Approaching 74 and every ache, every niggle, every unexplained twitch in the night, presages doom and a twinkle in an undertaker’s eye. Half way through 73 and sour memories bubble up like methane in Lake Baikal, erupt randomly like black mud in Rotorua, old regrets seem once again possible triumphs, old grievances can once again […]
Heaven save me from celebrities who seem quite sane and rational when young but who in old age become religious and move hard right politically and seem to be mulling over joining the Flat Earth Society
Losing their marbles Read More »
Impossible to decide which season would be best to die in: Summer with its heat and blue skies; Autumn with hints of frost and snow; Winter with the warmth of hearth and home: Spring with flowers and promise of flowers. But whichever I choose I would be desolate not to see the following one.
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What is it with Americans putting their hand on their heart at solemn occasions like the funeral of an ex-president? They do know, I suppose, that the heart is just a lump of muscle that circulates blood? I mean, we have known for five hundred years that the heart has nothing to do with emotions,
Hand on head instead? Read More »
When I was young I was too embarrassed to invite friends home, thinking they would see the old furniture, the worn carpet, the odd books, the unappealing prints, the washing on the old clothes line, the unwashed dishes in the coldwater sink. It was only later in life that I came to realise everyone was
How sad it is when we discover that a writer, an artist, an actor, a musician, whom we have admired and enjoyed, believes in an imaginary friend.
Summer is coming like a giant steamroller, belching smoke and flame, sounding like a hurricane wind as it flattens all in its path
I have never had, in a long life of creating ideas, and things, a serious review of any of it. No serious consideration of what was attempted, what were the problems, what was achieved. But then you don’t get that for your life itself I suppose,
