Martin Downes FRSA 🏴
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TEDx speaker | Creator: Start Something Good® | Learning & Innovation Lead Consultant @Cwmpas_Coop | Fellow @theRSAorg Trauma survivor | C S Lewis & Tolkien
South Wales, UK 🏴
Joined December 2011
Some lessons on creativity and collaboration from my @TEDx @TEDxNantymoel talk: "Taking Tolkien to Work" (with copious references to C S Lewis). @Cwmpas_Coop @TolkienWonder @TeawithTolkien @CSLewisInst @CSLewis_Society @LewisGroupNI @malcolmguite
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@AmericanGwyn That fits with the long composition of LOTR. A month after The Hobbit was published Tolkien said that he couldn't think of anything more to say about hobbits. From the Dec he drafted three chapters. By the following June there was no more progress. He then rewrote the first three
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I think you mean "bear" not "bare" here, as in "too much to tolerate or endure." These are dark times for grammar.
The thought of an Englishman coaching Wales would normally have been too much to bare for many a fan - but these are dark times for Welsh rugby. #BBCSport #BBCScrumV
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Good luck to Matt Sherratt. We will always be grateful to Warren Gatland for: The 2nd half comeback against England in 2008 that kick started the GS. The magic of the RWC 2011. The RWC raid on Twickenham in 2015. The 2019 GS domination of England and Ireland in Cardiff.
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"Broadsword calling Danny Boy"
First trailer for MR. BURTON looks very promising! "In the Welsh town of Port Talbot, 1942, Richard Burton (then Jenkins) lives as a wayward schoolboy... However, a new opportunity arises when Richard’s natural talent catches the attention of his teacher, Philip Burton." #wales
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RT @FaberBooks: We are delighted to announce The Poems of Seamus Heaney. This is the long-awaited, definitive edition of Seamus Heaney’s po…
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1992. English A Level at Y Pant taught by Mr Thomas. Heaney's poems first read in that year have stayed with me ever since.
Today, with @faberbooks, we are proud to announce The Poems of Seamus Heaney, edited by Bernard O'Donoghue & Rosie Lavan with Matthew Hollis. This landmark volume will celebrate SH's life in poetry, including his 12 original collections, and uncollected poems. Out 9th October
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Greatest player of the 6N. A subjective discussion, but maybe, just maybe, it is someone not on the list. And that someone is Shane Williams @BBCScrumV @BBCSport
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RT @garethkthomas: It's exhausting to talk with people who don't understand trauma. I'm sharing this so that if you do understand, you kno…
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@PeterScottGray "The modern versions, done in the name of comprehension, add up to an assault on readability. Eliot said that the Revised Standard Version was the work of men who did not realize they were atheists" Clive James (of all people).
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@BretVDB "Eliot said that the Revised Standard Version was the work of men who did not realize they were atheists" Clive James
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Ran my 66th hackathon today. Rembrandt and Rublev at the venue.
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150k views for this tweet. And this is the naked version.
This was my strangest experience opening packaging for a book order and seeing Rowan Williams staring at me.
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Eggs in Purgatory. A simple dish worthy of Dante. Perfect for a Saturday afternoon @Nigella_Lawson
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