20th Century
Memories of My Early Childhood
I was born in 1950 and I have very happy memories of my early years. I was lucky I guess. We lived in a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Church End, Finchley with decent sized front, [more…]
Blog
America
“Some things never change like weather patterns, famines and wars, whilst others change rapidly through technology and human greed”
Claudio Grass (CG): Taken together, the moves by Russia and China, especially on the monetary front, with their plans of a gold-backed digital currency, appear to pose a direct challenge to the status quo and [more…]
Business
A View From The Greenhouse (“Brexit” Disastrophe)
In Scotland and Lancashire they had (maybe they still do have) Wakes Week, a time when factories, mines and the like closed for 7 days to allow people to go to Blackpool, get pissed and [more…]
Health
A Hitchhikers Guide To Communication & Persuasion
Some NLP stuff Because of the mention of “Mass Formation Psychosis” linked to hypnosis I wrote a discussion article about it and this led to some Puffins interest in Neuro Linguistic Programming and its role [more…]
Cooking
Jack Daniels BBQ sauce – TGIF style
Anyone who has ever eaten at TGIF may have tasted their BBQ sauces. The smoky one is not good but the Jack Daniels one is to die for. When the wife was training as a [more…]
Business
Economic Idiocy Repeated, Part 2
In Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking-Glass” Humpty Dumpty tells Alice: “When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” Humpty’s subjective approach to verbal meanings is of [more…]
America
“Some things never change like weather patterns, famines and wars, whilst others change rapidly through technology and human greed”
As my friends and clients know very well, but also anyone who has read any of my writings before, I always held that understanding history and geopolitics is one of the most important elements of [more…]
Fiction
The Colombian Sojourn – Chapter 25
Weare Giffard North Devon, Langley Virginia, Bogota and St Juan de Pasto Main Operating Base This is Dedicated to those we leave behind. “Moira Edge. Moira Edge. Mrs Moira Edge,” she said it out loud, [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Thirty One
Monday Good Morning everyone and welcome to another week of my ramblings. I read an article saying that saying the Little Otter has any influence over Bozzie, and hence government policy, was sexist. I must [more…]