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Do You Really Need Round Wheels? You need to clean and inspect your wheels before you go to the track. Every time. You normally have the wheels off to bleed the brakes so clean the wheels and look for problems. Check the stud holes for wear, and pay particular attention to the lug nut …

You don't want a wheel falling off your trailer. That could be one very bad day. Besides a wheel bearing failure you could easily have the lug nuts loosen. The next thing you know the trailer wheel passes you as you go down the road.  The torque setting for your trailers wheels is generally gre…

Battery Types As long as the battery starts the car we just ignore it. When it finally stops working we think that buying a bigger, and better, battery can solve the problem. How about just taking care of the battery you currently have in the car? Novel as this idea might be it’s worth some c…

I am sitting in the summer sun outside the barn that has been converted to create a schoolroom for twenty children, inside there is a high-ceilinged schoolroom, two toilets and at one end, a kitchen.  A redwood tree towers over the building, one of the landmark trees of the area, and there is a sti…

Ten years ago I used to take our dog walking these country lanes.  His large, shaggy soulful frame is long gone and I am reminded, as I take the same walk, of his beautiful friendship.  This time through the heavy silent mist of a mid-November afternoon I am walking with an Indian friend from Canad…

This is the draft beginning of a book I am working on.  Any comments gratefully received. Educating the Spirit: changing the way we think. Chapter One:     Young Leaves In the evening we are taken on a boat ride along the River Ganges into the city of Varanasi. This majestic river is soiled by the …

It is cold, very cold and the show is lying heavily beside the roads, on the rooftops and on the pavements.  Krakow in Poland is a beautiful city and in the throes of a cold winter when the clear blue skies allow the sun to glisten on the long icicles that hang from the rooftops there is tremendous…

“Listen.” “I am listening.” “What do you hear?” “Nothing.” “How can you hear nothing?  Listen again.” “I can hear a dog bark….  A car go past….  I can hear the rain on the window…. I can hear my neighbours breathing……..  I can hear my breathing……..I can hear my heart beating………I can hear the blood …

Write poetry - good, bad indifferent.  Write poetry - think of the spaces between words - think of meaning. A  Song:          Last Will and Testament I don’t want to Die a hard-wired, concrete, Plastic-tubed, metallic death. I don’t want to Be surrounded with mechanical sounds drowning Out the voic…

W e are in the rainforest of Southern India among the giant roots, the elephant dung, the unidentifiable song, the close heat and the leeches.  These attach themselves unobtrusively and gorge on our blood, transforming their sleek bodies to grotesque inflations of their former selves, clinging to …

This was written in 1990, 19 years after I first travelled to India. This proved to be the first of many visits since.  I consider my many trips to India to have been an enormous privilege where the intensity of learning has been balanced by an apparent constant lack of comprehension.  And where th…

He is sixteen years old and from Turkey; she is also sixteen and comes from St. Lucia. Shaded from the ferocious Rajasthan sun by the branches of a few trees, a group of young people and three adults from a school in England are visiting India to explore and observe what life is like in a different…