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Enquire Within – A Victorian adventure

On September 7, 2009 By Paul Fillingham

In the early 1970′s my adopted Grandmother Alice Meason gave me a book that bore the intriguing title ‘Enquire Within Upon Everything’. She had been presented with the book in 1915 as a reward for good attendance at the Rosemary Girls’ “Evening” School. Although the book’s origins went back to the Victorian era, some of [...]

A fist full of graphite

On August 6, 2009 By Paul Fillingham

I’m reliably informed that a Creative Nottinghamshire Blog is taking shape. The site advocates the development of Web2.0 communities in the context of social inclusion or ‘Digital inclusion’ as it is known in political circles. I tried to explain the idea of ‘Digital Inclusion’ to my Dad. He’s an intelligent man and given that he [...]

History is toast – 1967

On July 8, 2001 By Paul Fillingham

An evening of email postings and desperately dull websites. I’ve got a cold, creative block and I’m craving food for comfort. It’s midnight and toast is as good as it’s gets. Even though I realise there’s a risk of alerting my sleeping family to my midnight excesses, I turn up the dial on the toaster [...]