As I slowly return to the land of the blogger after very little activity for the last 2 and a half years I thought I should lay down some blog markers for my subscribers and casual visitors. Your host is Australian by birth and British by ancestry. I became an Atheist at a young age, […]
Has anyone in real life (not the movies) ever said, in response to some pereceived danger, \”oh well, gotta die some time\”? Of course not, yet somehow script writers have people speaking this sentence all the time.
Hey I am exactly just 100 days short of 29,220 days on this planet. And what days they have been!
Day by day by day. Read More »
As the days dwindle down I find it increasingly hard to read books. Hell, I can barely manage to write them.
Reaching September Read More »
Turning 79 is not nothing but it has that last of the summer wine vibe (or perhaps more accurately dregs of the summer wine). Turning 80 on the other hand will be entering an unknown land that no one escapes alive. \”Not cheery\”? Not cheery.
All over the world the Right are creating political environments in which very stupid people can be elected by even more stupid people
Everyone should read Animal Farm and 1984 once. But it is impossible to read either of them a second time.
It is curious, I think, that two of my dearest friends in life [both now dead] loved fishing, a viscious pastime I abhor
One, two, three, four, five… Read More »
Once upon a time, in life long ago, the night was a time to sleep and knit up the ravell\’d sleave of care. Now, in this life, my bedroom is the scene of unravelling and savage dreaming and longing for the dawn.
I have a whim, a slight fancy, if you prefer, to somehow have assembled in a giant hall, or stadium, everyone I met along the way to where I am now. But I do not mean everyone. There are many I never want to see again. Some, indeed, who might even cause me to break
