Random Musings of a Disorderly Mind

Have you ever woken up wondering what the day will bring? If this includes fishing around inside someone’s intestines, being sent photos of bodily fluids, or even pretending to be dead, then you may just happen to be a surgeon. If it includes retrieving arrows, knives, and other foreign bodies from various anatomical locations, then you may be a trauma surgeon. If it also includes rescuing patients from spitting monks and overdosing pharmacists, then you probably work as a doctor in Southeast Asia.

From the relative safety of a 1970s UK medical school to the extremes of modern-day Cambodia, enter the world of funny, sad, baffling, and, at times, unbelievable encounters with patients, teachers, and colleagues over five decades.

The Mystery Tree house, Book 1

In the heart of an uncharted ocean, far from any shore, stands a towering tree unlike any other, a tree that holds life, death, and secrets deep within its ancient bark. This is The Mystery Tree House, a refuge and a curse for the shipwrecked souls who find themselves marooned on its immense roots.When a fierce storm leaves a diverse band of survivors stranded on this colossal tree, they soon discover its life-sustaining waters and mystical properties. Led by Warrior Is Born, a West African sailor turned reluctant leader, they carve out a new society within the tree’s hollowed trunk. But beneath the paradise they build, shadows lurk, dark forces that threaten to unravel their fragile existence. As they struggle to survive and understand the tree’s mysterious power, the tree house reveals its true nature, a place where treachery festers as deeply as the roots that anchor it to the sea floor.As Warrior Is Born ascends to kingship, he must navigate a web of power struggles, ancient prophecies, and supernatural forces. The stakes are nothing less than the survival of his people and the very soul of the tree itself. The Mystery Tree house is a gripping tale of leadership, sacrifice, and the eternal battle between human ambition and the natural world’s inscrutable power. Discover a world where myth and reality intertwine, and every decision could be their last.

Selfsexpression 1: Sensuality & Attraction

How do we become the lover we want to be? The Selfsexpression Programme presented in this book is a guide to help us achieve this goal.

Based on a theory of love development outlined in her previous book, The Love Path, the author offers a step-by-step approach to expanding our love consciousness. Love consciousness includes physical functioning, sexual expression, and the acquisition of various intelligences we can categorize as intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual. Anyone, of any gender, sexual orientation, and level of experience can adapt the Selfsexpression Programme to meet their unique needs. Couples or groups may wish to undertake the programme together.

The book is divided into 52 love topics – one for every week of the year. Each topic begins with a brief explanation and concludes with three optional tasks. We can choose to: (RR) reflect and record; or (PP) undertake a practical project; or (SS) engage in a scintillating sexercises. The author believes we learn better when we are having fun.

Our Fenland Memories

Step back in time to the 1930s and 40s, where life was vastly different for a family growing up on a Fenland farm in the middle of nowhere. The hard work of farming was a way of life, with no fancy machines to ease the back-breaking labour. Every family member and friend had a role to play, from picking potatoes by baskets to chop hoeing sugar beets. And when harvest time came around, it was dirty work for the adults but great fun for the children - who were happy to help, especially if there was extra pocket money on offer.

In those distinct seasons of yesteryear, winter brought frost that created magical ice crystals on the inside of windows. We learned to take comfort in stone hot water bottles at night, and became experts at dressing and undressing quickly in unheated bedrooms. But would we be able to cope today without electricity or indoor plumbing? Perhaps, but we’d rather not find out.

These personal memories of social history are a treasured part of our heritage, a snapshot of life in a bygone era that needs to be preserved with pride for future generations. In this fast-moving, ever-changing world, it’s important that we don’t forget our Fenland roots. Join us on a journey through time as we reminisce about the joys and challenges of life on a rural farm in a simpler, more humble era.

Performance Calculation Methods for High Speed Sailing Craft

This book takes a fresh look at the fundamental physics of sailing, emphasising factors that are unique to high-speed boats, and building logically from the fluid force mechanisms through the hydro and aero components to the numerous boat configurations that now exist.Suitable performance calculations are clearly explained for all the dominant types: Windsurfers, kite surfers, kite foilers, trimaran catamaran, planing monohulls, moths, etc. along with fascinating observations and speculation of the potential for further increase in speed.In addition, the book includes exclusive calculations of the performance in waves for some popular boat types. A selection of the calculations can be downloaded with an access code that comes free with the book.This book should be on any technically minded sailing person’s book shelf!

Errors of Grammar

This definitive guide tackles some of the most persistent and egregious errors in English grammar that continue to plague both writers and speakers. Drawing on nearly two decades of meticulous observation, author Roger Challoner Green has compiled the mistakes he sees made most frequently, despite many having already worked their way into accepted modern usage.

Unlike English grammar guides that focus on teaching rules, this book concentrates specifically on calling out misuse. The author doesn’t argue scholarly grammar but instead appeals to longstanding conventions and preservation of the highest literary standards. Areas of particular concern covered include subject-verb agreement, adjective-noun agreement, dangling participles, and illogical comparisons among them.

While acknowledging that language evolves, the author maintains firm views on upholding established guidelines. This guide book will resonate with readers frustrated by the increasing abandonment of good grammar and looking to bolster their own skills. Both informative and droll, Common English Grammar Mistakes serves as an essential tool for writers, editors, and language mavens alike.

Genevieve – Book II

The saga continues with Genevieve, now a ward of her old foe Fulgar. An unusual alliance forms, allowing her to use his resources to travel the world, crossing war zones, sub-Saharan deserts, and snowy mountain peaks in search of answers. After a decade of being considered missing and presumed dead, she returns to Clarence City a hero. Though thought to be healed of its organized crime problem after the Moretti Massacre, Clarence City begins to experience a resurgence of criminal activity when a man with a vendetta arrives from Sicily.Adding to her woes is a dark entity with terrifying, cataclysmic ambitions of scorched earth and “Finis Dierum” – the end of days.

Temper Tantrums

Aren’t you just loving ‘terrible twos?’ This book of six short stories will surely help soothe the phase! A hilarious read with your adorable little ones. ‘Noisy Nigel’ and ‘Tearful Tina’ are two of the six characters who depict the egotistical nature of toddlers. Witty yet educational, Temper Tantrums is a book about real life situations. Aiming to show the cause and effect of one’s actions. There is no doubt both children and parents will relate to the strong ‘no addiction’ theme. You are more than welcome to refer to the quirky, lovable characters when in need!

A Day Is a Thousand Years

“But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”
– 2 Peter 3:8, NKJV.

There are similarities between the days of creation, the Exodus, the days of Holy Week, and the earth’s millennia as determined through genealogy as calculated by the likes of Ussher. By looking at the patterns across creation, the Exodus, the days of Holy Week, and the millennia, we can see Peter was looking at a literal interpretation in 2 Peter 3:8.

This will take us from day one of creation to the 1,000-year reign and the new creation post Christ’s return as prophesied through creation week, the Exodus, Holy Week, and Revelation.

Whether you believe in a young earth or not, you cannot deny the seven millennia shown by the Biblical genealogy.

Campaign for Open Science with Spirituality without a Big Bang

This groundbreaking book invites world leaders to follow science, yet urges an open dialogue in the pursuit of truth, steering clear of Big Pharma’s marketing propaganda. John delves into how the universe perpetually reinvents itself in a Steady State, eschewing the traditional big bang theory, through his father’s concept of ‘symmetrical impermanence’ (SI). He posits that Jupiter was once a binary twin to the sun, which, after collapsing in a supernova, gave birth to the planets.John tackles Chalmers’ ‘hard’ problem of consciousness using the wave-particle interchangeability (WPI) principle found in electromagnetic fields—the same principle that powers cell phones. He theorizes that the music of life emanates from primary energy as electromagnetic waves, which coalesce into a ‘One Mind’ comprising a nested hierarchy of sub-minds. According to his theory, our brains transform these waves into protons, constructing our bodies with conscious awareness and enabling us to experience and adapt to hostile environments.He advocates for a Campaign for Open Science and Medicine (COSAM) to foster a shift towards holistic thinking, aiming to safeguard humanity’s future.

The Food for Thought Journal

With so much information out there, getting in shape has become a minefield of confusing and expensive plans and products both good and bad alike.

Thousands of diets and workouts that leave you miserable, hungry, maybe even malnourished, and not a clue where to turn next once the current trend has failed you.

But would you believe me if I said it’s all extremely simple when you have the right information?

This journal has been expertly designed to help you figure out exactly what you want when it comes to your health, fitness, and lifestyle.

It gives you guidelines that help you improve your nutrition and lifestyle without demanding you starve yourself or never eat your favourite foods again.

Best of all it does it in a way that’s enjoyable, fun, and decided by YOU.

To make change easy, you first need to change your mindset, and that is what this journal is all about. It finally gives you that peace of mind you’ve been looking for when it comes to your diet and takes away the stress that you feel every time you look in the mirror.

An Heirless Family

Fatima’s eyes were heavy with memories of her son. She would often open the family book for him, filled with values of asceticism and contentment with fate. These values were ingrained in her soul, nurtured by a cloud of love and contentment that enveloped both place and soul. With every cry of life and amidst the grains of mud, a green branch grew, bringing life anew.

Fatima shares with her son Majed, named after her father, the story of their family and the father who was once absent. Believed dead after years of no return, her father was discovered to be alive, having lost his memory after a fall from his camel. Rescued by a man who took him in, he married the man’s sister, and they had a son named Sa’eed, who became a doctor.

In a twist of fate, this doctor oversees Fatima’s IVF process, leading to the birth of a son who will grapple with the existential question of his identity and parentage.