Started thinking about Remembrance Sunday which is fast approaching; such a loss of life over the years, so many lives cut short and what have we truly learned? I have my own memories, particularly as [more…]
Watched again the Morecambe and Wise sketch with Andre Previn. This is a comment on the video: ‘One of the greatest sketches of all time. Humour doesn’t really cross the pond but bravo to Andre [more…]
There is a multitude of fine poems by ‘modern’ poets and it is my aim to introduce as many as is feasible in this series. However, we have to take into consideration the requirements of [more…]
Danny Kruger Starmer is right – this is a fork in the road. One way lies the politics of late-stage liberalism: international human rights, Net Zero and mass migration. The other way lies the politics [more…]
(Some of this was from weeks ago) Christ on a bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just received a letter from the surgery inviting me to have the Flu and Covid jabs! Extracts: ‘COVID-19 and flu are viruses that can [more…]
Grumpy Angler. Molesworth hey?; seventeen years in The Parachute Regiment might gainsay that conclusion and I left early, which was my decision. Mancunius. I did hear something about those Scottish Scamps and the transmogrifications which [more…]
Waiting for MOT (passed) I was browsing my volume of the Dylan Thomas Notebook Poems 1930-1934. I came across this piece which I had never seen before. I admit it shook me; in 1934 he [more…]
My poor old mind biggles at the knee deep stupidity which engulfs us : ‘I named my daughter Crumpets and now she’s being relentlessly bullied.’ Doh. Perhaps she should have called her Pikelets? Thank you [more…]
A headline caught my eye : ‘Tenant renting out London council house while iving in Ethiopia among dozens to have property seized.’ Says it all about the current state of soft touch Britain brought about [more…]
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