Goodreads

Recommended by friend DB of splendid B&B Radnor House in Hay on Wye. 
Mountains of the Mind by Robert Macfarlane, published 2003, about the history of the human fascination with mountains

Days Without End by Sebastian Barry: two young soldiers find intimacy amid the horrors of the American civil war

Sacred Hunger, historical novel by Barry Unsworth about the slave trade, 1992 Booker Prize (with Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient) 

Essex Libraries closure survey

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Have your say on plans for future library services across Essex
The survey is open till 20 February 2019.

Three Kings pagan myth

Epiphany/Twelfth Night yesterday reminds me how the 3 Magi myth is an overlay on the previous pagan myth about the 3 stars of Orion's Belt pointing towards Sirius (aka Star of Bethlehem) as it rises in the East at this time of year. For more see for example
www.everythingselectric.com/forum/index.php?topic=194.0

NVC - Liv Larsson and Andy Paice

Notes from NVC and Social Change at Rainbow Mill 2017 on Liv Larsson and Andy Paice.

Book Group on Peace News

Our Next Read is the last 2 issues of Peace News:

• Issue 2624 - 2625 | December 2018 - January 2019, especially on #XR
• Issue 2622 - 2623 | October - November 2018, especially on Transgender issues

Does #XR have specific, winnable demands?

Does #XR have specific, winnable demands?
Extinction Rebellion has posted a Declaration at rebellion.earth/declaration and Demands at rebellion.earth/demands.

Mens rea for murder – oblique intention

Good summary at e-lawresources.co.uk/Mens-rea-intention of the problem as to whether a defendant has the necessary 'oblique intention' (or ' or indirect intention) that constitutes mens rea for murder.