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Comment on Welcome by Elke Hanman

Elke Hanman — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:48:03 +0000

Dear Mark, What a brilliant idea……travel safely and may it go well!! Love Elke Hanman

Comment on Visas and Jabs by Viola

Viola — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:24:35 +0000

Great! BRING IT ON!!!

Comment on Molly May and the Warwick Ring, Day Two by Mari-Elna Louw

Mari-Elna Louw — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:33:16 +0000

Hi Mark
All the best for your very interesting, great future plans! I like the pictures! Your were a beautiful little boy! I decided to retire from Social Services at the end of March 2012 and will go full time private with Richard and Sally Worthing Davies at Swift Counselling. We will go back to South Africa and our children in October this year. Hope to see you again before we leave for SA. Best wishes.
Mari-Elna Louw.

Comment on Yugoslavia Autumn 1988 by mbrayne

mbrayne — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:10:54 +0000

Dangerous political territory, Tim, on which after many years on the patch one develops one’s views. As you know. The psychology of the Balkans conflict fascinates me even more, now I’m a therapist, than it did in the old correspondent days. As Freud was the first to identify, we accuse others of the things that most discomfit us in ourselves – and proceed to bring about the very things we most fear. Individually and as a nation – that is, until we become just a tad more conscious. One wishes that nations would go into therapy and sort their stuff.

Comment on Yugoslavia Autumn 1988 by Tim Bowen

Tim Bowen — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:51:57 +0000

True, of course, that at the time it was mainly Albanian. This was mainly due to the incredible difference in brith-rate between ethnic Serbs (around 2.2, the European average at the time) and the Albanians at over 7.5. Kosovo was the cradle of Serbia and Serbs still feel very strongly that they were forced out by an unholy alliance of Islamists and NATO. Interesting to note that a different kind of ethnic cleansing is going on now that the boot is on the other foot so to speak.
An intriguing interview nonetheless. Those were momentous times, probably for all the wrong reasons!
Tim B

Comment on Welcome by Interview with Mark Brayne | crankitupcymru

Interview with Mark Brayne | crankitupcymru — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:46:26 +0000

[...] epic 4,170-mile ride from his home in the Cotswolds to Budapest in Hungary, which is chronicled on Psychlotherapist – his blog about cycling, therapy and climate [...]

Comment on Round the Warwick Ring with our canalboat Molly May by Warwick Canal Ring, Days 9 and 10 « The Psychlotherapist

Warwick Canal Ring, Days 9 and 10 « The Psychlotherapist — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:33:18 +0000

[...] around the Warwick Ring canal system in central England in late September 2011. Best, probably, to scroll down and read from Day One through to here. Or, be surprised and do it [...]

Comment on Arrival of Cotswolds Shepherd’s Hut in Wychcroft Garden by January. A time for reflection «

January. A time for reflection « — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:40:54 +0000

[...] of 2010 is done. My MA in creative writing is also done. And I have a new office in the garden. A shepherd’s hut, which arrived a few days before Christmas, complete with woodburner and bed upon which to [...]

Comment on Guinness is not always good for you… by Linn

Linn — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:02:23 +0000

Well, I’m not back to full riding yet and know it’s not quite time, but I am forever a total optimist! I hope you both get to do the tandem tour this summer. I’ll be happy to get a few miles in now and again between now and summertime. It’s still a big MAYBE for the first organized ride of the season…..we’ll see!

Good luck to you!

Comment on Guinness is not always good for you… by mbrayne

mbrayne — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 10:41:19 +0000

Good to hear from you Linn – and good luck with the healing.

I was impressed to read that you’re cycling again – I’m still at the stage where anything more than a couple of miles fires the hand and foot and T1 up something rotten. But getting there, and the specialist this week confirmed it was indeed the Saturday Night Syndrome-style trapped and crushed nerve. Alcohol still being taken in homeopathic quantities only. On the mend, like you, but goodness, the dear old nerves need their time. My wife and I are hopeful for our postponed Bavarian tandem tour in the summer, but not quite there yet.

Wishing you happy and pain-free riding.