Mike Bond

What is the Law of Attraction?

The Law of Attraction, at its very basic level, means that thought transmutes to physicality. In other words, if you want a new car, you think about it, think of the make, the model, the colour and all the features you would like to go with it, and you'll... Read >

Build Solar Panels and be Independent

Say goodbye to electric bills and hello to renewable energies. Solar power is one of the best and most reliable renewable energy sources available. The problem most novice environmental warriors find is that the cost of professionally installed solar p... Read >

Who Started All This?

Copyright (c) 2009 Mike Bond I wonder whether Intelligent Design isn't some sort of catch-all. Is it supposed to act as a means of gathering those who don't believe in Creation, but who are equally doubtful about Evolution? We may dispose of this, f... Read >

Where Did The Naughty Neanderthals Go?

Copyright (c) 2009 Mike Bond For all those thousands of years, Homo neanderthalensis had hidden in Gibraltar's earth. Then, in 1848, he popped his head up out of the ground, so to speak, to give us an entirely new perspective on another of our ancestor... Read >

So Many Clocks, So Little Time!

Copyright (c) 2009 Mike Bond The pendulum was a most remarkable step. Right up until the 1930's, and with the advent of the quartz movement, the pendulum was the timekeeper for every clock It's thought that Galileo Galilei was the first person to re... Read >

Affiliate yourself to a Big Company

Copyright (c) 2009 Mike Bond Now there's a profound title if ever I saw one. Suppose you don't have an idea in your head. Then what? Let's throw out another gem. Make money with no money. En passant, as our French friends would say, both statement... Read >

The Escapement's a Big Swinger

Copyright (c) 2009 Mike Bond We've chatted about escapements in a previous article, haven't we? The method of releasing the power of the clock, generated either by a mainspring or a weight, in equal time, or isochronously. The clockmaker/repairer w... Read >

Savaric and the Saxon

Copyright (c) 2009 Mike Bond By the Good Lord Jesus, but it's good to be home, thought Savaric, as he leaned on his pommel and looked around him at the winter landscape. The trees of the forest, uncluttered now with leaves, reached towards the clear... Read >

What and Why are Panic Attacks?

Copyright (c) 2009 Mike Bond Ever since I was a boy, I thought that being nervous and anxious was something from which everyone suffered. I never gave a thought to the fact that it was somehow unnatural to have butterflies in your stomach. It never... Read >

Empirical hope for Panic and Anxiety

Copyright (c) 2009 Mike Bond It'd be interesting to know what correlation there is between alcoholism, panic attacks, depression and outright fear. I wrote an article/story not long ago where an alcoholic found that photographs on the wall changed f... Read >

The First Crusade part two

Copyright (c) 2009 Mike Bond It should be remembered that at this time, 1095, when Urban was preaching the Crusade, or more accurately, the Pilgrimage; the name 'Crusade' didn't appear until many years later, the knights were merely men who rode horses... Read >

Savaric of Witney

Copyright (c) 2009 Mike Bond Savaric sat his palfrey and looked up at the great grey edifice of Gloucester Castle. Shields, banners and buntings were draped over the battlements showing that William Rufus, King of all England was in residence for the ... Read >

Cash Flow Musings

Copyright (c) 2009 Mike Bond I find it so fascinating that even 20 years ago, if you wanted to trade in the global marketplace, you'd have to jump on an aircraft and travel all over the world, or at least to the countries where you wished to do busines... Read >

The Battle of Stamford Bridge

Copyright (c) 2009 Mike Bond Written by a huscarl in King Harold's service. The story is true, but Osfrid is fictional. My name is Osfrid. Once I was Thegn of Sturnbyck, a place of 10 hides, in England's Southland. I was a king's Thegn, my master... Read >

Crusade. The Birth of Enmity

Copyright (c) 2009 Mike BondIn the last Tuesday of November, in the year 1095, Pope Urban ll preached a sermon that set off such a fire of zeal among Christians in the West, both rich and poor, that 100,000 men and women of all classes took up the Cross.T... Read >