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It’s liberating not to be an expert. Great to admit that there’s a million things that I simply don’t know. All I’m sure about is that I’m still curious. For example, I don’t know for sure if the Earth is warming up or that the Poles are thawing at a faster rate than the oceans… Read more
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We often get to a place of stasis or resignation in our lives. Stalemate is the endgame in Chess where the King is safe, but is cornered and trapped by his opponent’s pieces. It’s his turn to move but he is not permitted to move into a place of danger. When neither player is… Read more
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When you’re sick and tired of everybody lying to you you just want to walk away….. walk right into better days if you can just stop wanting it….. it will come to you I know you try….. but don’t try too hard when I see you cry….. it breaks my heart I won’t stop loving you…..… Read more
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Roy Stannard’s Top 25 Albums of 2009 1. Wild Beasts – Two Dancers 2. Cymbals Eat Guitars – Why there are mountains 3. Grammatics – Grammatics 4. Titus Andronicus – The Airing of Grievances 5. Richard Hawley – Truelove’s Gutter 6. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion 7. The XX – The XX 8. Bombay… Read more
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My colleague Andrew Sercombe and I had a great conversation over lunch last Tuesday about people’s fear of stepping out and following their heart in pursuit of their true passion. I came up with the title of the blog – Quitting the Fear Factory – that seemed to encapsulate that feeling of petrified stasis. Andrew… Read more
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Roy Stannard’s Albums of the Decade Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes The Veils – The Runaway Found The Dears – No Cities Left Acorn – Hope Glory Mountain Wild Beasts – Two Dancers Grammatics – Grammatics Cymbals Eat Guitars – Why there are mountains Damien Rice – O British Sea Power – Do you like… Read more
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The average woman in the UK spends 31 years of her life on a diet and six months of each year counting calories; whilst men spend 28 years of their life slimming. Over a tenth of the UK population is currently dieting and the average diet duration is 5 1/2 weeks with 50% of slimmers… Read more
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Gain a new body shape. Why weight any longer? By 2050 nine out of ten people are expected to be overweight or obese. (YouGov study on behalf of the British Society of Gastroenterology 23.11.09). Diets such as Atkins have proliferated – as have weight reduction services such as Weight Watchers and Lighter Life – and yet… Read more
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These 70s and 80s songs have been rescued from the very depths of Stannard’s Library, converted digitally from their original vinyl state and lovingly brought to your attention. Some of these artists will never record again and have not been washed up on the beach of any long forgotten compilation. I humbly offer them here… Read more
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