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Gross materialism raises its ugly but seductive head as we move towards Christmas. In Exeter, this is partly symbolised by the Christmas market apparently competing with the Cathedral for custom on Cathedral Green, in this annual clash between Christianity and Consumerism.

Shrewd Santa is the sacred figure of our age stimulating desiring and devouring in malls and missives across the land. As Giles Fraser put it in the Guardian, ‘the great circus of greed is playing itself out all over the country’.

We are once again drawn into a world where material ‘goods’ become the main...

I am writing to thank all of the brilliant fundraisers in Exeter for joining us and taking part in wear it pink on Friday 20 October. Wear it pink, Breast Cancer Now’s flagship fundraiser, takes place every year during October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, to raise money for vital breast cancer research. We were so thrilled that 123 fundraisers across Exeter ditched their everyday colours and pulled on some pink to help Breast Cancer Now achieve its aim that by 2050 nobody will die from breast cancer.

Breast Cancer is a devastating disease. Around 105 women in Exeter are...

My debut novel, Fox Halt Farm is just out on Amazon and here is the link to my blog - this is a post I wrote a couple of months ago.

https://www.celiascosmos.com/ten-things-before-you-write-your-novel/

Below are the words from that post and if you'd like to see it with pictures please follow the link above. My book is available on Amazon (special launch price for Kindle 99p and also on Amazon as a paperback - if you'd like a signed copy direct from me please email celia@frub.org

HERE ARE THE 10 THINGS I WISH I KNEW BEFORE I WROTE MY NOVEL: I am travelling an...

Many English people do not appear to be too media-literate. We do not read beneath the words or images presented to us, nor think about the intentions of those who communicate with us. We take too much at face value and do not appreciate the deeper or more complex subtleties of what we are being told. Many of us prefer to believe a more immediate or literal understanding of what is in front of us. Nowhere is this clearer than in the newspapers we read, the stories we follow on television or our uncritical use of social media. Though we intuitively know that our own life experiences are...