Downloading My Brain

This poem was  popular with my parents generation - a staple of school anthologies. It was a particular favourite of my mother's.   Ca...

Recent links I liked: Fire-fighting: Hot topic . The frightening phenomenon of the flash-over.. A report this week tells us that the numbe...

PAIN has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not. It has no future but itself, ...

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We know that tobacco had its opponents from the day it was first introduced to these shores - not least in King James I, who wrote a diatrib...

Friday’s bus into town held a surprise – luggage racks full of suitcases. Three or four couples off to the airport, on holiday. All pension...

Recent links I liked: The Irn Lady  making the connections between Maggie Thatcher, Pierre Trudeau, Irn Bru & belief in Coke. Humble...