New technology and those green shoots
Even if everyone is wrong, this really does seem to be time for those “green shoots.” I am not an economist, in fact I am barely numerate, but I do know that shares have risen this week all over the…
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What’s going on in the garden?
The primroses that I bored you with the other day are still there in their urns, resplendent as one of England’s most beautiful natural plants in their unexpectedly formal setting. They have been joined by those golden croci planted in…
A little less sympathy for the family doctor, please.
It is doctors and nurses time for me now. Yesterday I went to the neurological hospital, it used to be called the funny farm in less sensitive times, to see my consultant. Today I go to the bone man, the…
Sometimes getting something wrong is getting it right
Just a piece of self-indulgence today – so forgive me. In the coldest and frostiest part of the winter when I was feeling pretty ill, I was frustrated that I hadn’t been well enough to plant a new batch of…
Killing people just isn’t a joke
I understand the power of dark humour. Well I used to think so until this weekend. The so-called Real IRA claimed responsibility for murdering two British soldiers and wounding two others as well as two pizza deliverymen at the Massereene…
Can you listen to Joni Mitchell, Above & Beyond, and Bruckner on your iPod?
I know that hi-fi bores are right up there in the league of untouchables, along with Jehovah’s Witnesses and philatelists, stamp collectors to you and me, but there has been a major revolution going on out there in the world…
What actually happened here in 1264
When I went out into my back garden, or yard as I probably should call it, to do my Da Mo moving meditation exercises, my mind, instead of going to nowhere in particular on its way to enlightenment, concentrated on…
Gandhi’s specs
There was something truly poignant about that Mahatma Gandhi sale yesterday in New York. His glasses, a pair of old sandals, his watch and a brass bowl and plate were sold at auction for an extraordinary £1,27 million ($1.8million). Gandhi,…
Let’s savour our moments of freedom
It must have felt great and also rather frightening to have been Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister, yesterday when he addressed to Houses of Congress in Washington D.C. For a moment he was free from the tensions and strains…
All I want is a proper cup of coffee
There is an old music hall song, a tongue twister, and it goes like this: “All I want is a proper cup of coffee,Made in a proper copper coffee pot.You’ll think I am off my jot,If I say I want…