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Getting Old

Literature

An Old Man’s Musings Part Two

15th September 2024 Going Postal 0

I do not look back in anger. Rather I look at what I have (and have not) accomplished. I have four children; the eldest is a successful software engineer though I have not seen him [more…]

Literature

An Old Man’s Musings Part One

25th August 2024 Going Postal 0

‘ But at my back I always hear, Time’s winged Chariot hurrying near …’  Andrew Marvell ‘What is this life if full of care, We have no time to stand and stare……’ William Henry Davies [more…]

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