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Jez's Blog - Latest
WHATEVER YOU DO, DO IT BEAUTIFULLY.
How an Artist in the Kitchen revealed my Inner 'Foody'
I suppose this is what the art of cooking is all about - the earth provides a wonderful array of vegetables, spices and herbs and the artist chef knows from this diverse choice what to put together on your plate so that it tastes and looks great. But it's not just about the practical skills of the chef; their attitude and intention during the cooking manifests in their creations. There is a famous chef who's cookery programme seems to be built around the emotion of rage as entertainment. Would you want to put that food into your body?...
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99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name - Stephen Wright
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NAT THE CAT BLOG
Meet Nat the Cat, who’s about to star in his first ever book, & share his journey from idea to
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16: Painting the Final Artwork
... twenty two years after the initial idea presented itself to me the time has come to begin. I know how the characters look and what colours I need to mix in order to paint them. After all the months of preparation work it’s a great relief to finally get started....
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JACKALS JOURNAL:
30: BAND BONDING
Although Steve and I have shared this band’s journey for a year and a half now, we have only ever met at rehearsals and gigs and don’t really know each other outside of playing music together. Going to a Joe Bonamassa gig together offers us a chance to bond a bit..
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How Real is Real? Is Reality T.V. Finally Dead ?
The contestants on the latest Celebrity Big Brother were not ‘real’ celebrities of the old school who had earnt fame by virtue of their talent. They were reality t.v. stars - people who were famous simply for appearing on other reality programmes. By feeding on itself the notion of Celebrity has been downgraded so much that it has no meaning anymore...
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Resistance, Joy and Empowerment - Reflections on Learning and Teaching
Have you learnt anything new recently? I don’t mean about life (this is, of course, an ongoing process) but rather a new knowledge or skill? As we grow older and our student years fade into history it’s a position that we find ourselves in less often because by adulthood we have usually equipped ourselves with what we need to know to do what we want to do. But what we want to do can change and at these times we are beckoned out of our comfort zone and challenged to expand our knowledge and skill base.
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