Ray Georgeson's blog

Make do and mend -a wartime austerity theme for today's world

It's not every day that one is asked to don a wartime surplus tin hat and sing for your supper, but that is exactly what I was asked to do by my friends at LARAC at their Celebration Awards Dinner last week.  The theme for this year's awards was austerity, and a 1940s wartime theme was enthusiastically embraced by many guests who made an effort to fund vintage clothes and really create a g

The preciousness and fragility of what we value

It feels like an understatement to say that the world feels like a fragile place at the moment.  What with urban unrest at home, economic uncertainty, the crisis of deficit, famine in East Africa, and radiation in Japan to name but a few, there is plenty to be worried about. 

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