20th Century
Four Poems
I have visited the 1st World War battlefields several times. I have attended the ceremony at the Menin Gate in Ypres honouring those lost with no known grave and I have sat weeping in the [more…]
Gillygangle
Health
Medical Musings
This is a warts an’ all musing upon the particular medical state I find myself in as I approach my 86th Birthday. As a soi-disant shortarse (I have lost c. 3 inches in height over [more…]
Literature
Words Part – The Last
Words are the currency of communication; endlessly combined they express every emotions, pass on knowledge, contribute to an ordered society and fulfil many, many more functions. The Bee Gees had it right: ‘Words, words are [more…]
Literature
An Old Man’s Musings Part The Last
Nice comments by Brian and DJM regarding the standard of articles and serials published. They serve to amuse, entertain and educate us. Top notch indeed and I too am certain no other blog can match [more…]
Literature
Words Part Thirteen
Spring is sprung. The grass is gris, I wonder where the birdies is, The bird is on the wing, but that’s absurd. The wing is on the bird! Anon Beginning to feel like the season [more…]
Literature
An Old Man’s Musings Part Fifty-Three
I see that ‘The Adults in the Room’ are ploughing depths of idiocy unparalleled in the history of these Fair Isles. Someone, somehow, please make it stop! The number joining Restore is soaring week by [more…]
Literature
Words Part Twelve
I am not sure where my love of poetry came from – in my grammar school we were introduced to so many great poets; Milton, Wordsworth, Taylor-Colleridge, Kipling, Dylan Thomas and others. I have followed [more…]
Literature
An Old Man’s Musings Part Fifty-Two
Browsing through my mobile today I came across several notifications – some from Google, the rest from local mosques. Information about dates and timings of Ramadan=a=ding dong – I was actually shocked. WTF??? A Christian [more…]
Literature
Words Part Eleven
These are some of my favourite short poems by William Butler Yeats The Lake Isle of Innisfree I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay [more…]