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Author Archives: Duncan Toms
Light on Life by BKS Iyengar – Chapter 5: Wisdom – The Intellectual Body – Part 2
Selected extracts from the second half of the fifth chapter: This is not yoga by the body for the body, but yoga by the body for the mind, for the intelligence. … The intelligence we are now developing depends upon … Continue reading
Posted in Intelligence, Life, Reading, Yoga
Tagged asana, health, intelligence, iyengar, meditation, wisdom, Yoga
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Light on Life by BKS Iyengar – Chapter 5: Wisdom – The Intellectual Body – Part 1
Selected extracts from the first half of the fifth chapter: Our individual intelligence, though an essential rudder to guide us, is merely a puny offshoot of cosmic intelligence, which is the organising system of the universe. This intelligence is everywhere … Continue reading
Posted in Intelligence, Life, Reading, Yoga
Tagged Yoga, sleep, iyengar, intelligence, wisdom, rest, insomnia
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Brockwood Park School Pavilions Project – Update May 2012
Brockwood Park School Pavilions Project, a set on Flickr. With the recent visit of International Trustees, I was able to enter the site for the first time since January. The roof tiles and weatherboards are being put in place and … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Brockwood, Photos
Tagged brockwood park school, brockwood pavilions, eco build, oak frames, paper wall insulation
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The Vyne, Basingstoke
The Vyne, a set on Flickr. Photos of the interior and exterior of The Vyne, a National Trust Property near Basingstoke in Hampshire. There are many statues inside, and some freaky paintings. It was a relief to get outside away … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Hampshire, Photos, Travel
Tagged architecture, england, house, the vyne, tudor
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Weekend Walk 36 – Hamble to Southampton – Solent Way
The 5th stage of the Solent way, east to west. Around 6 miles, from the Warsash ferry at Hamble to the Hythe Ferry at Town Quay Southampton. The path leads from Hamble-le-Rice village, south to the common to pick up … Continue reading
The first webcam
The first webcam, local in 1991, on the internet in 1993, was of a coffee pot at Cambridge University, so that programmers didn’t need to get up to see if there was any coffee.
A Graphic Biography of Hunter S. Thompson
Good as art, poor as a biography is what I read about this graphic novel on the life of Hunter S Thompson. I like Mark Frauenfelder’s description of the book/Thompson: …about a passionate, rebellious genius who sprinted too fast at … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Reading
Tagged dalai lama, gonzo, graphic novel, hunter s thompson, look similar
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The old green tree
Before: The old green tree, originally uploaded by :Duncan. The old green tree After:
Voices from the “Wild North”: Fracking in North Dakota
Williston, Watford City, New Town, Sidney, Montana and a handful of towns like them are located near the epicenter of the Bakken formation, a subsurface geologic strata thought to contain between 4 billion and 24 billion barrels of recoverable oil. … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs
Tagged drilling, fracking, lap dancers, north dakota, oil money
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Ecology Now! USA 1970
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Posted in Art, Earth, Scrap Book
Tagged early environmental movement, eco, flag, green, stars and stripes, USA
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Jack Nicholson VW LA 1969
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Weekend Walk 35 – Lee-on-Solent to Warsash (Solent Way)
Continuing the Solent Way after a break for winter, this is the fourth stage. I started around 10am from Lee-on-Solent, past Hill Head, Titchfield Haven, Meon Shore, Brownwich Cliffs, Chilling Cliffs, Hook, and on to Warsash. From just north of … Continue reading
Posted in Hampshire, Hike, Travel, Video, Walking
Tagged Hampshire, kinking, solent way, Video
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Maysleith Walk
As soon as one crosses from Hampshire to West Sussex things turn a little bit odd, a little bit spooky, a little bit weird. I don’t know why. This is completely unfounded but I feel it every time. It’s fun … Continue reading
Posted in Hike, Nature, Photos, Walking
Tagged hangers, iron grave, maysleith, milland, rake, Tuxlith chapel, west susses
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The Hunger Games: Battle Royale with Cheese
You’ve heard the joke, right? What do they call The Hunger Games in France? Battle Royale with Cheese. That’s about right. Think Battle Royale without much battle and what battle there is over very quickly and in a flurry of … Continue reading
Durford Wood and Rogate Common
This morning, in the cool spring air, we walked through Durford Wood and part of Rogate Common, just inside West Sussex from Hampshire. Here’s some of what we saw during an hour and a half’s walk over very sandy soil.
Posted in Hike, Nature, Photos, Walking
Tagged durford wood, leaves, Nature, pine forest, rogate common, spring
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