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19-02-2012

The other day I experienced my first attact of sciatica - a memorable experience indeed - I make no claims to heroism, and have always thought that the fair sex are much better equipped in every respect to undergo "labour pains", BUT the type of pain that allows for no relief, there being literally as well as metaphorically no place to put oneself and even staying still is agonising, this is hell on earth. Happily the good folk and of the QAS at St Andrews Hospital provided the necessary

16-02-2012

Could some clever person explain to me how reducing the length of any apprenticeship ultimately improves the quality of the craftswomen/man that follows on ?

By the way, probably the best way of describing childhood is as an emotional apprenticeship; children are now asked to make choices for which they are in no way equipped - but some of their parents aren't either. Children are frequently now bringing up children, and this has to be true especially when presented with any dec

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