The following lists all posts on this blog, starting with the most recent.

• At Hoylake
• Muck or nettles
• Parkgate and Mostyn House School
• Obstacles
• At the National Memorial Arboretum
• Modes of knowing
• The first traffic jam on Broadway
• That was 2021 on this blog
• Squirrel on roof
• Metaphor, Map and Model
• The Bake Cake Saga
• John Polkinghorne
• Sun going down at West Kirby
• A sunny morning in Parkgate
• The thing thing
• A systems problem
• Restoring the natural order
• Hailes Abbey
• The White Ship
• Roses in the snow
• Barmouth viaduct
• Towards Lleyn
• Towards Tywyn
• Sunset at Barmouth
• Fungi time
• The gathering
• Cormorant 2
• The fate of man
• Carpenter bee 2
• Great spotted woodpecker 2
• The Secret Stories of Our Lives
• Pathocracy, psychopathy and narcissism
• Covid-19 in England and France
• Chinon
• A Reflection on ‘Amor Fati’
• Fontevraud, Royal Abbey
• Elephant Hawkmoth Caterpillar
• Your Restless Mind
• Incredulous, amused, bonkers, sad, insecure
• Small tortoiseshell 3
• Green veined white at Hidcote
• Bodnant Gardens
• Our Minds Limit Science
• Cigarettes, gas guzzlers, and the power of corporate interests
• Monterey pine
• Emperor dragonfly
• Thomas Cromwell
• Gatekeeper
• A question of balance?
• Billionaire man
• Banded Demoiselle
• Blue Green Algae
• Small Skipper 3
• Are we insane?
• Black pine canopy
• Ringlet
• Avebury
• Rapeseed sunset
• Cute chick
• If we don’t love the Earth
• Black Tailed Skimmer
• Coming into velvet
• Beech canopy
• Saint Richard Whiting
• Indigenous Peoples Day, lessons in environmental stewardship and more
• Dissolution
• Gog and Magog – ancient oaks
• On the Dee Estuary
• An Exploration of Martin Buber’s “I and Thou”
• Chiffchaff
• Greylags up close
• Spring companions
• None of this is now
• Fresh oak
• Spiritual science
• Herring gull investigating
• Where you stand
• Diaphaneity: Unfolding the Wings of Perception
• Everything Comes from your Depths
• Beech tree avenue
• The Power of Systems Thinking: Beyond the Reductionist Mindset
• Magpies in the spring
• Booths Mere
• Dark Regions of The Country of The Mind
• Beyond the Res Cogitans
• Blackthorn
• Early woodland flowers
• Third is the Horse Chestnut
• Mellow yellow
• All doomed?
• Lockdown King Street
• And next is the hawthorn
• Entangled Life
• It Felt Love
• Melchett Mere
• A dead tree
• Springing forth
• Mystical scientists
• Some Thoughts on Stillness
• Creativity and Humour
• Green darner dragonfly
• Beware gators!
• Common gallinule
• Moorhen
• Economics catching up?
• The Fall
• Water, ice and snow
• Fallow deer at Tatton
• Tufted Ducks
• Goosanders at Shakerley
• Snowy Silver Birch
• Galileo’s Error?
• Hope reprise
• New Renaissance vision – 25 years on
• The Fight for The Fens
• Tatton in the rain
• Greylags
• Lifting the spirits
• My Fens
• Lesser black backed gull
• Reality is Now the Enemy!
• That was 2020 on this blog
• Out of the Wreckage
• New Year’s Eve, Tatton
• Not the yellow headlights
• Breughel on Knutsford Heath
• Yellow crowned night heron
• Little blue heron
• Christmas Eve at Shakerley
• A COVID Christmas message
• Nationalism is a psychological aberration
• What is Philosophy for?
• Middle of the pier
• Will things be better in 2021? Read on…
• Water everywhere
• Sand, sea and sky
• Ethics reduced to economics?
• The Argument for Free Speech & Against Censorship
• The heron and the swan 2
• New humanity rising
• Agonism
• Lichen
• Crab Apple
• Making the Human Race Whole
• Black Fungi
• Bittersweet chess
• Queen’s Gambit
• The heron and the swan
• Psychology and Astrology Models
• Hope in Hell
• Autumn colours 2020
• Shaggy Ink Cap 2
• Glistening inkcap
• Fly Agaric
• Clouds on the Errwood Reservoir
• The techie problem
• The Old Man of Calke
• Dune Parasol Mushrooms
• Politics as my Footnote
• We are tired of this blindness
• Brent geese galore
• Wigeons Galore
• Give us back the dark
• Could the goodies lose?
• Irredeemable?
• Common green shieldbug
• Blue sky
• Combe Martin
• Red sky
• Grey sky
• European robin 2
• Hawthorn shield bug
• The apple crop
• Why make blogging more difficult?
• The social media dilemma and its consequences
• Great Orme Cemetery
• Fake. News.
• Which Jesus?
• Reincarnation
• Pettiness
• Small tortoiseshell 2
• Gladioli
• Inside out
• Small white
• Comma 2
• Thistle patch
• Speckled wood 2
• Silver Y
• Egyptian goose
• In velvet
• Acceptance
• Bramble flower
• Southern screamer
• Black Swan
• Women leaders and coronavirus: look beyond stereotypes to find the secret of their success
• Crosby murmuration
• The ship channel
• Another favourite place
• Meadow Cranesbill
• Presence
• More Garden Flowers
• Marsh Hoverfly
• Our Story
• The Dangerous Gnat
• Alien gorse
• Garden flowers
• Large red damselfly
• Cucumber Spider
• Time for change, but will we?
• What on earth…?
• Allium coming out
• Wild garlic
• Chives
• Wild strawberry flowers
• Lumpy Bracket
• Jay
• Cuckoo flower
• Buttercup clump
• Hawthorn blossom
• Mint Moth 2
• Quick… heron overhead
• VE Day
• America’s issue with socialism, so that’s what it’s all about
• Polarity – Balance and Synthesis
• Mr Blackbird’s bath
• Purple Archangel
• Private gain must no longer be allowed to elbow out the public good
• Garden fruit
• Covid-19 – why now?
• Night walks in lockdown
• Blackbird nesting time
• Hoverfly
• Has neo-liberalism reached use-by date? Ayn Rand and the failure of philosophy
• Time for the Magic Money Tree
• Wilding
• After Covid-19 – humanity at the crossroads
• Bottle brush
• Blue and Yellow
• Spring peacock
• Aluna
• The five freedoms
• Dalai Lama’s message
• In Tune with the Infinite
• Insects in the Houston garden
• Lizards in the Houston garden
• Spring in George Bush Park
• Whistling ducks and friends
• Great Blue Heron
• Finding ourselves
• Rumi’s way of the heart
• Travelling home as things close down
• Tagore Grove
• Chickens coming home
• Mimosa
• Pelican Cormorant flotilla
• Fox Squirrel
• Northern Mockingbird
• Taking Appearance Seriously
• The coronavirus outbreak – the economic impact
• Ambition Unbridled
• End of an Empire
• When the dog looks
• Blue Tit at Rutland
• Turkey Tail fungus?
• Reed Bunting
• Snowdrop Crocus
• Fieldfare 2
• All about the numbers
• The benefits of reading (or studying) philosophy
• Pity the Nation: the handwriting was on the wall
• So That’s It
• Enantiodromia
• Snowdrops in the rain
• Trade Deals
• Southport pier 2
• A Berlin Wall Moment?
• Sefton sundown
• Paddleboarding
• Kindness, compassion, and post-truth
• Parkgate sunset
• God and good
• Stakeholders and Davos
• How can climate change not be the main goal of all countries in 2020? Canada?!
• Redwing
• Canada Declares Peace
• Tinder Fungus
• Antibacterial soaps
• Neumann’s Flash
• Crystallised thinking?
• Maintain Your Rage
• Knutsford Sunset
• Climate Stripes
• Shaggy Scalycap?
• Wrapping up a tumultuous year
• Do not despair. There is Hope!    
• Everybody Knows
• The Flip
• Southport Sunset
• At WWT Martin Mere
• Their Inheritance
• Pintail 2
• Wigeon 3
• At the Hustings
• Light in Dark Times
• Kindness is key to health and happiness, and it’s free!
• The Magic of Vézelay
• The One Reality
• Action Replay
• The Modern Flat Earthers
• Humanity’s Endgame, or New Beginning?
• Oyster Shell Fungus?
• Think before you post.
• Making the Human Race Whole
• The Seabird’s Cry
• Wall Wood
• Power of Words
• The Magic of Psychosynthesis
• Porta Nigra
• Multiple Me’s?
• Bracket Fungi
• The Narrative
• The First Supermarket
• Charlemagne’s Cathedral
• Shaggy Ink Cap
• Dryad’s Saddle
• “Brexit is the will of the British people” is complete nonsense
• Devil’s Coach Horse Beetle
• Aix la Chapelle
• MLK Jr. On Getting ‘Woke’ in 1965
• The Big Egos
• UK Garden Spider
• Shooting Wildlife
• Five or six spots?
• Seven Simple Actions for Birds
• Ruddy Shelduck
• Common Blue
• Silver Washed Fritillary
• Scarlet Dragonfly
• Bar Headed Goose
• The Shortest History of Germany
• Green Cool Calmness
• Ever Flowing
• Red Admiral
• Great green bush cricket
• Peacocks on the Buddleia
• Blue Damselfly
• Yellow Damselfly
• This Is Not A Drill
• Small Skipper 2
• Crocosmia Lucifer
• Magical flower of the night
• Hottest Day
• The Wrong Road
• Black tipped orange beetle
• Small Tortoiseshell
• Painted Lady
• An idea whose time is coming?
• Here today…
• Allium – another week on
• Sustainability and Evolution
• Morcambe Bay Chimneys
• Bullfinch
• Pied Wagtail
• Robin Juvenile
• Allium Revisited
• Hope and Fear
• Mottled Beauty
• Fermat’s Last Theorem
• The first duty of government
• Allium
• Time of Crisis
• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Canada Goslings
• Blue Tits
• Jackdaw thieves
• Cygnets 7
• Want of foresight
• Brazos Bend
• Cotinus Raindrops
• Whistling Ducks 2
• Trump Trade Deal: It’s Not About F*cking Chicken
• Teresa May faced an Impossible Task.
• Senatus PopulusQue Romanus
• What causes War?
• Anhinga 2
• Katydid
• D-Day Dissonance
• Green Ground Beetle
• Digger Wasp
• Early Purple Orchid
• Common Blackbird
• Wheatear
• Croquet at Wells
• The Weight of Our Sins
• Sustainability: Is the Mount Everest gridlock a metaphor for our planet?
• Climate Emergency
• Thrive
• Where is the wisdom we have lost?
• Humanity’s biggest own goals
• The Art of Life
• Air pollution
• Looking at aging with the glass half full
• Pluto might be a planet again. Or not.
• Snowy Egret
• Mother Earth – A Message from Jane Goodall
• Blue Jay
• Mainstream Environment?
• American Sparrow
• The glass IS half full
• Song Thrush
• Orange Tip
• Here today…
• Dee Estuary Sunset 2
• Sorry for the Ads
• The Water Will Come
• Notre Dame de Paris
• Northern Cardinal
• Greater Yellowlegs
• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
• Paul D Rushing Park
• Carolina Wren
• Louisiana Waterthrush
• Clouded Yellow Butterfly
• Monarch butterfly
• Llano, Texas
• Osprey and Catfish
• Dancing Grebes
• Snowdrop carpet
• Oak
• Oystercatcher
• Redshank
• Beach scene
• No Deal
• Thoughts have consequences
• European Robin
• Ice on Shakerley Mere
• Old Man’s Beard
• Catkins
• Utopia for Realists
• Silver Birch
• Fieldfare
• What to Believe?
• To those in the arena
• Gödel, Maths and Physics
• If
• Removing poverty
• Earth centred learning
• The Templars
• Helmeted Hornbill
• Exotic Woodpeckers
• Cherrie’s Tanager
• Grebes and swans
• Low sun on Melchett Mere
• Grey Capped Flycatcher
• The Grump
• Chiloé Wigeon
• Wigeon 2
• Uncle Will
• Prejudiced, moi?
• True science and religion are complementary
• Boxing Day in Tatton
• Green Hummingbird
• The Web of Life Paradigm
• Ecoliteracy
• Groundhog Days
• Trickle-Down Economics – child’s view
• Brexit Angst
• Sundown at Shakerley
• Winning
• Too Much Reality?
• Justice and Generosity, Hierarchy and Equality
• Lapwings 2
• Interview with René Descartes
• What was the problem?
• Mute Swans
• The case for a second poll grows by the day.
• ‘Everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile’
• Sundown at Martin Mere
• Black Tailed Godwit
• Sea Buckthorn
• Southport pier
• Stubble field farmhouse
• Travellers in the Third Reich
• In the groove
• Alcohol and gambling
• Squirrel silhouette
• The Business Plan for Peace – Building a World without War
• How to lead a good life, from an unlikely source
• Gratitude
• The Last Million Mile Men
• Barn Owl
• Liver Birds
• Autumn Colours
• Pan-what’s-it-ism
• Never despair
• Mind and Matter
• Are Humans Special?
• Psychopathic and Narcissistic Leaders
• The End Times
• Consciousness
• Lapwings
• Giant House Spider
• Exploring Ontology
• Instinct and Intuition
• Spindle Red
• The blogging persona
• To Live is to Choose
• The Meaning of Persons
• Person
• Green Lacewing
• Lying to Save Others
• Fibonacci Grape Pips?
• Faith
• Chiggered
• Metanoia
• Chicory
• Spider Webs Amboise
• Common Blue 2
• Banded agrion
• Amboise
• The Inner Life of Animals
• If Only They Didn’t Speak English
• Dear Prince George….
• Looking for a Lesson
• Light and Dark
• No Deal Nonsense
• Recycling progress?
• Hen Harriers
• What’s primary?
• Competition and Co-operation
• Dog Walkers
• Fennel bees
• Be Gentle with your Mind
• Comma
• A three-way Brexit poll?
• Red legged shield bug
• Cistercian Simplicity
• Truth
• What’s Living?
• The Next Crash
• Red Kites at Rhaedr
• Judgmentalism reveals our insecurities
• Polarity
• Polyporus Squamosus
• Can computers ever be conscious?
• Crane Fly
• Thistle
• Dee Estuary Abstract
• Emerald moth
• Saving Capitalism
• Freedom to choose
• Deer Antlers
• Muscovy Duck
• Touring Trumpland
• Another Place, Another Time
• The tyranny of metrics and algorithms
• An Inspector Calls
• Empathy
• An unfortunate legacy of Justus von Liebig
• Jay encounter
• Herring Gull
• Buttercup meadows
• Conwy sand bank
• Whistling Duck on Green
• Northwich’s Swing Bridges
• Metta
• Hope
• Irritation and Imperil
• Talking to My Daughter About the Economy
• The foraging blackbird
• The Bird of Joy
• Dee Estuary
• Chaffinch
• Fairies of the Trees
• The Common Core
• US Trade Deal Risks
• Animal sentience
• 8 Golden Rules for being a Buddhist Stoic.
• Reality Is Not What It Seems
• Dandelion Clocks
• Large Red Damselflies
• Henryk Skolimowski
• Sailing Ship
• Let yourself be moved. | 024/100
• Wild Parsnip
• Absurd Brexit Process
• Welcome back, little critters
• Learn A Basic Number Theorem Through Playing Cards
• Maps and reality
• Seven billion
• In Touch
• The end of the road
• Spring Butterflies
• New isn’t always better. | 010/100
• Falcated Duck
• Eider duck
• Character
• Mallard Iridescence
• Measurement and Targets
• Great Crested Grebe
• Social Media: What is it Doing to Us?
• Lesser Celandine
• Common Grackle
• American White Pelican
• Set the dogs on them
• Hawks
• Blue Herons
• Inner stories
• UK Driver Attitude Problem?
• Mapping the Universe
• Memphis
• Blue bonnets
• American Purple Gallinule
• A feast of Art Nouveau
• What Newton really thought
• Presence or represent
• The four little girls
• Rusty old ruin
• Universe alive or dead?
• Way down yonder in New Orleans
• Blogging advice?
• UK bullying
• Ibis, White and Green
• Petrochemical dream or nightmare?
• Anything good about Brexit?
• American Bittern
• Loggerhead Shrike
• The money-go-round
• Waxwing
• Licence to Operate?
• Black Bellied Whistling Duck
• American Robin
• Isaac Newton, Mystic
• Impressionist Peregrine
• Svalbard Barnacle Goose
• The eye of the needle
• Musings on Attention and Mindfulness
• Why a Groundhog?
• Avocet
• Bewick’s Swan
• Tufted Duck
• James Robertson
• The Hidden Life of Trees
• Light and Dark
• Growth vs Sustainability
• Vision
• Geography and Stupidity
• Vanity and Happenstance
• Gorse
• Mass murder in our green and pleasant land
• World Economic Forum
• The Pigeon Tunnel
• Spider silk mystery
• Lighting effect
• A Brexit citizenship story
• Parkgate
• Everybody knows
• The mystery
• How the Renaissance Began?
• Brexit turkey evidence
• Ruff
• Mandarin Duck
• Message of BBC’s Blue Planet
• Internet Addiction
• After the carniverous plenty…
• Prisoners of Geography
• Disasters
• Carpenter Bee
• Hummingbird Hawk Moth
• Speckled Wood
• Damselfly
• Bush Cricket Camouflage
• Conques
• Le Puy en Velay
• The French Village
• Trees
• No, not this way
• Dowsing
• Driving in France
• Mrs Cotton
• Disaster in Surrey
• Wigeon
• Misuse of Power
• Teal dabblers
• Another Place
• Murmuration
• Starling
• Greenfinch
• Goldfinch
• Chaffinch
• Tree Sparrow
• Dunnock
• Steep Hill
• Inequality
• Insectageddon
• Disappearing Insects
• Inner and Outer
• To Have or To Be
• Miss Abbott
• Swallow
• Healing the Heart of Democracy
• Cormorant flying
• Cormorant
• Coot feet
• Shy Grebes
• Immortality
• Fennel Arachnid
• Houston and Harvey
• Verdun
• Ghent
• Parasol Mushroom
• The Heart of Man
• Periods of Renaissance
• Fromm on social narcissism
• Fromm on Narcissism
• Biophilia and Necrophilia
• Common Blue
• Goldeneye
• Nursery Web Spider
• Common Newt
• Small Skipper
• The Armchair Activist’s Tale
• Mint moth
• Mrs Watty
• Scarlet Macaw
• Green Orb-Weaver Spider
• Salary Transparency
• A Hen Harrier’s Tale
• Easy abstractions 
• Tuition fees
• The sixth extinction
• Garden wildlife
• British Lawnmower Museum
• How did you do that?
• Energy and economy
• So there is a Magic Money Tree
• The Living Truth
• Great Auk
• Mr Stanniforth
• Loganberries and politics
• Collective Narcissism 
• People of the Lie
• Magic Money Trees
• The Plastic Grass Gardening Society
• There’s a Way, May
• Iguana resting
• Rufus necked Wren
• Crocodile
• Squirrel cuckoo
• Tiger Heron
• Simian encounter
• Broad billed motmot
• Rainbow toucan
• Blue crowned manakin
• Auntie Edie
• Those pink flowers
• Skylark
• Meetings with amazing people
• Heirs to forgotten kingdoms
• Auntie Lillie
• Lost our way?
• Secret Teachers
• Bluebell time
• Green Honeycreeper
• Green heron
• Psychosomatic
• Green Kingfisher
• Northern Jacana
• A brief history of 40 years
• Sloth
• Black necked stilt
• Clay colored robin
• Grey necked woodrail
• Deadly Whites
• Road to Monteverde
• Vroooom!
• Inside someone’s game
• The nightmare unfolds
• Costa Rica
• J’accuse
• Astrology and Religion
• Anhinga
• Uncle Ive
• Cause of The Renaissance?
• Excess sugar in diet
• Beyond the Robot
• Uncle Frank
• The Right Man
• George HW Bush Library
• Just before the Dawn
• Intellect and Intuition
• Uncle Arthur
• Sugar in Bread
• Monster Jam
• Lucky vireo
• Naughty Microsoft Onedrive
• The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
• Black vulture
• Shy cardinal
• Superbowl 51
• Fearful times
• Shoveler
• Scotland and the Klan
• Narcissism
• 1089
• Uncle Budge
• Thank God for Atheists?
• Shelduck
• Whooper Swans
• Pintail
• Truth
• Chris Lyons
• The year the good guys lost
• New Thinking for a New Renaissance
• Hair of the Dog
• Will you wake
• Uncle Paul
• Presence (the book)
• Presents
• Presence
• Astrology and Science
• Behind the wheel
• Nicky
• Rude and crude
• Fear itself
• Uncle Wag
• RSPB Conwy
• Spindle Tree Autumn
• Tolerance
• Restoring the Soul of the World
• The Environment
• Hallowe’en
• Autumnal colours
• The autumn rut
• Pink footed migration
• What is it all about?
• Gödel’s theorem
• Turnstone
• Defences of Atheism 
• Driven grouse shooting
• The Presence of the Infinite
• Eggs on stalks
• Hips and Haws
• A Sand County Almanac
• The History of Modern France
• Atheism
• Mega farming
• The Fibonacci Series
• Genius at the Château du Close Lucé
• Bourges Cathedral
• The usurpers
• More wagtails
• Changing France
• Meaning of Brexit
• Evolution’s Purpose
• The Dialectic
• Political crisis?
• A Way of Being
• Inglorious twelfth
• Beautiful
• Grace and Favour
• Le plus ca change
• Soil, Soul, Society
• The Golden Rule
• Killing the earth?
• Crazy UK energy markets
• The great escape
• 1966 World Cup Final 
• Drivers lacking courtesy
• Who makes money?
• At the races
• The frenetic hour
• Belisha freedom
• Satyagraha
• Germany
• Honourable members?
• Take back control
• Run by abandoned children?
• Dear Brothers and Sisters
• Battle of ideas
• Catching movement
• What happened to politics?
• Redmire Force
• Inspiration from North Wales
• Ten on Fear
• Well is it cow parsley?
• A Brexit Nightmare
• Jervaulx Abbey
• A psychological take on Brexit
• Othering
• When in need
• Reclaiming Virtue
• The Devious Imp
• Bread and cheese in May
• The higher they fly…
• A garganey!
• Feathered with love
• A veneer of culture?
• A decent life
• Levels of Being
• Being nervous
• Education of a materialist
• This Beautiful Earth
• Gardening
• Gazing into the mystery
• Noel Charlton and Gregory Bateson
• Why the storm and why now?
• Science, Religion and the New Age
• Verging on the ridiculous
• A hidden gem without
• An Outstanding Day
• The Meaning of Aging
• The Master and His Emissary
• The Perfect Lawn?
• Front Gardens
• Wisdom
• Field of stars
• Ill gotten gains
• Fare Well Louise
• Lead by idiots
• Goodness, Truth and Beauty
• Forgiveness
• The most precious
• Science and Spirituality
• It’s going to be all right?
• What did you expect?
• A sad dissolution
• Crikey!
• The American Soul
• Religion
• Reality and consciousness
• The Last Seabird Summer?
• Blithe Spirit
• Falling Upward
• Houston and Knutsford
• Mother Nature Bats Last
• House Plants
• A Tale of Renewal
• Materialism
• A Living Manchester Sage
• In Praise of The Beans
• Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm
• John Muir
• New Renaissance Lectures
• The Kimbell Art Museum
• Shooting Snipe
• Gravity and the Universe
• Life on the Mississippi
• Crazy world?
• What is this Superbowl?
• Signs of Spring in Houston
• The heart of capitalism?
• Disgusting rubbish
• I don’t believe it!