom of the English prairieland where we became persistent in escaping the clutches of the law until the inevitability game of cat and mouse reached its inevitable end. This is the true story of Allison Rebecca Mitchell; a real life bohemian girl who was a true mermaid of wildest England.
A fourth excursion to the pretty village of Milnthorpe in Southern Cumbria makes for another delightful break away from the concrete world of city life. Even if only for a few days, I will miss nothing about the urban life I was born into. I will become a yokel of the Lake District once again and walk the quiet splendid pastures of these excellent villages and hamlets.
A rough guide of things to do and places to go if you are in or around the environs of the peaceful town of Grange-over-Sands on the South Lakeland peninsula (plus a lot of things not to do).
Because I am an avid rambler of the British countryside, someone suggested that I should take a walk along the coast of Pembrokeshire as it is a mirror image of my passion in hiking; that being the North Cornish Coast. I wasn't to be disappointed, and so I decided to spend a few days at the quaint village of Manorbier, which is just over 50 miles west of Swansea in South Wales. This was to be my finale of the year for treading Britain's natural countryside, and Manorbier became the autumn recluse for my finale of trekking for 2013 in the wilds of glorious Wales.
In 2012, I visited Norfolk, Cumbria, Cornwall, Ayrshire, and the Cotswold's. Normally I would write each of these rambling holidays in segments for quicker reading, but elected instead to write them all down as one complete diary. These are the memoirs of the walks that I under took, not to mention a lot of history of each of the towns that I visited.
The town of Hunstanton in Norfolk, is a suburb of England that is visited by over a million tourists each year. Situated about 15 miles north of Kings Lynn, it is the only seaside town in England that is on the east coast of the country, yet actually faces west. All this will be answered in this short and affectionate tour of this delightful municipality, not to mention a few humorous hiccups along the way.
Part two of my northern journey on the west coast of Britain. This time I am in the heart of the Lake District where I revisit some old stamping grounds before deciding on a few days in the small seaside town of Silloth, on the Solway Firth. here I make the choice of staying at a campsite, rather than the usual choice of random camping. This would be my last adventure in the wilds of Britain before I take up the reins again in 2001.
The memoirs of my first trip to Cornwall in over forty years, and the first ever to the North Cornish Coast. It was here that I finally found where heaven was. Like so many prairielands in the UK, Cornwall is not short of paradise for the hardened rambler.
A travel guide on where to go and what to do if you are on a vacation on the North West Coast of the English Riviera. Like most of rural Britain, Cornwall is a ramblers paradise, and the coastal views are a tremendous and welcomed break from the dilapidation of the concrete jungles of a metropolitan world. So join me on a journey of comical mishaps and great scenic adventures in and around the environs of St. Ives.
Gordo, a freelance writer, is married to Ana, an attorney. The couple has built a genteel life in the Oleander City. Sons Jake and Sam attend private schools, the family is active in the community, life is good.".
British Politics in the Age of Anne is a book that anyone with an interest in the period will wish to possess: completely authoritative, yet as attractive to the student and the general reader as to the specialist. The author has both revised the text and written a substantial new introduction to this edition. Geoffrey Holmes reveals how little the structure and contents of politics under Queen Anne had in common with the connexion-ridden scene of the mid-eighteenth century, as portrayed by Namier. He depicts a period of fierce and genuine party conflict, in which society at many levels was divided by great issues of principle and policy. Through frequent and hotly-contested elections and long parliamentary campaigns both Whigs and Tories enjoyed triumphs and suffered disasters. And while struggling against one another, each had to contend with internal factions and pressure-groups, the divisive thrust of personal ambitions and the hostility of the queen to single party rule. British Politics in the Age of Anne is more than a major work of analysis and a historiographical landmark. By liberal use of quotation, eye for detail, sense of atmosphere and vivid character sketches of both leading and lesser personae, Professor Holmes recreates the unique political life of the high Augustan age.
Do cell phones cause brain cancer? Does BPA threaten our health? How safe are certain dietary supplements, especially those containing exotic herbs or small amounts of toxic substances? Is the HPV vaccine safe? We depend on science and medicine as never before, yet there is widespread misinformation and confusion, amplified by the media, regarding what influences our health. In Getting Risk Right, Geoffrey C. Kabat shows how science works—and sometimes doesn't—and what separates these two very different outcomes. Kabat seeks to help us distinguish between claims that are supported by solid science and those that are the result of poorly designed or misinterpreted studies. By exploring different examples, he explains why certain risks are worth worrying about, while others are not. He emphasizes the variable quality of research in contested areas of health risks, as well as the professional, political, and methodological factors that can distort the research process. Drawing on recent systematic critiques of biomedical research and on insights from behavioral psychology, Getting Risk Right examines factors both internal and external to the science that can influence what results get attention and how questionable results can be used to support a particular narrative concerning an alleged public health threat. In this book, Kabat provides a much-needed antidote to what has been called "an epidemic of false claims.
The first edition of The Thirty Years' War offered an unrivalled survey of a central period in European history. Drawing on a huge body of source material from different languages and countries throughout Europe, it provided a clear and comprehensive narrative and analytical account of the subject. It has established itself as the classic text with reviewers, students and the general reader. This second edition has been thoroughly revised to include the very latest research. The updated bibliographical information provides an invaluable resource, synthesising the major work in the field, in all languages, up to 1996. Written with great clarity and liveliness, the book brings alive the period in all its aspects. It covers the horrors of the war and the contorted politics of the period. It deals with all the major figures, including Wallerstein and Richelieu, Gustavus Adolphus and Tilly, the Winter King and the Habsburg emperors. For range and depth of coverage there is no other work like it. It has become the definitive book on the subject.
Norms are a pervasive yet mysterious feature of social life. In Explaining Norms, four philosophers and social scientists team up to grapple with some of the many mysteries, offering a comprehensive account of norms: what they are; how and why they emerge, persist and change; and how they work. Norms, they argue, should be understood in non-reductive terms as clusters of normative attitudes that serve the function of making us accountable to one another—with the different kinds of norms (legal, moral, and social norms) differing in virtue of being constituted by different kinds of normative attitudes that serve to make us accountable in different ways. Explanations of and by norms should be seen as thoroughly pluralist in character. Explanations of norms should appeal to the ways that norms help us to pursue projects and goals, individually and collectively, as well as to enable us to constitute social meanings. Explanations by norms should recognise the multiplicity of ways in which norms may bear upon the actions we perform, the attitudes we form and the modes of deliberation in which we engage: following, merely conforming with, and even breaching norms. While advancing novel and distinctive positions on all of these topics, Explaining Norms will also serve as a sourcebook with a rich array of arguments and illustrations for others to reassemble in ways of their own choosing.
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