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- peter is a 51 year old single guy from Maidstone, England, UK.
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If you seek some well-heeled and materialistic person please look else where.
If for that matter you seek someone who is spiritual, non materialistic, Look
no further. I walk a deeply spiritual path, though I do not adhere to any major or minor religion.
I am a real man not the macho type. And have been called dangerously
intellectual, an amazing man, a great bear of a man and just delicious.
I do not seek a mix of soul mate, lover, friend and companion etc.
This is a very rare thing and one is lucky to find it.
If you seek this mix then please look elsewhere but I fear you may never find.
I enjoy so much in this life.
From reading the works of Rumi and Tagore to eating dark chocolate and making bread.
This is only a small reflection of me to know me more why not get in contact.
Let's see if we walk the same path together.
Peace love and light.x.x.
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Once I wrote an article in the British baker it is the trade journal for bakers but these days it is but a former shadow of itself for many years it was the size of a small novel with ads for work that had to be categorised into regions now your lucky if the ads cover two pages.
Well many years ago the early 1990s I wrote a piece about the skills shortage and how it would eventually effect the trade and it has. There are no real bakers as such now my generation is the last that have been taught how to make traditional dough's.
There are craftsmen bakers out there but they are so rare you would stand more chance of taking a trip to Ladahk and seeing a snow leopard.
Well it seems that my trade is not the only one that has suffered. Here in the UK there are many buildings and places that are old and as with things they need repairing.
And there by hangs a tale we have very few people with the requisite skills to repair and make good any structural faults.
But it is not only in construction but I feel right across the board these skills are being lost.
For many years there was a culture of why should I learn a skill when I can earn loads a money being factory fodder. Sadly our industrial base has moved to the Far East and the Asian subcontinent.
And those that were earning a lot of dosh are now drawing benefit. The overriding reason I ceased trading was the fact the two factories relocated to Egypt and I lost 50% of my trade. The baker up the road around a mile from me lost 90%.
But it is the skills that have been lost over the years people who could thatch make certain types of brick etc.
The Bodgers have all but gone now, sometimes you may see one as a country fair attraction. Bodgers by the way made furniture out of green wood and other wooden objects.
As I have said and do say quite often to people all things are temporary but our knowledge can be carried through the generations. Watching Ray Mears `wild food' it struck me what knowledge we have lost and how difficult it is to pick up the threads even taking a lead from hunter gatherers from around the world the skill we once had has been lost. One cannot make a Birch Bark canoe from a book of instructions it is impossible.
Like wise many skills can only ever be taught for though the basics are written down there are nuances that can only be handed down from master to apprentice. I am talking about real apprentices here not this terrible modern equivalent that teaches nothing and how can you learn something in 9 months it took me 7 years and even now I learn things.
We have but a few seasons to pass on knowledge around 80 summers it is not a very long time in the great scheme of things. But if we pass on what we know that base of knowledge can grow. I know how to long line for fish and how to catch pheasants with out resorting to a shotgun, just treacle and a bag. These were taught to me by my father who was taught by his in turn . OK there are a bit dodgy and I do not do these.
But trade skills are being lost and we will be all the poorer for it especially in a cultural sense. And who know in a survival sense as well for when we lose a skill we lose a part of our collective soul or spirit. We are use to pressing buttons to make something but when the button breaks what then?
I am proud of my skills and will pass on to those who wish to learn and listen.........
Well it is a fine evening a warm one and time to rid the sleeping space of the quilt I think.
I am off for bite to eat and to wonder at this world of ours and it abundant plant life and what is and is not edible here abouts lol.
Be well and the sweetest of blessings to you all .
Blessed be, peter XXXXX
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