I was too young to appreciate Fawlty Towers when it first aired – I grew into it through repeats, videos and with buying the soundtracks to a few of the episodes. With the restaurant scenes [more…]
Our ancestors built cathedrals meant to stand for a thousand years. We build glass towers that last two decades before demolishing them because the aesthetic has gone stale. And now we have crowned our civilisation’s [more…]
‘Twas on a grey, damp and dismal day in January that, together with a couple of my ‘dementia friends’, I headed off to Fort Nelson, one of Palmerston’s Follies. This particular Fort is not quite [more…]
We all looked into the vault, lit by the thin winter daylight seeping through the window behind us. Indeed there was no trace of anything but the pallet lying forlornly in the middle of the [more…]
Whether you like it or hate it, the war in Iran has definitely had the effect of exposing some of the ridiculous fantasies in the world to a serious dose of reality. Consider the UK. [more…]
In my last piece I realised there was so much material about my high school days that it couldn’t possibly fit into one article. This is not about reading but the staff at my high [more…]
Americans know Somalia from the film “Black Hawk Down” based on the U.S. intervention of 1993. The U.S. had armed Somalia’s strong man, Siad Barre, as a counter to Ethiopia’s Marxist government, but with the [more…]
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…]
During the many years I spent with my friend the famous consulting detective Sherlock Holmes I have had the privilege of publishing accounts of many of his cases, almost without exception triumphantly brought to a [more…]
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