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…

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…