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Pattern for Purpose- God’s and Man’s designs
Why write a book on pattern? Are we only here for fun as some people think?
You have to agree, we all go through life from birth to death governed by some sort of order. Even if you take one step forward and three steps backward you are going somewhere. If there was no pattern then this would result in uncertainty, lack of purpose and chaos; a choppy sea compared to a wave; everyone talking at once compared to one voice speaking.
You might think there is not much about a divine creator/force/God in this book but this can be seen through the examples given on patterns produced by man often originating from nature itself. One can see an underlying reliance on an existence trying to grab hold of order in this everyday sea of chaos. One could say the more pattern there is the closer one gets to the creator himself.
Fred Red Cell and Friends
How ready are you for a new experience?
It was only a matter of time before you came face to face with the daringly different Human Biology travel tales told by Fred the red blood cell. At long last we have the ultimate in bobby dazzlers with odd facts and personalised body parts e.g. Stella Stomach, Billy Bone). So take life by the throat or the jugular and let Fred take you behind the scenes in the living body.
I am Termite
My life is used to illustrate the whole biological, behavioural and physiological time I have experienced while living as a termite. I have a predetermined destiny, full of adventure and dangers from different factors, including man who considers some of us a major pest.
As well as being a story of my life, this short book introduces the reader to the biology and behaviour of us termites that pursue a hidden life underground or inside timber.
Many technical textbooks exist on termites even one written by myself. This current book has been written to provide a basic guide to termites for everyone including the younger reader at low cost. It mainly centres around one of the more advanced termite mound builders. Specificity has been sacrificed in places to give an overview of the life of different termites and may not relate to one particular species and the writer acknowledges this. This book provides an inexpensive way of learning about termites. Written by one of the worlds experts on termites.
How to be a Successful Business Weed
Behind every situation there is always an outcome, be it either positive or negative. This book goes right back to nature and draws on the ecology of plant life which in many aspects mirrors that of a college or business. Using information on plants, especially weeds, it turns these into ways to ensure success and competitive advantage in today’s climate. Plants were here a long time before we were and have had to adapt, compete, compromise, overtake, and develop new forms and behaviour in order to be successful, which they are. They also know about growth and expansion – the aim of any successful business.
A weed is regarded as something growing where you did not want it to grow and something that can reseed and spread. However much you try to remove it, it can always reappear in many different challenging environments to make its mark on the surroundings.
This book allows you to pick out some of the ideas given in each section. To then try them out and evaluate their effects on your business success
How to Deal with Life’s Snakes and Ladders
I have written this book to help the young and not so young believe in themselves no matter what life throws at them. To gain again that fire in their belly, as the phrase goes, to move on in life and rebuild their dreams and realise what their actual potential.
Like in the game of snakes and ladders you think you can gain a great achievement but in reality things don’t always last that long. As they say life is a roller coaster, like a wave with its peaks and troughs. The waves of life creep unexpectedly towards your walls and eventually can topple you over like a sandcastle and knock down your dreams and ambitions. This may leave you lost, disheartened and wondering how you will survive.
You will always survive life makes sure of that. You are you and no one can change that, but you can change and you can change the people around you. Remember you belong to this world and the world is as much yours as anyone else’s.
Trust-Nothing but a Must
Trust will always involve risk. Ever since we existed we had to trust someone or something in order to survive. By repeatedly doing something which we found had helped us in the past this became fused into our memories for use by future generations. The materials around us provided huge varieties of uses. Fire, water and shelter were particularly important.
The word “trust” comes from the old Norse word treysta, meaning “to rely on or have confidence in”.
There will always in every walk of life be someone you trust who will let you down be it government, church, bank celebrity or partner.
Trust can involve long term commitments often confirmed by shaking hands. It can also be an instant thing, a second, a minute, for example someone putting out their hand needing help to cross a busy road.
We may have been brought up with the saying never trust what a stranger is a saying. This was probably based on not having any past references of what a person was like or experiences of trust for them. Giving money or something else can be seen as a gamble and people vary in whether to do this. This gift is sometimes seen as a social duty or faith in society or human nature
Trust can be built up like bricks over time, but it is easy to pull out a single brick and the wall come tumbling down. There are grades of trustworthiness and the growth of trust is based on each situation or even recommendations. Trust remains open until there is new evidence to close it.
Friendship cannot exist without trust .You will always find a person wishing to trust someone, but in some circumstances trust may not be needed. This depends on kind of people present. Some people will give their trust freely others think that it must be earned.
Can we trust human nature? Humans still have hidden animal attributes. They will fight with each other over a mate. They will also watch others fight to the death as in the Roman circuses. We have to read the cues and actions to know if we can trust completely and experiences of mistrust or betrayal can erode our scale of trusting forever.
Know your students and build your image
The forms of teaching are very like scientific principles. They do not change that much and often go round in circles being influenced by government and institution requirements linked to funding and quality control.
This publication looks at various ways you can help students progress in education by collecting information as well as improving team work and the corporate image of your institution. By knowing your students and improving their learning this can help promote your image as one of the best educational establishment in the country after all it’s the student success that really count.
Pens for Pops
Loneliness is hard to define. You don’t have to be alone to be lonely but this often has been assumed for those on their own. This book provides many ideas on how to avoid feeling isolated or lonely. It is mainly directed at those 50 plus who are still active, semi active or housebound. Pick and choose things to try out which fit your circumstances at the time so as to enjoy every moment of your day. There is a need to examine why you think you are lonely and how you actually feel about it so you can change it around. You can’t help how you feel but you can change how you behave. Optimism will develop through practise. People who have a negative mess in their lives still have strength and spark with a burning flame inside them which is just waiting to be released. There are new experiences and victories round the corner. In life there is always more to taste and you can still improve your health and strength in some way whatever age you are. Remember, lonely people breed lonely people. One day there will be so many elderly people in many parts of the world that the word lonely will have little relevance as this will be a new culture.
How to be a successful charity shop
Charity will always involve giving something be it money goods or your time. It origin extends from the Latin word Cantas meaning dear and in old English refers to love of ones fellow humans a form of philanthropy.. The goods or money may originate from donations or raised by some otter means e.g. sponsorship or collections. The aim is to help some living being or something that could be treasured and respected by a living thing. Charity edges on to Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs be it food water healthcare clothing even a job and aims to help people up to self at the top of Maslow’s pyramid
Make up-revealed
This book looks at a brief history of make-up and its use. It also gives the terminology used in make-up as well as the phrases that can encourage you to spend tens if not hundreds of pounds. Many people do not even look at what is on the packaging and most people have no idea what the chemicals are that will soon be adorning their face. Some recognisable ingredients such as fruits and plant oils taken from aromatherapy have been used to soften this ignorance. Many ingredients used in the past caused more damage than beneficial effect and still today some chemicals can still be rated as questionable. Some professions require a person to wear make-up which is unavoidable but minimum make-up for others is closest to beauty and remember most people choose inner beauty not physical attractiveness when choosing their partner.
Ronnie’s Sermon Snippets
Sermons are often times for congregation sombulatory behaviour (sleeping). Often they never reach down to everyday relevance and experiences but tell the converted what they should do. Gone are the days where threats of hell and damnation echo out and the importance of giving guaranteeing a place in purgatory. Often the sermon is based on a few verses taken from a chapter in the bible and the minister tries to explain what this means and moreover what it meant at the time.
Sermons even go far as to say this is what God and Jesus asks you to do, quite out of context from any biblical text as if the minister has been told this is so. Sermons also can be linked to trying to put down any criticism that people have about the minister or changes within the church. They often to can be used in an indirect way to reinforce donations for a building or a cause.
Good sermons way up values with examples of how the bible demonstrates relationships between people with people and with nature. It sets new goals and especially portrays life after death. A sermon as with any good presentation needs enthusiasm and belief in what is being said with a touch of magic and inventiveness with examples from literature and other sources. Ronnie I believe had all these in his sermons but even after wanted to improve on these. These snippets from Ronnie’s Sermons we encourage you to use to help get the Christian Message across.
Wastefulness-Bones and Urine
For most people today, bones reach the trash bin and landfill and urine trickles down the toilets into the sewage system. We know that our primitive ancestors used bones for tools and possibly weapon especially when living in caves. In the past, we had rag and bone man with a sack or cart.
With a lack of water our primitive ancestors may have used wee for drinking, washing and even cooking. They may also have discovered that putting urine on injuries this could act as antiseptic or sterilising chemical at the time
This book looks at how we used bones and wee in the past and the ways we can still use these today as a valuable recyclable resource being probably more viable than gold or precious metals.
Captain Grottbuster versus the Grey World
Over the last ten years there has been a move to make people more responsible for their environment and surroundings. The book ‘Limits to Growth’ and Local Agenda 21 initiative helped to kick start this process and today with education initiatives , TV and publicity many people are beginning to realise that there is a limit to the ways we can treat our planet without destroying it for future generations.
There are still many who are not sure what they can do and some carry on regardless of the threats and changes that are happening. Many of our actions now and in the past are believed by some to have helped accelerate climate change. Even if this is not so, deforestation and concreting land has increased flooding, mineral resources are limited and the current threat of obesity and associated disorders is a danger for future generations. Captain Grottbuster, although a small and insignificant creature in this short book, has indicated ways to address this and wants you, the reader, to choose some things you can change. Remember every little action, like the butterfly effect, can have an enormous impact overall on the quality of life and climate change and positive actions are winners.
The World of Wax
Ever since animals, plants and man existed, wax has played n important role. Today we take it for granted and either cover our bodies with it, eat it, or use it fro special occasions. Wax in one form or other is produced from both plants and animals in many forms. Its waterproofing function, antibacterial and lubricant properties ,as well as its aesthetic value, be it hair or cosmetics places it high on the list of essentials. Wax has helped us remember loved ones through effigies and given us a sense of past history through wax works.
Fertility Stones and chocolate Eggs
From Neolithic to the present times stones in different shape, forms and materials have been implicated in helping increase fertility in women.
Stones are often raised up in the ground like the stones of Stonehenge or laid flat on the ground. They also can have big or small depressions in them. Some stones are in the shape of phalluses. Others can form arches or have right holes through them where people crawl or walk or communicate by holding hands. Stones are still rubbed, touched or sat on today by female visitors in the hope that their magic will help them become pregnant and have children. Other fertility stones can be much smaller and these are often used as talisman carried in the pocket, handbag or on a necklace. Stone or crystal eggs are especially important and are still today believed to be linked with fertility and regeneration of life. Certain crystalline stones are believed to contain internal rhythms that link to the vibrational frequency of human tissue. The body needs certain feelings to function properly and enhance its performance. Belief in the power of stones can induce a calm environment, lower your blood pressure and reduces stress hormones all of which will help in successful pregnancy. Just as seeing a tasty steak can elicit more enzymes in the gut in anticipation of a good meal, seeing, touching stones or listening to those who have become pregnant by believing in their powers will influence women. These beliefs must have some credence in helping fertility as they have been used in the past and continue to be used today. This book looks at different stones as well as the link of egg shaped stones with new life, and the origins of Easter and the resurrection of Jesus. Christ. It also looks at the importance of chocolate especially eggs in helping fertile fertility. The birth rate in many countries has been falling for the last fifty years stones and chocolate could provide a way to successful pregnancy for many women today.
Clingers, Creepers and Scramblers
They had no money. Jack traded his cow for a handful of dried up beans. His mother screamed that he’d been cheated and they were ruined and took hold of the beans and threw them out of the window. The next morning his bedroom was filled with a pale green light as the sun shone through. Green hand like leaves pressed against his window. He went outside with his mother and saw that the beans had grown and their stalks were thick and spiraled around each other running up into the sky as if reaching up through the clouds to reach the sun. Jack climbed up the twining stems and found his fortune and after cutting down the beanstalk with an axe and killing the giant was able to live in luxury throughout his life.
Some plants like beans grow quicker than others moving their modified stems, leaves and roots to find the best situation for their existence. The climbing, twining bean stalk led to Jack’s success. Plants, especially climbers, have learnt how to be successful and satisfy their needs. Even Charles Darwin was fascinated by the diverse ways families of plants could move and attach themselves to their surroundings and wrote several essays on them. Families of climbers are found in Begoniaceae, Vitaceae, Leguminosae, Menispermaceae, Passifloraceae, Calamoideae and Convolvulaceae.
This book gives you some examples of how plants struggle to get to the top to maxmise their potential and produce flowers and fruits. By adapting one or several of these methods through your life you too can be successful like these plants and reach the top of the beanstalk to gain wealth and happiness but always watch out for giants.
Tails, Tales
The origin of the word tail comes from old English taegl. This is linked to the Old Norse word tagl meaning a horses tail. In Gothic tagl means hair or the twisted whip end of a rope.
How did tails come about? Bilateral symmetry (the same on each side) may have evolved in young forms of sea animals, which unlike tunicates today, swam in the seas but did not settle down as adults. They had a tail and a primitive nerve chord which was not lost as in tunicates when they settle on the sea floor.
I Herring Gull
Seaside wouldn’t be seaside without herring gulls. It would be a desolate place probably only with the noise from a few crows pecking around on the beach. Humans, just as they associate ice-cream, amusement arcades, buckets and spades and lilos etc. with the vista, regard seagulls as a trigger of past memories.
As a seagull, you can live for over forty years old but probably less in an urban environment. This book links you with the life of a herring gull looking at how you behave and the challenges that you must face in your daily life. Hopefully it will help change your view that we are not just pesky birds all out to cause damage and havoc amongst tourists.
Seaside wouldn’t be seaside without herring gulls. It would be a desolate place probably only with the noise from a few crows pecking around on the beach. Humans, just as they associate ice-cream, amusement arcades, buckets and spades and lilos etc. with the vista, regard seagulls as a trigger of past memories.
As a seagull, you can live for over forty years old but probably less in an urban environment. This book links you with the life of a herring gull looking at how you behave and the challenges that you must face in your daily life. Hopefully it will help change your view that we are not just pesky birds all out to cause damage and havoc amongst tourists.
Viking Bay
Apart from being one of the best bays in Thanet, Viking Bay in Broadstairs, Kent provides a wide variety of sea shore habitats. The central beach is fine sand, possibly originating from the Goodwin Sands off Ramsgate which needs to be preserved. Looking out to sea from the promenade. One can see to the left near the harbour are scattered rocks of flint often close to the harbour walls. The ridged harbour wall forms a habitat for weeds and shell fish. To the right surrounding a raised paddling pool and extending outwards into the sea is a platform of chalk. Natural pools are found in this chalk which can be wide and shallow or narrow and deep. These form gulleys through which the water from the paddling pool runs back into the sea. Pools and gulleys provide microhabitats allowing animals and plants to isolate themselves away from full exposure if they were on the rock surface. Behind the beach, above the beach huts are exposed chalk cliffs which are colonized by several maritime plants. Each inch of the chalk cliff is said to represent 2,500 years, so walking up the steps from the beach one is passing through a vast period of geological history.
This booklet forms a quick guide to many of the more common animals and plants that can be found in the bay. The amount and kinds of sea shore life present will vary throughout the season, from day to day, from tide to tide and year to year but whatever the time of year one cannot fail to find something new and interesting.
Go fat Go
It is always easier to gain calories than lose them. Many people today are hugely overweight. Society is accepting them as a new norm whereas in the past they could have been exhibited in a Barnham like sideshow. With this increase in size can come serious health problems.
Eating for some is just emotional hunger, a habit not a necessity. Breaking this cycle and through repetition of new habits one can create spectacularly changes in one’s health and lifestyle. Don’t end up as a lethargic, inactive, bloated mass, full of wind on a downward spiral towards a serious health disorder and certain death. This book outlines why we want to lose weight, why to some people big is beautiful and the concern of many with butt size.
Hidden from the heart but not forgotten
Today we have forgotten how much the effect of Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol had on Victorian society. Just another one of those old Victorian stories you may say.
Has the situation changed today? -the scene has changed but the ideals have not. Are there poor today? Are there rich who exploit the poor? Do people love money and is that the only thing that matters for true happiness, and where does love fit into all this?
This book attempts to outline some of the ways we think today as compared to the past. Have we actually learnt something? Perhaps not.
Pulvi Royal
Horse chestnut trees can grow to great heights. A joy to those who collect conkers or like a lot of shade. Around the 1960s the horse chestnut scale (Pulvinaria regalis) arrived in this country and began to spread. It liked other trees as well, especially limes and maples.
Local councils and the public soon became aware of Pulvi’s presence by the cotton wool like waxy covering produced by these insects along the branches. This story is about one such insect whose short life involved a lot of travelling.
The White Lily-St Mildred Patron Saint of Thanet
There is often a fine line between fact and fiction. Even reports from centuries ago can be elaborated to make events more interesting .Often the true outcomes or heroes of events or discoveries may never reach the light of day or be depicted in history books.
This book attempts to place Thanet in a time of turbulence and invasion. Romans, Saxons, Danes all have stepped foot on this island. Thanet provided an extraordinary fertile land for settlement as well as a stepping stone for further invasion across Britain. Parallel with this is the spread of Christianity already in Europe and further introduction by St Augustine landing at Ebbs Fleet and baptising the Jutish king. Within this flowering of Christianity many Abbeys were built. The one at Minster had royal patrons and was an excellent platform for the Benedictine discipline and doctrine.
There is little information on the life of St Mildred. Much written about her may have little evidence to support this. The lives of the Anglo-Saxons are also fragmentary. I have attempted to knit with fiction a role for St Mildred and her community at this time and apologise for any inconsistencies and errors made in this book.
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