Recent Blogs.- DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN WE LAST REPLENISHED? November 29, 2021It goes back a long way, before the industrial revolution which itself led to our 24/7/365 world. To when the harvest was, as the hymn says: “safely gathered in”, the pig was in the last phase of being fattened up before being slaughtered, when the frown of winter deepening and getting under the cosy covers […]
- DON'T GO IN TO THE DRESSING ROOM November 22, 2021Between the ages of 16 and 50, I spent a lot of my weekends playing cricket. Over the past week I’ve been thinking about racism in cricket. I experienced hardly any racism although I was once described as a “honky” by a West Indian fielder. Back in the 1980s the power of the West Indian teams […]
- IGNORANCE IS SOMETIMES BLISS November 15, 2021When you don’t understand something it’s better to admit it than to bullshit. After years of fiddling at the fringes of social media in common with several acquaintances I have decided to become antisocial. No more Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Twitter. I didn’t really understand them anyway except as a medium for sounding off.We shall not […]
- WINTER IS COMING November 8, 2021Officially winter starts on December 21st. Yet first thing on Friday it was really chilly with a frost. I recalled a poem First Frost by Edwin Curran an American poet born at the end of the 19th century:The flowers grow in the garden piedVelvet, imperial, laughing-eyed,While on them all hovers a breath, The whistling frost […]
- WELL, WHAT WOULD YOU DO? November 1, 2021There are many ways of making decisions. There’s the go-on-the-front-foot, “Action Man” approach. There’s reducing everything into a predictable routine. Then there’s the “busk-it” approach and there’s the “rely on experts” way, delegating responsibility for results on the clever who, blamed when things go wrong (as they often do), are dumfounded.Action Man:Last week at 4am […]
- DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN WE LAST REPLENISHED? November 29, 2021