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Spring

Spring How can we fight when Winter turns to Spring? The Sun like a searchlight should stop War in its tracks Shaming us to drop our weapons. How, when the snow thaws and the birdsong fills the trees can we strike and shoot  and blow up the land and its people? Hate and Fear should melt away and Love for everything should poke up its head in the secret belief that it will grow true and strong once more.

Lviv National Academy of Arts

I gave a brief address in an event on Campus last week as part of a solidarity with Ukrainian colleagues - here's what I said: We’ve been working with LNAA, the Lviv National Academy of Arts and PPV Networks (also in Lviv) for 4 years on a British Council Creative Spark project. The project has been about embedding entrepreneurial skills in the curriculum and latterly about developing their strategic plan. The Ukrainian people are naturally entrepreneurial and we are seeing the strength of their innovation and resilience right now.  The project has included their staff visiting Cardiff Met on two or three occasions, and their new Rector, Vasyl Kosiv attending the Enterprise Educators UK conference in Oxford with us, and staff and student trips from CSAD to Lviv. Our staff tell of the welcome they got in Ukraine – we are treated like family. They have been in continuous contact with us on what’s app and email keeping us informed of how they’re doing and reassuring us that they’...

Lynn

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 I recently wrote a tribute to my father Lynn Moseley, you can find it above, in the tab Lynn

St David and St Olga

  St David and St Olga What good are patron Saints? we ignore them all year round apart from their allotted day like today when children dress in costume and pin daffodils or carry leeks and we give free welsh cakes to international students. But when we really need them when the chips are down when the enemy is down the end of your street..? St David! call your brothers and sisters to arms, show yourselves, rise from the dead Saint Olga of Kyiv, Saint of Defiance and Vengeance needs you now,  She's Calling for a miracle on St David's day