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Nov 11, 2019
2 min

The Core of the Matter

My father-in-law recently needed some help in the garden to prepare for a new concrete path. It involved shoveling a lot of heavy, wet, s...

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Michael

Sep 20, 2019
2 min

Finding Purpose

I recently had a surge in applicants to our introduction Kung Fu class… and this meant that on one night I had potentially many more stud...

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Michael

Sep 2, 2019
2 min

Mark, the Over-Qualified Green Tip

In college, as a hobby, I spent four years learning a particular martial art. Like many martial arts, the one I studied then used a progr...

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Michael

Aug 14, 2019
2 min

Hands up who is the teacher

I wasn’t exactly bad at maths in school.. but not great either. I remember a teacher advising me that, even if I found it hard, staying i...

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Michael

Aug 5, 2019
1 min

Influence

As the parents of two small children, we occasionally have to deal with meltdowns. The reason could be something reasonable like ‘I want ...

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Michael

Jul 30, 2019
2 min

Heart

Having decided to replace our wooden decking with stone tiles, we recently received a delivery of some 120 granite slabs which were deliv...

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