In 2020 I read just 8 books. In 2021 I apparently read 31 books. As you can surmise from this blog post’s featured image, there are some duplicates for some reason and I can’t work out why. The real number of books I completed in 2021 was actually 27. So I smashed my goal by • Read More »
And Bilbo was like “Good morning!” and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf was like “What do you mean?”
Tags: like, linguistics, you know
With the threat of our beloved and run-down pub, the Tumbledown Dick, being turned into a McDonald’s restaurant somebody pointed me in the direction of a very interesting book – The McDonaldization of Society. The book, first published in 1993, is written by sociologist George Ritzer and looks at the increasing rationalisation of the world • Read More »
Tags: Amazon, Amazon alternative, books, George Ritzer, McDonald's, McDonaldization
In my quest to find alternatives to Amazon, my latest discovery has been an interesting one. A couple of weekends ago I made a brief trip to Avebury in Wiltshire, a picturesque little English village and home to an impressive neolithic henge monument. Once I was home that same Sunday evening I had a sudden • Read More »
Tags: alternatives to Amazon, Amazon, Amazon alternative, Beetroot Books, Freeconomics, synchronicity
As previously posted, I was recently looking for an alternative to Amazon. The thought process came about after I was accused, quite reasonably, of putting money into Amazon’s pockets when there were serious questions to be asked about their ethics and morality. The main points of contention are that: 1) Amazon have been accused of • Read More »
Tags: Amazon, Amazon alternative, books, bookshops, business, hive, hive network, localism
A recent conversation on one of the comments sections of the Friends of the Tumble Down Dick website got me thinking: “Are there any alternatives to Amazon?” For many years now I’ve been an Amazon affiliate and earned a few pennies here and there from my web and blog posts. In all honesty, I don’t • Read More »
Tags: alternatives to Amazon, Amazon, Herman Hesse, localism, Siddhartha
Cash Mobbing Lifts Local Business” was first written by Paul Mackenzie Ross for the is4profit small business blog The flash mob is a public gathering where people use social media or other communications to organise and congregate on a public place and perform some usually pointless act and then disperse again. Now, after the flash • Read More »
Tags: business blog, cash mobbing, flash mobbing, is4profit, Ken Banks, localism, Means of Exchange, portfolio