kari duchin
I'm retired, and enjoy pursuing a variety of art and architectural interests. I am an OU graduate. but first trained as an illustrator. Originally from Norway. I now live in the Cambridgeshire Fens.
Location Tydd St Giles, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
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kari duchin replied to Alan Dowie
That's a quote from Newton. Newton didn't originate it though. The 12th century theologian and author John of Salisbury used a version of the phrase in a treatise on logic called Metalogicon, written in Latin in 1159. Translations of this difficult book are quite variable but the gist of what Salisbury said is:
"We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders...
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Is there a museum or somewhere that shows these ?
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I'm not having any luck. Is my iMac too old, or am I?
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kari duchin replied to patricia harris
I agree, Patricia. I used to do a lot of activities, but lack of mobility makes you switch off your creative/social responses. New start.
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kari duchin replied to Shirley Rudolph
I am sure there are, Shirley. I myself belong to the Friends of the Fitzwilliam, and eagerly went on all their outings.
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@JanetBrinsmead I am fascinated by your Pitmen Painters! Another must to follow up, mobility willing.
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My sympathies, Barry x
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Another good reason to visit Dublin... I notice that Future learn are offering a course on the Book of Kells in October. What a treat!
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kari duchin made a comment
Oriental. Inspirational. I feel nothing 'personal' about it. It could easily have painted by a Chinese artist
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kari duchin replied to pamela grayman
That was mind-blowing video!
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Cod only knows why we get haddocks
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kari duchin made a comment
I find creative thinking is thinking sideways. I am faced with a thought - and I have too many of those - and I either have a new and often irrelevant idea relating to a visual perception (eg looking at cloud formations) or it is a Good Idea, which over the years has helped groups and charities that I have worked for. Thank you to all who have appreciated...
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kari duchin replied to kari duchin
I call this side-way thinking.
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kari duchin replied to Caroline Grace
High five, Caroline !
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kari duchin made a comment
Move the table
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kari duchin made a comment
I spent 4 years at art school in London, with the aim of being a children' book illustrator. Alas, life had other plans for me, but my love of the visual arts has never been lost. I am also a collector of ceramics - Scandinavian MidCentury - and love researching into their backgrounds. I fear that picking up a drawing utensil again will be impossible - I am...
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kari duchin made a comment
As someone on here commented - pigs CAN fly!
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kari duchin made a comment
Walk a few more steps every day
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Janet, I shall have to print that out and put it up in the bathroom so I can see it daily when I get up from my painful slumbers. How inspirational - thank you!
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@PatM You speak for me here - I am not a group person. This is why FL now, and the OU have been good for me. I suffer from nerve disorders caused by Diabetes, which has already affected my eye sight and feet. I have very little feeling left in my feet. And in the last few years I have developed degenerative arthritis in my spine and so any form of movement...
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@GailForbes Try it in small doses. I share your depression, pain and exhaustion. through various conditions. I find going out and mixing in ordinary situations stressful. Today I struggled all day to get to the hairdresser. My partner said 'wear your new red top. You look great in it'. So I did, and felt good. I made a couple of wisecracks, and the...
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kari duchin replied to pamela gale
@pamelagale Yes, absolutely "choice". While I still can, deciding what I want to do, whether it is doing more courses, reading, or appreciating the world and human achievements.
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kari duchin replied to Susan Pearson
@SusanPearson Hear hear!
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kari duchin made a comment
Every decade I thought 'I was happy then' I was reminded by a health not-so-good problem. I cannot seem to balance happiness with health conditions. Perhaps pain does't leave long-term memories?
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kari duchin replied to Barry Lowden
Not very useful, except to point out to me that my schooldays were my most distressing - possibly because I was in the same class as my younger/brighter/prettier sister all through secondary school. And perhaps that was the start of my following constant low periods.
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kari duchin made a comment
I have learnt a new word - Orthopraxy. It occurs to me that this also applies to most religious activity by uneducated people over the following centuries. You don't have to 'believe' it, you just do it!
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@EvelynROSS We are still talking about the Republic of Rome, don't forget :)
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kari duchin made a comment
Increasing imbalance between the three groups of power, and increasingly leading to the fixation on a figurehead for the accumulation of the Roman-ruled countries around Europe etc. The example of the city state no longer applied.
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kari duchin made a comment
Hello. I am Kari, originally from Norway but now living in Cambridgeshire, UK. My passion is for art and architecture, but I love to explore the history of buildings around the structures I admire.
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@BarryLowden Looking after your teeth certainly seems to be.
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How true :)
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@BarryLowden Thank you
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I also use my wisecracking for acceptance. I love people laughing with me. But it doesn't compensate for the anxieties and worries I have underneath, and I am still on antidepressives. I am hopeful this course will help.
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kari duchin replied to Lucia Pichler
And don't forget those perfect teeth!
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kari duchin replied to Daphne Hazeldine
Interesting point! I put 'sex' in the old category. My octogenarian partner and I have only been together a few years - romance if perhaps not torrid :) ;) :)
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kari duchin made a comment
Sitting here in front of the screen, with my brain in gear, I do not notice being 'old' (I'm 74). I have done many courses and an OU degree during my retired years, and I know my brain iis more than willing. But if I get up to move around, I have great pain getting around with this worn-out arthritic hulk that is also me. Perhaps getting old is a balance...
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@SarahMaidlow I hope so, for your sake.
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kari duchin replied to John Cartwright
Have you been to the agricultural industry that is Lincolnshire? That is not something to be grateful for.
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kari duchin replied to Philip West
@JacBecker That's the answer! The Hobbits will survive!
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kari duchin replied to Kathy Penney
I wonder if we should just rely on the belief that, one day, scientists will come up with a totally fail-proof plastic recycling? I question whether this will be considered economically viable?. An idea I heard some months ago was to grind up the plastic for use as road surfaces -supposing those roads needed replacing - what then? I have no answers, but a...
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@MaureenBowler Time for me to go on a diet..
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I , too, am encouraged by the positive attitudes of younger people, and their willingness to adopt an alternative way of living.
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kari duchin made a comment
I am sorry, but I do not like this article, or the comments in the posts that follow it. What has her weight/shape/gluttony do with food preparations in Royal palaces? The size of HVIII and GIV have been mentioned, but not in a way that measured busts and waists.
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Yes, I can see how it develops during the period to how we expect it to be (during my lifetime anyway.)
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kari duchin replied to Vicky Mackie
@ElaineS I'll endorse that.
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kari duchin replied to Satch Stone
A superb metaphor
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kari duchin replied to Pfano PP
I love what you say here.
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kari duchin replied to Geoffrey Locks
I know exactly what you mean!
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kari duchin made a comment
Fascinating article And Linda Colley's book is briiliant.
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kari duchin replied to Doug Rawlings
@BarbaraPickering I am staggered by the concept of the time periods as well
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kari duchin replied to Diana Pearce-Dyke
Interesting point
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kari duchin replied to Lee Scott
@LeeScott That made me drop my head in shame at the unappealing creature called man. And,yes, Lee: When will WE ever learn?
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kari duchin replied to Diana Pearce-Dyke
He had to get a lot of kids round it,so clearly a few table extensions needed underneath
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kari duchin replied to Dominic Windram
Unduly cynical, I feel, Dominic Windram
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kari duchin made a comment
Can't wait
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kari duchin replied to Lee Scott
What a fascinating and amazing discussion. (and sorry for the use of those adjectives). It will take some getting used to for this non-scientist: In the beginning was the microbe.
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kari duchin made a comment
I think I may be in a minority here, as I really don't have a sweet tooth at all, and chocolate makes me feel nauseous. Which is good news for me, as I am a Diabetic.
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kari duchin replied to Stuart Boyd
What a wonderful idea the moulinette is!
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@MeganGooch I believe 'Ralegh' is the result of standardisation of library cataloguing rules.
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kari duchin replied to Campbell Milton
I think the term"Baroque" for English architecture of the period is misleading when compared to that on the European mainland, and "Classical" could just as easily be used. The English tend to use the term mainly to point out that it wasn't 'Gothic". I must admit I am interested in changing concepts of kitchen designing, and would love to know more.
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kari duchin replied to Campbell Milton
Isn't that just great? My grandchildren used to sing it to me!
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kari duchin replied to Stuart Boyd
Apropos of nothing, I looked up what OC might have eaten, and Google gave me :- oliver cromwell gin and diet tonic
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kari duchin replied to Stuart Boyd
@FrancesOwen Probably not very kingly at all! He was a strict Puritan, and had no truck with excesses of any kind.
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kari duchin replied to Stuart Boyd
I think you present your case well!
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kari duchin replied to Stuart Boyd
I'll drink to that!
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I have always been told it was RALEGH. 'Raleigh' is only for the bikes!
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kari duchin replied to Campbell Milton
It should not really have the name 'Bloody Tower'. I am sort of disappointed.
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kari duchin replied to Stuart Boyd
@StuartBoyd Might be why Northern European countries add caraway seed to sauerkraut
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kari duchin replied to David Turner
Sugar beet is also used in feeding cattle and horses
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kari duchin made a comment
Hot water, honey and lemon, and a large slug of whisky is perfect for a cold.
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What an interesting combination! btw, I spent the last 18 years of my working life in academic libraries at Cambridge University. Quite a few ibids and loc cits there!
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@CampbellMilton Academia?
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I don't think they were ever in current parlance - they are part of academic scholarship tools, and used by scholars.
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kari duchin replied to Campbell Milton
I see you have already received this information ....
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kari duchin replied to Campbell Milton
@CampbellMilton That was Charles Laughton, throwing chicken legs over his shoulder in early Hollywood style! I must get the image out of my mind (however reluctantly)
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kari duchin replied to Philippa Alliss
It sounds as though they were well looked after!
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kari duchin replied to Heather Markson
Thank you, Heather! Never mind Henry VIII - how about the French President?
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kari duchin made a comment
I am absolutely astounded that they managed to lay pipes under the Thames! I mean, the Thames is pretty wide. How? What sort of technology would have been available?
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kari duchin made a comment
The change in people's eating habits over time has always interested me. I love the representations in art of historical meals - and thinking of Henry VIII, who can forget the film with Charles Laughton at the table? I look forward to where the course will take us.
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kari duchin made a comment
In excess.
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kari duchin replied to Audrey Miller
@LiamTaylor I feel inadequately prepared to write the assignment. Sorry.
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kari duchin replied to Paul Morran
@stuartwire Wonderful post. I understand your logic, and agree.
'There is a danger of attempting to preserve in aspic a countryside that is currently almost as artificial as a car park' -
kari duchin replied to Gordon Dyne
Love your last remark.
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kari duchin replied to Helen Smith
@GordonDyne Thank you, I begin to understand better.
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kari duchin replied to Kate B
I have never seen a barn owl until I moved here! I am also retired, Kate Bailey, but enjoying life and learning new things.
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kari duchin made a comment
I moved to the Fens of Cambridgeshire a few years ago, and my life has completely changed. I am Norwegian, and still have cabin in the Norwegian mountains, and I feel at peace with myself there. The Fenland is the flattest place I know, but we have the finest sunrises and sunsets, and amazing wildlife. Originally wetlands, both Romans and later the Dutch...
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kari duchin made a comment
Brilliant course, well worthwhile.
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He didn't look overwhelmed
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kari duchin replied to Tia MacLaren
Are you calling William Shakespeare a 'Tudor spin doctor? :D
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kari duchin replied to Pamela Netzow
I like the analogy
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kari duchin replied to Olga Kozhevnikova
I don't think hygiene came into it. In Norway, eg, men always carried their own knives, for lots of purposes, including their meals. I believe, until quite recently, the same was true in rural France.
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kari duchin replied to Roger Thomas
@LynO Interesting the mention of 'stockfish' (Tørrfisk) These are dried cod from Northern Norway, which were exported to the rest of Europe from the 14C. Being dried, they could last a long time. They were very popular in fish stews.
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kari duchin replied to Tia MacLaren
safer than water..
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kari duchin replied to Marie MacLeod
These reactions puzzle me. I thought we were learning about the history of the middle ages - we were not here to judge their morals!
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kari duchin replied to Tia MacLaren
I think you would!
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kari duchin replied to Peter Wallace
There was always a Guest house for travellers of all sorts.
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kari duchin replied to Peter Wallace
Matter of taste. I have plucked quite a few pheasants in my time, and find that the birds hung for a few days are much more palatable than the ripe ones. But I am no connoisseur .
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kari duchin replied to jim kerr
Don't you think, rather to impress their peers?
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Olga, I think you are using words and concepts there that no medieval peasant would understand. I think it is impossible to judge different historical eras by 21st century values.
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kari duchin replied to MAC M
Remember the nursery song, with Four-and-twenty blackbirds baked in a pie
