Professor J P Hudson offered a prize to anyone who could submit a paper for publication without … a spelling mistake, or a punctuation error, or an unclear phrase. And I don’t think he ever had to pay out the prize.
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I was amused when I saw this in a local shop window a couple of years ago. Sometimes we’re not quite as good with words as we should be, and right at the start I admit that I’m just as bad as anyone else. But this one did give me a chuckle. It just begs the question,
‘So.. er… What would unconscious eating be, exactly?’
Just my silly sense of fun!
I think what happens, ever so easily, is that I word something in a way that’s not clear and then cannot, myself, spot the issue. It needs a fresh eye, a fresh mind to spot mistakes like this.
When I worked at Long Ashton Research Station in the 1970s, the Director, Professor J P Hudson, offered a prize to anyone who could submit a paper for publication without him spotting a spelling mistake, or a punctuation error, or an unclear phrase. And I don’t think he ever had to pay out the prize (£5 I think, quite a lot in those days).
Sometimes we need to see what we have written from a new perspective in order to fix or avoid simple mistakes. And sometimes we need the same fresh look at our habits, likes and dislikes, relationships with others, understanding of science, what we believe about the world, the people we meet, and not least, what we believe to be true about spiritual things.
It’s far too easy to go along familiar pathways in our lives without seeing the need to question what we think and say and do.
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The horizon is, perhaps, 2 km away, you can see buildings and trees out there, they give a good clue to scale. Some of the clouds might be a bit further away.
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This is a view of the local neighbourhood, you can only see a short distance – little more than 380 000 km or about 250 000 miles.
Uh?!
Can you see why I wrote about seeing 380 000 km? Is there something you missed in the photo? Look more closely…
The horizon is, perhaps, 2 km away, you can see buildings and trees out there, they give a good clue to scale. Some of the clouds might be a bit further away. But that little white dot near the centre of the photo is the Moon, the furthest thing you can see in this picture.
The scale of our universe is nothing short of astonishing! The Moon is just our nearest neighbour in terms of the Solar System. All of the other planets are much, much further away than our friendly little Moon. Then consider that the entire Solar System is just a little speck in terms of our galaxy, The Milky Way. And if you travelled the Milky Way from end to end you’d still have seen only a very, very, very insignificant fraction of everything else that’s out there. My goodness this is a big place!
If you want to get a feel for this, try Scale of the Universe. It starts with things of everyday size and you can slide left (smaller) or right (larger).
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If his apprentices had been given a vote, they would all have called for Jesus to stay with them. Of course from our perspective it’s clear that the sending of the Holy Spirit was the necessary next step in the life of the church. But that’s very much the benefit of hindsight!
From what Jesus tells them next, the future sounds pretty dreadful; but there’s purpose in the telling. What he has already told them was to prevent them from giving up. There’s nothing like hard times to discourage us, and Jesus is well aware of that. But now, knowing time is short, he explains how bad it will get and the great hope that remains.
Jesus explains that people who know neither him nor his Father will reject his followers and even murder them, thinking they are serving Yahweh in doing so. Now that Jesus is leaving the disciples he’s telling them things he’d shielded them from previously.
Where next?
Jesus has told them several times before that he is leaving them, he’s well aware that they haven’t asked where he plans to go and are already feeling sad and downcast (even abandoned) at losing him. It’s easy to imagine them thinking they’ve failed in some way, that he’s going to look for better followers somewhere else. So he explains that his departure will be good for them because if he stays the ‘Advocate’ won’t come. They won’t understand what this means until Pentecost when the Holy Spirit will fill them and a lot of mysteries will begin to be answered in their minds and hearts. For some reason he says that unless he leaves them, he won’t be able to send this ‘Advocate’.
If his apprentices had been given a vote, they would all have called for Jesus to stay with them. Of course from our perspective it’s clear that the sending of the Holy Spirit was the necessary next step in the life of the church. But that’s very much the benefit of hindsight!
Sin, righteousness, and judgement
The world (and especially the Jewish world in which the disciples lived) knew that sin, righteousness and judgement were important things. The Law and the Prophets were full of these three ideas – from Genesis right through to Malachi. Mankind is sinful because of disobedience, sinful people cannot claim any sort of righteousness, and without sacrifice for sin all are judged and found wanting.
Jesus now tells them that the world has all three of these important things wrong – completely wrong!
In the case of sin, people are wrong because they don’t believe in Jesus, He came to deal with sin once and for all, but many of the learned people saw Jesus himself as sinful, a blasphemer, misinformed, deserving of arrest and punishment – even a death sentence!
In the case of righteousness, people were wrong because Jesus was now returning to the Father where he could no longer be seen. Jesus himself is our righteousness and he represents us in the Father’s presence.
And in the case of judgement, people were wrong because they’d backed the wrong horse. They’d chosen ‘The Prince of this World’ who was now condemned. And who might that be? Not Jesus, clearly, but the Evil One, the opposer of everything good, who tried to condemn Yahweh but is now himself condemned.
Get sin, righteousness and judgement wrong and you have no hope! Get these right, follow Jesus, and it will all become clear. What a revelation!
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With the coming of the railways coal could be delivered more cheaply by steam train, delivered to the gas work’s private siding from the nearby Watermoon Station.
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Cirencester Gasworks had its heyday before homes, offices and industries had electricity supplies. The gas was manufactured near this building on a site alongside the canal. Coal was brought in by barge and heated to create what was called ‘coal gas’ or ‘town gas’, coke, a sticky, bituminous liquid called ‘coal tar’, and ammonia. The coke was sold as fuel for industry and for domestic boilers. The gas was stored under pressure in huge, squat gas-holders floating on, and sealed by water; the stored, pressurised gas was fed to homes and businesses through underground pipes. Coal tar was good for surfacing roads, preserving timber, waterproofing buildings and boat hulls, and many other purposes. Ammonia was used as a cleaning agent.
The building in the photo, now a private residence, housed the gas company’s offices, I believe. Its curved end mimicked the shape of the gas holders nearby. This was an industrial part of the town. With the coming of the railways coal could be delivered more cheaply by steam train, delivered to the gas work’s private siding from the nearby Watermoon Station. The canal became less and less profitable as more and more transport migrated to rail.
When: 26th September 2023 Where: Watermoor, Cirencester
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Everything on this planet is recycled sooner or later, if not by us, then eventually by nature. Even city buildings, bridges, roads and all of out technologies will go the same way in the end.
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The sun is setting over these old sheds in more than one sense, not only is the sun getting lower in the sky, but the sheds themselves are no longer useful, have been roped off as they’re unsafe, and will fall down completely in the next few years or decades.
There must have been a time when these structures were a handy place to store farm equipment, maintain and repair things, perhaps make tea or eat lunch before starting the afternoon’s jobs. At a guess it might have started as a smaller building, extended over the years as more space was required. It had glazed windows (though some of the glass has fallen out) and must have been weatherproof earlier in its existence. Perhaps it was even painted, though more likely creosoted.
The corrugated iron roof is rusty and most likely lets in the rain. Various fungi and bacteria will be attacking the timber. Assuming nobody dismantles what remains and removes it, what will happen as the years go by?
Everything will return to the earth from which it originally came. Iron will rust and crumble to powdery iron oxides of one kind or another, the corrugated roof, nails and screws holding the timbers together, door and window hinges, they’ll all go the same way. If there are any brass fittings they will last a lot longer, but eventually they’ll end up as oxides of copper and zinc. Glass will last a very long time (many thousands of years) but will be ground down to smaller and smaller sizes with any disturbance. The putty used to hold the window glass in place will also crumble away to clay as the remnants of oil it contains are digested and metabolised by bacteria. And the commonest material used to build the structure will be one of the fastest to decay; all the timber in the framework, walls, floors, doors and window frames will be digested away and crumble to dust as well.
We ourselves will end the same way whether simply buried in the ground after death or turned to ash by cremation. It’s true for all living things, we develop from one cell, become many cells working together, and die through accident or disease or else of old age. Everything on this planet is recycled sooner or later, if not by us, then eventually by nature. Even city buildings, bridges, roads and all of our technologies will go the same way in the end.
We don’t look forward to our inevitable dissolution of course; but the awareness of it, whether we are young or old, should encourage us to do what we can in life to help others, care for the sick, give good advice to those who seek it, and be kind and generous in everything we do.
When: 27th September 2023 Where: Cirencester
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This YouTube video discusses what would happen to our various structures in the most unlikely event that everyone suddenly vanished for no apparent reason:
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July 2024 (6 months before publishing this article)
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Here’s a touch of July during chilly January! Last year we decided to buy a greenhouse for overwintering house plants, growing cuttings, and extending the season for things like tomatoes. The kit of parts arrived some time ago, and finally it was being installed on the base prepared earlier.
We were in Yorkshire on 1st, stayed with Debbie and Steve for the night, visited Beth and Paz on 2nd, and then drove home in the afternoon.
Later in the month I made good progress scanning old photos; this is a great memory jogger, helping me piece together some of my life and that of those around me. There’s nothing better than documentary information, whether that’s photographic, video, sound, or in written form. Some of the results appear in these Blast from the past posts.
The image shows an original transparency alongside the scanned version. The colour match looks pretty good.
We had some crisp, frosty conditions during January that made the countryside look really beautiful.
Towards the end of the month I discovered some reddish bumps on my left shoulder, mostly at the front with a few at the back. I had various thoughts about what it might be, and in the end found out it was shingles. I had no discomfort or pain, just the rash, and the GP prescribed a course of antivirals and antihistamine.
It was strange to think that the virus had been inactive in some nerve cells since I was a child!
I visited my friend Stephen in Gloucester Hospital, and he seemed in good spirits and to be doing well, he was looking forward to getting back home as soon as possible after his surgery.
I managed to get some video of our cat, Erin, chasing her tail. Cats and dogs both do this sometimes, especially when they are young. And I was trying different methods of making still images from my old VHS videos that I had on my laptop as ISO images. The VLC media player seemed the way to go and I was pleased with some of the results I was getting.
I was tracking the progress of several space missions; Dawn was closing in on the minor planet Ceres in the Asteroid Belt, while New Horizons was beginning the science phase of its mission to Pluto and Charon, and there was hope that the Philae Lander would soon wake up.
I had a new driving licence through the post from DVLA. Unlike my current licence, this one proudly displayed the EU emblem in the upper left. Like almost half the voters in the referendum, I voted to remain in the EU. Leaving was a terrible mistake.
The demolition of the building where I first worked on joining Unilever was almost complete. And the very last piece still standing contained the ground-floor corner window where my desk had been! It seemed strange to see the old Knowledge Systems Group office (KSG) vanish! By the end of January there was nothing left.
Office still life
The photo (right) shows items on my desk on 24th, including a mug of tea, a Conference pear, my Samsung Steel phone, notebook, roller pen – and a piece of the old building rescued from the cleared site!
I was busy with some decorating in the hall, stairs and landing of our house in St Neots, there were cracks that became very wide when I scraped out the loose plaster, so those had to be filled and sanded down before I could begin to apply paint. But by the end of the month things were looking a lot better and we preferred the new colour to the pale yellow we had used before.
Unilever was restructuring the computing departments within research and this affected the Web Team where I was working. It seemed we would survive as a group, and with a similar remit, but within a very different organisational structure and changed leadership. We were in the process of understanding how we’d be affected going forward.
On Sunday 23rd I flew to Boston with my boss, Pete Keeley. We were picked up from home by a Unilever car and driven to Heathrow for a business class flight, then from the airport by cab to our rooms in the Boston Park Plaza. We were attending a Sun Microsystems conference on their Java Development Tools and the various uses for Java. There was a heavy snowfall while we were in Boston and we tried walking through it to explore the city before flying home; that was quite an experience!
At home, I walked some of the nearby streets and footpaths around the old A1 at Crosshall on the edge of St Neots. Although I’d got my bearings pretty much for the main streets in the town, some of the smaller footpaths were still new to me.
Judy had recovered well from surgery and an issue with chemotherapy for her bowel cancer and returned to work at Cotham Grammar School teaching biology. She very much wanted to teach until June to see her students through their exams. Debbie, Beth and I supported her as best we could, but teaching is a tough, stressful, tiring career and I think we all wondered if it might be too much. Nevertheless, she got off to a great start with her usual determination.
World events: Austria, Finland and Sweden joined the European Union; and Valeri Polyakov completed a year aboard the Mir space station, a duration record.
I began designing the LARS System configuration for the PCs at work. It would be beneficial to have all the research station’s machines set up the same way so staff would have a familiar environment wherever they were working.
Judy ordered some double-glazed windows to replace the worst of the house’s original decaying wooden window frames. This was a much needed improvement.
A severe storm caused damage to trees and buildings overnight on 25th January at the Research Station. Trees fell or had branches torn off and roofs were damaged.
World events: Commercial customers first had access to the internet in the USA and the Netherlands; and the Morris Worm caused issues on Unix computers.
I was the Computer Representative for the Plant Science Division at Long Ashton Research Station. This involved liaising between the Computing Group at Rothamsted and the research staff at LARS. Desktop personal computers were just beginning to appear, but computing at Long Ashton depended on the Research Council’s VAX/VMS systems.
Judy was teaching Biology at Cotham Grammar School in Bristol. Debbie was nine-years-old and Beth was six, they were collected from school every day by a friend and then Judy picked them up on her way home.
World events: The Internet’s Domain Name System was created; and Ronald Reagan was sworn in for a second term as US President.
One of our research papers appeared in January, based on work done in 1978, here are the details:
Williams RR, Arnold GM, Flook VA, Jefferies CJ. The effect of picking date on blossoming and fruit set in the following year for the apple cv Bramley’s Seedling. Journal of Horticultural Science. 1980 Jan 1;55(4):359-62.
I enjoyed the scientific work while it lasted. We didn’t know it at the time, but the Research Station was to close 23 years later and is now a housing estate.
World events:GPS time began on 6th January; and Andrei Sakharov was arrested in Moscow.
During this period I had gathered and processed information for my master’s thesis on plum flower and fruit development. The experimental work was complete, a lot of photographic processing was behind me and I had just had copies of the thesis bound and submitted in December. Now it was a matter of waiting for the viva and a decision by Bristol University.
Judy was expecting a baby in March and she had made a basketwork cane crib as well as knitting various baby clothes – all in non-committal yellow and white as we had no idea whether to expect a boy or a girl.
World events: Guilty verdicts were returned over Watergate; and work on the Channel Tunnel was abandoned.
My final year project at Bath University was an experiment in propagation of Bergenia, and I needed to go in over the holidays to take measurements. After New Year, but before our new terms began, Judy was able to come to Bath with me on one of these occasions.
I began my second term in the lower sixth at Cirencester Grammar School, studying chemistry, biology and physics and additional maths.
I was finding A Level Chemistry tougher than I’d expected. It was one of my favourite subjects at O Level when everything had seemed very logical and precise, but organic chemistry was new and seemed more flexible and varied. Physics was OK, but getting more mathematical, and biology was completely new as I had not been able to do all three at O Level.
In January it was back to school for my second term in the First Form at Cirencester Grammar School. We were all properly in our stride by now while my sister, Cindy was in her fourth year at Querns School, and Ruth and Rachael were at home with Mummy, not at school at all yet. I was eleven-years-old, Cindy was eight, Ruth four, and Rachael three.
The page from my maths exercise book suggests I was pretty good at adding decimals!
World events: Construction of the Aswan Dam began in Egypt; and Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh descended almost 11 km into the Mariana Trench in the bathyscaphe Trieste.
I was six and in my second year at Querns School, starting the second term.
Daddy worked at Watermoor Nursery as the foreman assisted by Miss Brown. They took cuttings, split larger herbaceous plants, and kept the rows hoed and watered. They would have had extra help at busy times. The recipe for John Innes compost would have been used by them around this time.
World events:USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine began sea trials; and the Soviet Union announced the end of the war between the USSR and Germany.
I was eighteen-months-old at the end of January, walking and talking no doubt. We must have been getting settled in our new council house, 17 Queen Anne’s Road on the Beeches Estate. I imagine we had mostly second-hand furniture or cheap utility items.
This is the cover of a seed catalogue of the period, rescued I believe by my father from the office of my Uncle, R W Jefferies after his death. He was in charge of the seed department and had great stacks of documents on his desk, recent items on top and older material buried further down. It all had to be cleared, of course, but Dad and his brother Bob kept some of the more interesting items.
Mum and Dad wrote often to one another, a phone call was possible, but didn’t always go through, was difficult, and not very private.
On radar, Dad mentions tracking a group of 5 V1 cruise missiles (‘Buzz Bombs’) on 3rd January, and a group of more than two hundred German aircraft on 16th. He heard on 17th that Warsaw had been taken by the Russians.
On Wednesday 24th he travelled to Cirencester by train on leave, returning on duty in early February.
World events: The Soviet Union began the East Prussian Offensive, to eliminate German forces there; and Adolf Hitler made his last public speech on radio.
Mike (aka ‘Tigger’ and later my Dad) was thirteen-years-old and starting a new term at either Cirencester Grammar School, or Rendcomb College. Lilias (later my Mum) would have been eleven, living in Coagh, County Tyrone with her mother Selina and little sister, Annabelle (about two). Lilias would also have have been starting a new school term, in her case at the village school.
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I have a lot of old negatives and colour transparencies, and little by little I’m scanning these on an Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner. It gives excellent results.
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My digital photo collection is growing – in two ways.
On the one hand I have my Pixel 7 phone and take many photos with that, and I also have an old Canon G16 with basic telephoto zoom capabilities that provides much better results than the phone can manage in some circumstances. Unlike the phone it can’t fit in my pocket. Horses for courses.
On the other hand I’ve been copying old photos from years past. My photograpic hobby began when I was nine-years-old, I was given a Kodak Brownie and a roll of black and white (B&W) 127 format negative film (probably an Ilford film). Later I used a Kodak Starmite with flash and two aperture settings, and used it for my first colour shots as well as B&W, also on 127 format. When I was sixteen I graduated to 35 mm format using a Kodak Retinette camera with a range of apertures and shutter speeds available. And finally, of course, I moved to a single lens reflex camera.
As a result, I have a lot of old negatives and colour transparencies, and little by little I’m scanning these on an Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner. It gives excellent results.
Today’s photo shows some of the 35 mm transparencies in a storage box. The different designs of mount (some plastic, some card) come from several different film manufacturers. Things were so different back then. You had to buy a film from a chemists or from a photographic shop, load it in the camera, and expose the photos. Usually a film would provide 8 or 12 photos (127 roll film) or 24 or 36 photos (35 mm film). It was a costly hobby because film wasn’t cheap and there were development costs to consider as well. As a result,you might make a film last for weeks or even months.
The exposed film had to be taken for development to a local chemist, or sent back to the manufacturer for 35 mm processing. And then – finally – you could check the results.
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The tree was topped, the branches trimmed off, and [the sculptor] was asked to work on the standing trunk in situ. He rose to this challenge and came up trumps, the photo shows some of the detail.
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We have a skilled sculptor in Cirencester who specialises in carving large pieces of timber. He was called in work on a tree that had died in Cirencester Park. But instead of felling the tree and then asking him to work on the horizontal trunk (something he’s done to great effect in the past), this time the tree was topped, the branches trimmed off, and he was asked to work on the standing trunk in situ. He rose to this challenge and came up trumps, the photo shows some of the detail.
I never cease to be astonished at the way an artist can imagine a finished work before it exists and bring it to life in any medium – oil paint, watercolour, wood, stone. It’s a kind of magic. The human brain is so creative. People have been doing this kind of thing for many generations; think of Michelangelo, or the stone and bronze artists of Greece and Rome. No animal is capable of converting material into an image like this, or even imagining that such a thing is possible.
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They understood that some things are good and others are evil, but their thinking was confused. So, very often, is ours. The creator can see into the hearts of the created.
Jesus begins here by saying something extraordinary, he tells his followers that people are only guilty of sin because he has spoken to them. This is just how it was at the beginning; in Eden there was no possibility of guilt until the man and woman had eaten the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. We need to dig deep here to understand more clearly.
They were created naked, they walked in the garden with Yahweh naked, and he said that everything he had made was good (Genesis 1:26-31, specifically v 31). So we cannot claim it is bad, or wrong, or evil to be naked in the presence of others. That idea, which is very commonly held, perhaps especially by those who call themselves Christians, is simply wrong. There is no evidence to support it!
But when they gained the knowledge of good and evil, they were ashamed in his presence and hid themselves when he came to walk and talk with them. Yahweh didn’t come to look at their bodies, he came to look at their hearts! They understood that some things are good and others are evil, but their thinking was confused. So, very often, is ours. The creator can see into the hearts of the created. They wanted to hide their disobedient hearts from him, but that is impossible; instead the best they could manage was to hide their bodies and ignore their disobedience. It’s a form of ‘making an excuse’, hiding what Yahweh pronounced good, because of their feelings of shame. Let’s hide whatever we can in the hope that the things we can’t hide will be overlooked – sorry, it won’t work, it’s never worked.
If I’m not able to see the reality of good and evil in my heart, that does not permit me to pretend to fix it by cloaking the reality with a more comfortable and palatable alternative. The guiltiness of a sinful heart runs deep and cannot just be covered over. Because Jesus did things that no mere, guilty human being could do (healing a Jewish leper for example, or casting out a dumb demon, or healing a person born blind*), they turned against both Jesus and his Father. Even this fulfilled the law! And notice that Jesus says, ‘Their law’, he does not say ‘My law’ or ‘My Father’s Law’ (v 25). That too is significant!
A reminder
Jesus reminds them that a master is greater than his servants. We’ll be treated as he was if we are his followers. He’s reminded them of this before – more than once. John just mentioned it. But Jesus’ preference is to call us, not servants, but his friends (John 15:15).
The coming Spirit
The chapter ends with Jesus announcing that the Spirit will come. Jesus calls his Spirit ‘the Advocate’, someone who will argue the case for us, someone who will remind us of everything we need to know and remember and do and be. And we must do what the Spirit does – testify about Jesus. Remember what he says elsewhere, ‘Without me you can do … nothing.’ But if we have the Spirit of Christ living in us, we can do anything he calls us to!
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Such beautiful, peaceful scenery. Trees upon trees, fields upon fields, mountain upon mountains – and yes, houses, farms, villages. What a lovely place to live!
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At the beginning of August, on our way north for our family holiday, we went for a walk at Slieve Gullion Forest Park, and I took this photo. Such beautiful, peaceful scenery. Trees upon trees, fields upon fields, mountain upon mountains – and yes, houses, farms, villages. What a lovely place to live!
We also drove round the ring of Gullion, and that was another amazing experience. A long climb up a narrow road glorious views from the parking spots, and no problems passing other vehicles as it’s a one-way system. It would also make a fine, long walk if you have enough time.
When: 1st August 2024 Where: Belfast, Northern Ireland
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Journeys of Heart and Mind 
