Recent Blogs.- AT LAST... A GOOD READ May 10, 2021Since Lockdown One I’ve been struggling to read properly. Properly meaning reading a book from beginning to end. I’ve flipped through magazines and papers, I’ve dipped into books usually stopping out of frustration. Nothing seemed to grip me or suspend my thinking about the mechanics of reading. I was like the child in the car asking […]
- FEEL BETTER (JUST LIKE THAT) May 3, 2021Three things really irritated me last week.First, the sudden, unwanted e-mails lauding various brands of Bitcoin which apart from being a contributor to global warming is, as far as I can see, the South Sea Bubble of the 21st century. Then, HSBC which is not my bank, constantly texting me to say there’s a problem […]
- BANANA SKINS April 26, 2021I love banana skinsI’m not alone. It’s the minor disasters like throwing your car into Reverse rather than Drive and accelerating not as a prince of the road into a gap in the traffic but reversing noisily into the parked car behind. Doh!A while back on a freezing winter day the banana skin became black […]
- A DAY OF ADVENTURE April 19, 2021This sounds like an Enid Blyton novel, and why not because our island lives have been a bit dull and we need to do something more exciting. Cripes, Timmy the dog’s just done a wee on my foot – in the 1950s that was a canine capital offence.Our adventure’s a trip to London. My heartbeat […]
- WE KNOW NOTHING April 12, 2021We know nothing. If the past fifteen months have taught us nothing else it’s this. But rather than feeling downcast I feel excited. We’ve learnt to fast track medical research in a way that has all the scientists I know aghast with admiration and bafflement. We’ve reinvented stuff. We’ve learnt to live without any of […]
- AT LAST... A GOOD READ May 10, 2021