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Getting excited now about the weekend course we’re facilitating at the end of August:
The Map is Not the Territory: an introduction to Appleseed
Friday 28 August 2009 – Monday 31 August 2009
Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre
There’s a fee for this residential weekend, but there’s financial help available if that’s a problem.
The blurb says
The title quotation, which reminds [...]

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A nicely timed work gig meant we were in the Birmingham Hilton Metropole Hotel at the NEC on the night before this walk. As well as the function I was attending (awards for corporate communications, including a magazine called ‘Woundlife’) the hotel was hosting a massive ‘Soul Weekender’ – which meant several floor-shaking all-night discos [...]

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I arrived at Wythall station south of Birmingham, having made an absurd journey since leaving home a week ago – like Geoff Mack’s ‘I’ve been everywhere’ a work trip had taken me to Gatwick, Reading, Sarasota, Orlando, Boston, Heathrow, Birmingham and now here. Feeling dazed and muted I wander back to the end point of [...]

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