Orwellian
Everyone should read Animal Farm and 1984 once. But it is impossible to read either of them a second time.
One, two, three, four, five…
It is curious, I think, that two of my dearest friends in life [both now dead] loved fishing, a viscious pastime I abhor
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Book of the year
Well, my book of my year… Now available from the publisher: https://www.ginninderrapress.com.au/store.php?catalog/all/-/date/1 It is also available from Amazon outside Australia:
Early warning
Advance notice of my new book here – a long time (23 years) coming, but I have had a few roadblocks to overcome – https://www.ginninderrapress.com.au/store.php?product/page/3057/David+Horton+%2F+Hammering+on+the+mind%27s+door Publication date set for 14 October. I don\’t know whether you can advance order. Perhaps you could let me know in comments here.
Hey, Dad
Was my beloved grandfather among this trench full of WW1 Durham Light Infantry? And how many of these poor soldiers survived the war, like he did?
By the waters of babbling…
Don\’t think my brook will be babbling, or even whispering, when the next fearful Summer is here.
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Never the twain
There is now a real world occupied by those of us who believe in science, logic, facts, analysis, rational thought, democracy, humanism; and there is now a parallel world occupied by right wing ideologues, religious fundamentalists, climate change deniers, anti-vaxxers, libertarians, neofascists, incels, anti-abortionists, home schoolers, racists, nuclear power boosters, UFO believers, conspiracy theorists, misogynists,
Fairy circle
Patch of old Acacia decurrens (?) which has died off leaving a circle of regrowth all around it.