Monthly Archives: October 2014

It’s All Just a Wiggle

Posted on 28/10/2014 by stevehobsonauthor

When I look at the world, I see trees and people and buildings and dogs and a million other things. These things are all one thing, and they are all part of the same big wiggle, the same cosmic dance … Continue reading →

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New Photos

Posted on 26/10/2014 by stevehobsonauthor

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Winter on its Way

Posted on 21/10/2014 by stevehobsonauthor

Winter has let me know that it’s on its way, and it’s only just over the horizon. The horizon here is one of bare hills and moors, folding over into Lancashire, like a green and brown wave This is where … Continue reading →

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M S Advice #10

Posted on 21/10/2014 by stevehobsonauthor

And finally, keep planning. There are two kinds of planning you need to do. You need to think about the possible progression of your M S, and then envisage ways of coping, or managing, or living with these progressions. Don’t … Continue reading →

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October Scents

Posted on 19/10/2014 by stevehobsonauthor

Last week I had a cold and couldn’t smell very well. It made my walk in the woods much less interesting, although I hadn’t realised how much I had come to use my nose to sort out where I was! … Continue reading →

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Gravity and the Theory of Inflation

Posted on 16/10/2014 by stevehobsonauthor

Back in the January and February of this year, I was fascinated by the beginning of things. Cosmologically, I was exploring the birth of the universe and the idea of the Big Bang, the beginning of it all. As I … Continue reading →

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Firing from the Hip

Posted on 13/10/2014 by stevehobsonauthor

I feel liberated by this blogging, but, at the same time, strangely imprisoned by it. When I meet people in person, whether in a shop, on a train, over a coffee, I am, almost by definition, having a good day. … Continue reading →

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The Truth About Local Shopping

Posted on 12/10/2014 by stevehobsonauthor

This morning I woke up with the memory of a dream. A man with straggly hair had just said to me, in a broad Yorkshire accent, “you give me the impression of being norks in a blank of weather.” What … Continue reading →

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More on local shopping

Posted on 11/10/2014 by stevehobsonauthor

When Kurt Vonnegut, the American science fiction writer and author of, among other brilliant books, Slaughterhouse Five, told his wife he was going out to buy an envelope, she said, well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t … Continue reading →

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Supermarkets versus Local Shops

Posted on 09/10/2014 by stevehobsonauthor

We live in a large village, on the edge of moorland in the north of England. It’s large enough to maintain a post office and spaces designated as “brown field post-industrial sites”, ripe for development as clusters of treeless estates. … Continue reading →

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