Category: Blog
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I Made It Into The Local Paper
READ ALL ABOUT IT! I was asked if I could be interviewed for The Sentinel, our local newspaper, at the weekend and it was printed in today’s edition. You can have a read below. Just give it a click to open it in a new tab and make it bigger.…
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No Energy Left To Hope
I don’t know what it was or why it was this last weekend but reading news articles about the current ongoings in Gaza really hit me hard. I’ve been quite vocal on the podcast on my feelings about the events over the last twelve months but no matter which side…
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The Podcast Is Dead, Long Live The Podcast.
After 10 years, I’ve decided to distance myself from the username that I’ve had across all of my social media platforms and the name of my podcast, Shingler’s List. I explained in my last blog post where the name originated for me and it’s obvious links to the movie Schindler’s…
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The Origin of My Name, ‘Shingler’s List’
It’s no big secret and/or it’s easy to connect where the name ‘Shingler’s List’ came from. My name is David Shingler. My surname sounds very similar to that of Oskar Schindler (1908-1974), a man who is recognised for having saved the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by hiring…
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My Time At The Open University
The 26th January 2019 was the first day of five years, five months and 28 days of doing something that I should have done twenty-two years ago. It was the first day that work commenced on a feet first decision that I made just a few short months earlier, the…
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Should They Have Just “Let It Be?”
Forty three years after its home media release and fifty four years since its original theatrical release, Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s controversial documentary film ‘Let It Be’ has been given the 4K treatment and is once again available for the world to see via the streaming platform Disney+. When I heard the…
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Reflections on a Week Long Residential
I was hoping to get this written down a little sooner but life happened. To be fair, I was hoping to blog more often this year too but once again, life happened! As some of you will know, I have been studying part time for the last few years. I…
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I Need To Reclaim My Identity
Do you ever get that feeling that you have lost sense of who you are? I kind of feel like that’s where I am at the moment. It’s a feeling that I’m all too familiar with but it hasn’t been around to visit for a while! The other day I…
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New Year, New Me?
I’m not a dates person. If something needs to change, change it now because it doesn’t need to “wait until Monday!” However, I’m all for making plans to better oneself. If them plans happen to be new year resolutions, then so be it. For me though, they’ve always been false…
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I Have Fear of Missing Out
I am part of the problem! I’ve already spoken about the one million variants of The Beatles “Now And Then” saying, and I quote, “Personally, I’ll be picking up a black 7 inch vinyl. Am I happy to pay £17.99 for it? Not really. But I will; and there lies…
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