Recent Blogs.- WE CAN'T BLAME THE TORIES FOR EVERYTHING June 27, 2022I’ve been having terrible, unsettling dreams. One was about some clients in Scotland not paying their bill so I’m on my way up there to kill them, another was about beating down a warehouse door to recover goods of mine being held by a company in administration and saying “it’s just an abrupt form of […]
- FIGHTING THE FITNESS URGE June 20, 2022I’ve spent most of my life convinced that my lifestyle meant I was doomed and destined for a premature handing in of my dinner pail. In 2018 a study determined that any alcoholic drink at all was very, very bad for you. Occasionally, so convinced was I of this, I had a “dry” month and […]
- HOW DO I HATE THEE? LET ME COUNT THE WAYS June 13, 2022This is a misquotation of one of the greatest love poems ever by Elizabeth Barrett Browning:-“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”I’ve used it because the level of hatred that’s invaded our lives is peculiarly visceral not just here but in America too. There seems no middle position to be taken between […]
- WHERE ON EARTH ARE WE GOING? June 6, 2022I’m increasingly confused. We’ve a government with a big majority who said Brexit would benefit us. To be fair we expected neither a pandemic or a war in Europe but I’m sitting here today wondering if anyone has (or had) a clue as to how to manage our affairs. I also wonder if they really […]
- HOW MUCH WORSE CAN IT GET? May 30, 2022Relax. This is just the beginning; but it’ll be all right in the end.“Well, how do you feel? How’s your mental health?”I worry that by asking that question too often, we can create morbid-introspectives. An easy thing to be, as with Party-gate, Putin-gate, Trump-gate and Recession-gate we’re being bombarded with torrents of ghastly news.But it’s […]
- WE CAN'T BLAME THE TORIES FOR EVERYTHING June 27, 2022