Sixty years on.
Just finished Mickey Spillane’s book “The Snake” (published 1964). Staggering attitudes towards how men and women interacted: lantern-jawed, monosyllabic Mike Hammer resisting sex before marriage
31/01/2024
Blog & Articles of Interest
New Year Greetings!
Season’s kisses. Howard arrived with this huge bunch of mistletoe just before Christmas. It’s hanging in the kitchen ready for kissing duties and he took
31/01/2024
Christmas Cheer and Congratulations.
Please enjoy the latest triumph: after more than three months, I have at last managed to climb the stairs to the bedroom, study etc! Now
13/12/2023
Journey to recovery
Life has been very fuzzy over the last few weeks: on top of the spinal fracture (manageable), still living in hospital bed in conservatory, there’s
06/12/2023
Ex-PM “bamboozled” by science?
A scientific adviser commented on the Covid enquiry and the politician “bamboozled” by science. She scoffed about those of us who don’t know “mortality” from
22/11/2023
What makes a good leader?
All the political debates about new Governments next year in America and here plus all the words being spouted at the Covid Enquiry, I’ve been
08/11/2023
How they shot themselves in the foot.
Nearly ¾ million of us forced Government to stop rail companies getting rid of ticket offices. Most of us objected because the change would make
01/11/2023
Pride cometh before the Fall!
I was trumpet-blowing in the last post and have had my come-uppance. Fell down the last few stairs yesterday and landed in an ungainly heap
20/09/2023
Prize-winning.
Feeling a bit smug. Not because a blind person won first prize for the honey cake class at our local beekeepers’ show but because the
18/09/2023