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Comment on It’s time to wear purple! by Liz

Liz — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:22:51 +0000

Purple Wolf, you rock. And what’s more, you write beautifully….

Comment on The 1960’s were only yesterday… by Mike Pellatt

Mike Pellatt — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:10:25 +0000

You know what they say – “If you remember the 60’s, you weren’t there”

More seriously, though, don’t forget that in the face of arrogant and insensitive officialdom, the 60’s were also the beginning of the end of deference to authority just because it was authority. I know the Daily Mail would see that as a Bad Thing, but it does mean that there is now space for such official attitudes to be openly challenged early on, rather than when the policy failures are staring everyone in the face. Hopefully.

Comment on It’s time to wear purple! by Mike Pellatt

Mike Pellatt — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:44:35 +0000

Go for it Paul !!

We all reach a stage, sometime, when we decide that other’s opinions matter not one jot. It’s being true to yourself that matters, else the internal conflict will just explode.

You will always remain on my list of friends.

Comment on It’s time to wear purple! by Helen Hunter

Helen Hunter — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:22:18 +0000

Go Paul!
I love that poem too – but I have never wanted to presume on God’s time available to me……so I have been wearing purple (or hot pink) and calling a spade a spade for some time now!! I don’t want to wait until it’s too late, and I don’t care what anyone – least of all my fellow Christians – think.
p.s do you listen to Poetry Please? – it often rounds off my day beautifully as I fall asleep.

Comment on The 1960’s were only yesterday… by Lesley

Lesley — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:25:06 +0000

Hi Paul, I am loving your blog!! I too was in Paris 1968 passing through for a Spanish holiday on board a bus!! Regards to all.

Comment on A Three Year Journey Begins by Aly Mead

Aly Mead — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:24:21 +0000

Fantastic Paul – well done. I wish you well. I’ve just got a First in Literature, and have signed up for a Masters. It is utterly addictive. xx

Comment on Snowdon summit: beautiful or a hen’s breakfast? Discuss. by Helen Hunter

Helen Hunter — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:38:15 +0000

Good to hear your thoughts on Snowdon’s summit as it is today. I had heard most of the recent saga of the new caff and the railway but did wonder what the final (expensive) result was like.
Steven and I have nightmare memories of Snowdon unfortunately – and the old caff was just a grim stop in the middle!
We stayed in a friend’s cottage at the foot of a track (but can’t remember which one). Our friend’s father was the type (up to his fifties) to climb the summit and return for breakfast before the rest of the household awoke. But Steven and I were there alone.
It was a lovely day when we first started to climb – but just as we reached the last few hundred feet across the well-worn scree tracks the cloud descended and we became completely lost. It was very frightening crawling around in loose scree, but we did make it to that awful caff and had a cup of tea.
Then we went down the pyg track I think – knowing that we would end up a fair distance from the cottage. The rain was torrential – we were exhausted. Then when we finally reached the car park we realised that it was Sunday and there were no buses to wait for at the bus stop.
Thank the Lord we knocked on a driver’s car window and a v kind guy from Chester took us back.
Leg’s shaking and frozen we climbed in to a hot bath and vowed never, ever to climb a mountain again!!