Wishful thinking
The ambitions of yesteryear collide with the realities of today
Bon mots
Pardoning turkeys
How could a country whose taste in media is built on extreme heart-warming sentimentality finish up with a nasty arsehole like Trump?
No room in the neurones
He who is tired of learning has been doing it for seventy three years and needs to rest
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Crossing the stream
When I first read “From here to Eternity” I was devastated, wanted to read it again and discover that the ending had magically changed and that Prewitt lived. It just needed me to wish hard enough. A number of other books the same. But sadly, as I knew, really, the book is unchanging, fixed. But
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Best time to plant a tree
In later life you are gardening not for yourself but for your successors.
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Homeward bound
Just as well the house I lived in as a child has been demolished, bulldozed, removed from the surface of the planet and replaced by two new houses with no history. Not that I would want it still standing but extensively remodeled and modernised. No point in that other than it representing the spot on
He who
To have the last laugh you need to be the last one left standing. But who has the energy for laughing then?
Values
Once upon a time the products of high technology – pottery, swords, carriages, furniture, bicycles, wireless sets – were valued and treasured; kept in good repair for many years, decades, passed on from generation to generation. Now mobile phones, ipads, tv sets, video games, cars, houses even, end up in landfill after months, days, hours
Fly away
All of that effort to raise a young Magpie – sitting on eggs for weeks, backwards and forwards bringing beakfuls of juicy worms and beetles, ends as a sad bunch of feathers smeared across a busy road. Much like children in a war zone.