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Peter E. Upton

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Spirituality, Biography, Travel

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Illusions by Richard Bach and A Search in Secret India by Dr. Paul Bru ...more

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My book 'Candles on the Ganges' really tells everything of interest about me except that I love being close to nature through gardening and long country walks, old warm pubs with log fires and close friends. For the last ten years I have been teaching myself flamenco and blues guitar both of which I play to a very poor standard. When it is too wet to walk I love making walking sticks and the way each stick tells me what sort of walking stick it wants to be. But most of all I love playing with my two lovely Grandchildren.

I would just like to thank all of the people who helped to publicize my recent ebook giveaway. As a result of your efforts 108 people took the book in two days. Hopefully these people will like the book enough to tell their ...more

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Peter E. Upton I am currently working on repairing a fireplace, maintaining the garden and getting ready for a walking holiday in the Brecon Beacons! There is not an…moreI am currently working on repairing a fireplace, maintaining the garden and getting ready for a walking holiday in the Brecon Beacons! There is not another book on the horizon! The last one took me 20 years to complete to my satisfaction!
Update to 2022 if you have read my book you will see somewhere around page 100 that while in the desert I suddenly realized that by just adding water the place and the people's lives in it could be transformed. In the past few years I have turned this realization into my own plan to help solve global warming while regenerating the world, solving the problems of drought, ending starvation and giving clean drinking water to the millions without.
The plan, like me, is simple, build massive solar powered desalination plants along the coast of Africa, Asia and wherever else there is a need . Then use solar driven pipe lines to carry it where ever it is needed, store it in medium sized earthquake proof 'tanks'. Use it to irrigate drought ridden arable land and to regenerate degraded forests and with different minerals added, as fresh clean drinking water.
The cost about 1 billion American dollars for the massive Claude Budd desalination plant in California plus maintenance. So not cheap for the many plants that are needed but the people of these areas will be able to once again feed themselves without Foreign Aid putting them back on the road to EQUITY while their children won't be part of the 3.1 million children who die each year of the results of malnutrition and dirty drinking water.
The water poured onto the land and into the people will then go on a cycle of evaporation into forming clouds which will bounce the sun's rays back out of the atmosphere lowering global warming before raining on new areas starting the irrigation cycle again.
The high salinity waste water from the desalination process could be carried by tankers to the areas where it is needed for its density to keep the world's major ocean currents running till global warming is solved. The fertilizers like nitrogen could also be taken out of the waste water and sold instead of factory produced fertilizers.
If I have missed anything out it is because the above is part of a 14 page document and that I have almost given up trying to interest the Government or any Climate Change organization in.
Apart from that I am learning to play the guitar and piano badly, speak French and Spanish even more badly, to replace wind blown fences skilfully, To walk whenever the chance occurs, to run every other day and to fall in love with my daughter's latest 'child' a one year old Cocker Spaniel:).
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sine I have to ask a question, I have rewritten the review of your book, how do you like it now?

Peter E. Upton I thought your new review was thoughtful and beautifully written. It was very kind of you to take the time to revisit it. In truth i had always been m…moreI thought your new review was thoughtful and beautifully written. It was very kind of you to take the time to revisit it. In truth i had always been more than happy with your earlier review. I know your reviews are always of a very high standard which is why I enjoy reading them so much and perhaps in this case you were judging yourself to harshly.
Btw the first day of Spring you mentioned earlier. I went out running in the local hills and had to keep jumping over the remaining snowdrifts!!!!
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I would like to thank everyone who helped me to publicize the amazon kindle ebook giveaway of Candles on The Ganges which I have just run to celebrate my son's birthday.
Having run a previous ebook giveaway I thought I had exhausted public interest so I was delighted to find that exactly 100 people had taken up the offer.
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Thanks for the heads up on the book (I will definitely get a copy) and for the friend request! :) The HP comment usually acts as a repellent so I was surprised that it worked differently this time around :)

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