We all need something to believe in. So it seems. Not just because human society keeps creating religions no matter how absurdist, but even as individuals outside of the State we seek emotional compass points, things we can be certain of or rely upon, to direct our lives. Mexico City in an act of delightful…
Month: October 2011
Steven Jobs
Having always used computers for work and been sceptical as to the efficacy of most gadgets in my life as they seem to be part-and-parcel of a lifestyle that is always on the move (ironic since the computer age was supposed to make us efficient without going out of our homes) I have been surprised…
I’ll believe it if you say so
My uncle Allen was always full of stories all of them hilarious. It was like liquid wit, impossible to say where the ideas came from or where he was going they just poured from him, but amongst these stories were many that he claimed were true. He went to Durham University and trained as a…
Disney
Now my mother enjoys watching endless Disney cartoons I recall how the political incorrectness, the terribly corny story lines and the inherent racism of so much of what Disney made went completely over my head as a child. I loved the colours, the magical way fantasy was brought to life, talking animals and all the…
Web Pages
Trying to find a template either to buy or clone or work from that suits a publishing house like FootSteps Press has been a labour of exasperation. I have viewed hundreds and having dismissed flash as being too glitzy and bandwidth hungry, I have yet to find one that does in a simple and efficient…
G.K.Chesterton
The Rolling English Road Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode, The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. A reeling road, a rolling road, that rambles round the shire, And after him the parson ran, the sexton and the squire; A merry road, a mazy road, and such as…
John Masefield
Cargoes Quinquireme1 of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine. Stately Spanish galleon coming from the Isthmus, Dipping through the Tropics by the palm-green shores, With a cargo of diamonds, Emeralds, amethysts, Topazes, and cinnamon, and…