Do politicians tell the truth?
Have you ever lied? You know, someone asks you something and you really don’t want them to know the truth. Did you steal that apple? What apple? Is the first reaction of a guilty man playing for time and trying…
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On the death of a child
The British House of Commons suspended the weekly knockabout debate known as Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday and were replaced by tributes to a six year old child lead by the Prime Minister and echoed by the whole house which was…
Oh well, here comes Lent.
I don’t know if you realized but today is Ash Wednesday, oh no, the beginning of Lent. It is time to give up all your pleasures and to think gloomy thoughts about sin and death. Great. It is the big…
Mardi Gras! Come on everyone, go wild!
Mardi Gras! From New Orleans to Rio, the carnival is here. Yay! Well, maybe not everywhere as you can see from the photographs. Well those two old men might be planning something wild for later on, who knows. The two…
Meditating on the Oscars.
I wasn’t at the Oscars last night as you probably noticed. Well, it is just not my thing really. All that glitz and glamour, the showing off, the vanity, to say nothing about the blatant display of emotion. It is…
The view from the gilded throne
Maybe I should get out more. I have been incarcerated now, well with a few exceptions, since coming out of hospital in November. House arrest they call it in some countries. It used to sound quite pleasant to me. House…
Bud Burst
We are well on our way out of February and I have already shown you some of those early Spring flowers that inspired me the other week in my small courtyard garden. So this morning I was looking at sticks.…
What’s your tipple?
When my neurologist asked me how much I drink, I was amazed. For over three months now I have been alocohol free because the instructions on my packet of anti-seizure drugs told me not to drink. With the self-righteousness of…
Dreams of wealth – a nightmare for the World.
I was looking at my bank statement this morning and, unusually for me, I noticed that there was more money in there than I expected. It is amazing how cheap doing nothing is. I have been “careful” on doctor’s instructions…
Joni Mitchell and the comfort of melancholy
I have a slight cold. Nothing compared to a brain haemorrhage I know but enough to give me that pleasant convalescent feeling which minor ailments can carry with them. As a not very well known cold cure, I have been…