On Mortality
There is a time in every man’s life when he has to reflect on what has been and gone and what will be, on how he may have wasted his… Continue Reading
Browsing Category: Life
Choices
These have been hectic, mad weeks, these last few months, and it’s difficult to relate, in a few words and impressions, how my life has been changed by what I’ve… Continue Reading
Raging against the machine of useless education
I know people think I’m an intellectual snob. I know they think I use words that are too big for my mouth or even for the pages I write on…. Continue Reading
Not a game any more
So, this is it. The review copies have gone out, the advance advance copy has come back with some wonderful words from Sir Ranulph Fiennes, and we’re all set for… Continue Reading
Being Father II
This has been a difficult week. When considering this post, I realised how easy it is to write certain things into fiction rather than baring all as real people. Because… Continue Reading
Being Father
I started writing this post in Marmalades in Norwich yesterday, but my Android phone let me get no further than the title, for some odd reason. I wanted to write… Continue Reading
Of heroes (including Sir David Attenborough)
Last week, last Thursday to be precise, I had one of those days which will remain in the memory for a long time. A day to evoke a variety of… Continue Reading
Serendipity
I’ve been meaning to write this post for ages, ever since just after Easter, in fact, but real life just keeps intruding and dragging my mind and hands away from… Continue Reading
On passing the buck – the BBC and the banks
I had intended to blog about this last week, but now I’m glad I didn’t, as the BBC’s announcement today of swingeing cuts puts what I have to say into… Continue Reading
The desolation of words
The last four months have been difficult, to say the least. Not difficult in the struggling to make a living sense of the term, but in the where is this… Continue Reading