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Headers in footer and the intellectually challenged
Read more: Headers in footer and the intellectually challengedI was running along the inside left channel, hardly able to see. The rain, lashing down, was turning my spectacle lenses into something approaching the patterned glass of the bathroom door. The ground under my feet squelched and I am sure that my private parts had withdrawn to warmer climes inside my body. Football on… Know More
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Stories without words
Read more: Stories without wordsWhen media presenters and reporters talk about stories ‘breaking’, they are referring to the crude refinery that is a news room. It is like a well gushing. They take the crude oil or data with all its impurities and make a sharp, clean narrative from it, thereby excluding the dross (ie that which does not… Know More
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Fitting in to the scheme of things
Read more: Fitting in to the scheme of thingsHaving had something of a Christian upbringing – at least until the age of 8 or 9, I have a certain grounding in biblical matters. Given the seasonal cycles of church offerings, every year the lessons and sermons and readings would come round again and again. And these were then repeated in school. By the… Know More
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MacBush: that play
Read more: MacBush: that playMacbeth points out at some stage in his journey to destruction that he is too much in blood to retreat again to any moral position. Shakespeare’s point being that once an individual or nation embarks on a murderous course, only the intervention of external or occult powers, can halt it. There is something in the… Know More
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Babes in Arms: Israeli Spokeswomen
Read more: Babes in Arms: Israeli SpokeswomenScanning the internet and You Tube, in particular, I see there are swathes of criticism being directed at Israel for her inhumane war on the Gaza people. Enough for me not to reiterate. However, atrocities cannot pass without a blog such as this adding its small voice to the debate because every discourse about morality… Know More
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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