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If you were a sailor, you wouldn’t complain if the wind changed direction, you would just reset your sails. So why is there so much fuss when we need to change? Some people really love change; my friend Llew Avis says: ‘Every three years you should change your job, your home or your wife.’ But the reality is that most of us fear it.
I live in Northumberland, right on Hadrian’s Wall. I often marvel at the amazing technology the Romans brought when their empire came north. I also find it staggering that after they left we managed to go so far backwards before taking hundreds of years to catch up. You can imagine the scene after the last Roman left, with the locals saying: ‘Thank goodness they’ve gone, now we can rip up those ...
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