It’s all clear again at St Paul’s Cathedral in London so no one need fear going into this magnificent building to do whatever people do in there – pray for peace, I guess, and pray to end greed and poverty…
I wonder if, when God created life, he tried a few things out at the bottom of the sea first. Maybe it was his way of seeing whether this life thing was worthwhile at all. Luckily for us, I guess,…
I love this 19th Century photograph of a particularly sinister-looking doctor. If you ever feel squeamish about going to the surgery or, like me last week, to the dentist, just give a moment’s thought to the poor unfortunate patients of…
Times have moved on I guess since this advert dared show its face – then if the “little woman” was feeling anxious about her lot, her “big man” was advised just to stick a few pills in her. I was…
Now I like to think of myself as being as cool as the next man – well as long as the next man is a computer nerd in a woolly hat and hush puppy slip-on shoes. So I was saddened…
What should I give up for Lent? It is a difficult choice here in austerity Britain and austerity Europe and elsewhere too. I have already given up on our government with its collapsing health and economic policies – does that…
88 today! 88 today! It should be a day celebrate and, unfortunately, Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, has every intention of celebrating it to the full. It is too late now to wish him retribution for the cruel, blood-thirsty and…
As Louis Armstrong once say, it’s a wonderful World! Even if it doesn’t last for long, here in England over the last few days the temperature had risen, daylight has perceptively longer and there is that silent rumbling of Nature…
St Valentine’s Day is now long gone – well a week is a long time in some marriages – so here are some thoughts if you’re thinking about planning one of those days, we are told, that you will always…
OK, I know they look naff, those mobile phone photos with sad-looking geezer, looking at phone looking at mirror image down the gym, but, hey, everyone else does it, so why not me too! Going to the gym is a…