They were tearing up the playing field as I arrived with my dogs in the early morning of last week. Lucy hopped down out of the car with her usual care, but I had to keep Archie on a short lead as he hit the ground and immediately spotted the maintainance trucks going about their […]
I know we are barely out of Easter, and I know I mentioned that I would stay off Twitter, but I lied, OK. I tried to stay off it and I didn’t. Would it make it any better if I said it was because I was just looking for cats ringing bells or hopping birds, […]
Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; […]
Sorry, this blog has been a bit death-y recently, what with the recent and sudden death of two people I knew as well as a fatal light aircraft crash infront of a crowd in the capital city on a national public holiday. A couple of decades ago, I came in from Saturday shopping to an […]
So not with a bang, but with a whimper: the British press have been cruelly robbed of nine glorious weeks of stirring when one of the last two finalists in this year’s series of Britain’s Got Tories decided that nominative determinism was a load of old cobblers and despite having a name that suggested she […]
‘The World,’ said someone, (not me), ‘is in a state of chassis.’ And I guess it sort of is. Chaos seems to be ruling left, right and centre at the moment. The Lord of Misrule (whoever that is) seems to be working overtime. Apart from the shock Brexit result, and the virtual collapse of both […]
I am just over 50 years old. When I was 16, my parents took what seemed like an impossible step and emigrated to Australia. I have written about this before on the blog. It did not so much turn my world upside down as fracture it and although I have the benefit of two passports […]
Sometime last week, my morning started with Shakespeare, Today it was pandas. What is it about pandas that makes them so darned cute? They are the rock stars of the ursine world. I mean, people like polar bears, quite a lot – especially when they hear – fun fact – about the way they camouflage […]
Today was Super Tuesday in Amercia although, as if often the case with these things, we had already enjoyed our Tuesday yesterday and in Australia it was just plain old Super Wednesday. I have to admit, that after the excitement of the Oscars Monday and the live web updates (note to TV network executives puzzled […]
I remember the good old days. The family would be sitting around the TV, watching the hilarious antics of a group of inept misfits trying to run a department store, or a bus company, or any other number of business concerns with hilarious consequences when the screen would go black. Before anyone had a chance […]
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