Graeme Chetcuti

Author: Graeme Chetcuti

  • Taijiquan Training Resumes

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    So I managed to complete a full hour of Qigong, Taijiquan and Wudang Gongfu. I am pleased with this having struggled to return to my martial arts since the pandemic. I hope this continues.

  • Official Jikiden Reiki Qualified

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    So I have been doing various forms of energy work since I was about 16, but as the years went on I wanted to get a proper qualification in Traditional Reiki as it was taught in Japan by Mikao Usui Sensei. I have an array of qualifications, but not a practitioner one. I was already…

  • Human Rights and Immigrants

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    So tell me why a human being deserves rights? What’s the answer in your gut? Is it because we have community and institutions that are set up to protect our rights? We deserve them because we were granted them by the rest of humanity? What if the world wasn’t so kind? Would we still deserve…

  • Italian Vocab Building

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    I included this so I can show how I learn languages. I mostly rely on constant active recall and try to cover each piece of vocabulary 5-10 times using it in context. This allows the grammatical structures to slowly become natural and the vocab to have a good chance to be learned quickly. Uno Sbaglio…

  • Recipe: Creamy Ham and Mushroom Risotto

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    The boyfriends mentioned to me that they quite like rice dishes and being Italian, I almost always cook pasta instead! Hell, if it worked, I would have curry with pasta! I decided to make this dish which would be based on something my mum would cook, creamy mushroom and ham, but she would do it…

  • Recipe: Kahk or Date Biscuits

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    This is a family favourite that has been passed down in my family for generations. It was originally an Ancient Egyptian recipe at least the name is derived from the late Egyptian language Coptic and there are supposedly samples of it in the carvings of the cities of Memphis and Thebes and the tools for…

  • Recipe: Chicken Enchiladas

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    Love this! So easy and I’ve done it loads of times. One of my favourite recipes and I often tell myself it has beans in it which are good for your heart. Ingredients Tools Quantities Most of the above are good for 300-500g of chicken meat. If you are buying one of those 1kg packs…

  • Italian Language Builder – Michel Thomas

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    So I worked through this. It is not as good as the Foundation course because he doesn’t use the students. I don’t remember this being so frustrating. It’s very very fast because you’re not waiting for a student to respond so you really need to be fast with the pause button. I was playing this…

  • Ultimate C# Masterclass for 2024 course

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    There’s always something new to learn. Having completed this instructor’s course which consisted of questions for interviews, I discovered despite using C# for 7 years there was still more to learn. The interview questions were specifically oriented towards your knowledge of the less used areas of C#. I learned about Tuples and Records having only…

  • Event-Driven System – Martin Fowler

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    Interesting lecture by Martin Fowler where he compares slightly different Event driven architectures. He feels that the terms is being over used and could mean one of four more specific types of architecture such as: 1. Event Notification – message added to queue or event hub to say X happened. So maybe a new credit…