We have a couple of cats. One of them in particular is very much “my” cat, at least in his opinion. He gets bothered when I don’t come home from work in time. He shouts at me until I sit down so he can sit on my lap. He sits in the window looking for […]
You may or may not be aware that we are currently in the month of Movember. No, that’s not a typo, it’s Movember. Movember is an annual campaign to raise awareness of men’s health, particular prostrate and testicular cancer, and also to raise funds for the same. It does this primarily through encouraging men to […]
Listening to the radio whilst running late for work, and there’s an American chap on plugging his book on lying in public life. Moderately interesting chat with him and Kim Howells (sp?). However, it ended with the gem that one of the biggest lies told in recent times was during the Cold War. Namely Western […]
It’s a funny thing, a point of view. Rather like wondering why your photos of a sunny day never look as rich as your memories, until you take your sunglasses off and realise you were looking at the world through a filter, we don’t often twig to the preconceptions and prejudices we bring to an […]
This is neither profound nor insightful, but friends are a good thing, and spending time with them doubly so.