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Small boy! Where are you going?
Read more: Small boy! Where are you going?Continuing the theme of language from my last blog, I will start by commenting on the blurb sent to me regarding a spring fabric exhibition in Paris. My designer companion and I attended last September and so knew what to expect this time. It bore out what one discovers if one has a particular specialism,… Know More
On ciggies, race and toilet humour…
Read more: On ciggies, race and toilet humour…I have been reading Simon Gray’s final memoirs, written just before he died in 2008, called, appropriately The Last Cigarette and the last in The Smoking Diaries series. It’s a bitter sweet, funny and dark affair. A sort of extended blog, a stream of consciousness which includes many a vitriolic diatribe against people, events and… Know More
Of blackbirds in pies and turkey voting patterns
Read more: Of blackbirds in pies and turkey voting patternsIt is such a burdensone cliché to mutter that something is so bizarrely contrary to personal welfare that it is like turkeys voting for Christmas. I thought that twenty four blackbirds voting for pies might be a fresher analogy. This is not just because of the nursery rhyme but because blackbirds’ songs are as pretty… Know More
Cleanse my blood
Read more: Cleanse my bloodI am wondering as I now observe the title for this piece unwrap itself from my thoughts and slide down my arms, pass through my fingers and appear upon my monitor, what each of you readers make of it? Those of you who harbour anxieties verging on hypochondria, may be looking eagerly for my report… Know More
Lest we forget…
Read more: Lest we forget…The latest joke on ageing came my way when I was in England. It was about the newest chair lift. It is very fast. It is so fast that you can remember why you went upstairs! I think I have always found myself in dilemmas resulting from forgetting why I have arrived in some part… Know More
He Madoff with the money
Read more: He Madoff with the moneyThis blog is a day or two late because of the journey back to Ghana from the UK. Apart from the unhappy business of discovering that the pound is an albatross currency that only really works in the UK, I won’t gripe over this septic isle – this time! But what are my money concerns… Know More
The War on Error
Read more: The War on ErrorClive James has a piece on the BBC website about how he can only think in chaos. It appears he has one of the rooms from hell (I assume that in hell, there are an infinite number of rooms); a vast jumble of related and unrelated sources of data in the form of books, newspapers,… Know More
Of camels, climates and politics
Read more: Of camels, climates and politicsLife, as they say, throws up its anomalies. I am in the UK for a period of work which has taken me to the north. After an over night flight from a hot, humid Ghana, I am stuck in a hotel that will never be graced by adjectives of approbation. One minute I am moving… Know More
Lonely Hearts: Love and unfaithfulness
Read more: Lonely Hearts: Love and unfaithfulnessI was interested in the following table on the BBC’s science site. Some psychologists have been analysing the key words that men and women use when advertising their wares in the shop window that is the Personal Columns. As you can see in the table below, women have a more pragmatic, economic outlook to the… Know More
Sex, flirtation and romance on the Internet
Read more: Sex, flirtation and romance on the InternetThe latest moral maze that has extruded from Second Life even made national news in the UK. Second Life, for those of you who don’t indulge (there are over 50 million who do!), is a virtual community where you can live a life interacting with others of similar bent. So, the news story goes, a… Know More