Colourful Thinkers

Recent Blogs.

• SPAIN RAVAGED BY WORST STORM A CENTURY September 17, 2019
  I was there at 3pm, aghast as gales, crashing thunder, non-stop lightening and torrential rain - 20% of annual average fell in a few hours - and ripped through the laughingly named Costa del Sol.Storm Gabriel met the remnants of Hurricane Dorian and put the piffling disturbance of Brexit into perspective.
• A BIT MORE CHARM WOULDN'T GO AMISS September 9, 2019
  Maybe I’m in a genial mood because I’m about to go for a week’s rest, relaxation and reflection in Spain. When I discovered there’s going to be seven days of wall-to-wall sun there I felt even more genial. It’s the opportunity to read a book a day and fill my mind with new thoughts, plots […]
• THE MILLENIAL MYTH DEFUSED September 2, 2019
  When Simon Sineck talked about the millennials in 2017 he derided their sense of entitlement and said what they really wanted at work were “beanbags and free food”. It was very funny. The trouble is Simon casually set the so called “snowflake generation” on a pillar of ridicule.It troubled me at the time. Today I […]
• DEJECTION, HOPE, TENTERHOOKS, DISBELIEF, ELATION August 26, 2019
  So we won a cricket match we’d seemed to be doomed to lose.What on earth’s going on?  The recent Test Match was transformed from abject to spectacular and I can’t take such nail-biting drama.Incidentally the real hero is the last man, the redoubtable Jack Leach whose 1 not out was the bravest feat of survival […]
• WE ARE BECOMING MORE DEJECTED August 26, 2019
  It was hard to be cheerful as England’s batting collapsed on Friday after the euphoria of Jofra Archer’s bowling the day before. Somehow Brexit,  Brazilian rain forests and prospective recession were put in perspective. I recalled the Teresa May’s role model was Geoffrey Boycott, the model test cricketer, whose own derisory comments eviscerated England’s pitiful […]