by David West | Sep 22, 2024 | News
I posted recently about the Dartmouth Book Festival, sadly it has now come and gone. What a fabulous event it was. Claire and I were entertained and enlightened in equal measure. It was very professionally organised and run, which is amazing because most of the people...
by David West | Sep 17, 2024 | News
In the world of project management, and project sponsorship, where I used to spend my time, milestones are important. They mark important interim achievements on the way to an ultimate goal. So it was when walking the Camino de Santiago. Each milestone (or kilometre...
by David West | Sep 12, 2024 | News
While I was in Waterstones with Claire and found the book on rituals, I actually bought Gwynne’s Latin. I have unfinished business with Latin. On my first day at grammar school I was still talking for a few seconds after Mr Wilson shut the classroom door. I was...
by David West | Sep 11, 2024 | News
Yesterday Claire and I visited Waterstones to return the books I’d bought her for her birthday, and to replace them with books she didn’t already have. I came across a book on rituals, and discovered that Victor Hugo had a writing ritual which involved him stripping...
by David West | Sep 10, 2024 | News
I have posted about my favourite film, The Jungle Book which was a childhood favourite. Who didn’t love Baloo singing about the bare necessities? Baloo is from the Hindi for bear. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, and the human antics and behaviours of Baloo...
