Dancing around the dead…All my prejudice and pre-concieved notions just got thoroughly jiggled.
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Larry Whybrow-Gardiner’s Profile  |  Create your badge Visit My Liverpool Chamber Tomorrow the city of Belfast will get a new Lord Mayor. One of the last duties performed by the outgoing post holder was to welcome a group from Common Purpose in Liverpool. In his opening remarks he mentioned that Liverpool, Glasgow and Belfast share some traditions. Most recently those shared traditions have included a sectarian divide. The outgoing Lord Mayor for Belfast is a lifelong Sinn Fein member... Read Full Story
Don’t panic!….Everything’s under control!….Now how would you like to settle your bill?
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Larry Whybrow-Gardiner’s Profile  |  Create your badge Visit My Liverpool Chamber I started and ended my day at the Police headquarters. Most of the afternoon was spent in Europe’s third largest male prison. There were conversations with a prison governor, a human rights lawyer and a deputy chief constable alongside fascinating chats with assorted representatives drawn from the great and the good….All very enlightening…. BUT the really interesting part of my day came with meeting some... Read Full Story
It is here that the real danger lies!
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Larry Whybrow-Gardiner’s Profile  |  Create your badge Visit My Liverpool Chamber I’m partisan. I declare an interest. My values are secular, socialist, libertarian, humanist and republican. I’ve been around the block a few times and picked up a few dents along the way and, most important of all I just KNOW something; and its something important. I live in the UK. The two biggest political parties here are the Conservatives and the Labour Party. There will probably be a general... Read Full Story
All that is really necessary is that each of us do our best and each person should do their bit. Nothing more is required!
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Larry Whybrow-Gardiner’s Profile  |  Create your badge Visit My Liverpool Chamber I’m not an educated man. My education unfortunately has a few bits missing. It was, I suppose, what we call in my country, ‘a second chance education.’ Basically this means I flunked school first time around and then took a second chance, ‘a second bite of the cherry’ later on in life. In my particular case, because I grew up in children’s homes, I moved around too much to really settle in a school... Read Full Story
‘All very interesting I hear you say…Quite entertaining; some of it!…Why on earth is he telling us all this?
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Larry Whybrow-Gardiner’s Profile  |  Create your badge I haven’t quite got the hang of this blogging lark. The temptation, once I get started is to just keep on writing. I also hope that just by starting the writing something worth saying will eventually emerge. Sometimes I guess I just need to click the ‘publish’ button before I end up writing a book and saying precisely nothing. There’s actually quite a lot to say on the subject on my mind right now. I’ve just been watching the first... Read Full Story
“I’ll stand up and be counted when I’m feeling a bit more courageous than I feel right now.”
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Launching the party’s election campaign, Mr Farage said the “humiliation” of being beaten by UKIP would force Mr Brown to quit. Mr Farage also claimed the best way to defeat the BNP was to vote UKIP. – BBC News Yeeah! Right!….I don’t think so! We can challenge this. We can choose a different perspective. We can decide that our people deserve a better choice and our children deserve a better future. What do we wait for??? We wait for our fear and distress to go away….We say to ourselves... Read Full Story
Take a walk on the BRIGHT side…
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I was born in 1952. I was born in London but was raised mostly in the country. As a child I can remember that milk was delivered to our doorstep in glass bottles each day. Horses and carts were still surprisingly commonplace when I was a child too; coal was delivered on a horse drawn wagon and beer was still being delivered by a horse drawn brewery ‘dray!’ People were routinely delivered to their destinations in railway carriages hauled by steam locomotives right up to the time that I left... Read Full Story
Getting connected
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It’s been decades since I was a small child but way back then I learned to do something that really wasn’t helpful. It felt that going after the people I liked the look of was too scary….and so I stopped doing it.  I stopped stepping in too close in case the other person got scared too. I didn’t want to risk the chance that they would pull back or that they would reject me. It still feels like a big risk for me to reach out and make friends. I still have to push myself. Recently I started... Read Full Story

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