In the complexities of society every individual has their own trajectory into and out of adversity of one sort or another. We can argue that worrying all night about a billion pound deal and worrying if your child is going to survive the night carry the same weight of stress but it is stress and…
Month: May 2024
I Don’t Do Boxing
I have very little time for the sport, the results or the men involved (apart from the sharp minded Ali) but watching the news I saw the results of this match in Saudi Arabia. Fury looked hugely unfit and when I learned he had been paid £100,000,000 for the night I realised why. He didn’t…
I am Not …
much of a man for flower gardens. Pretty bushes and perfumed flowers are pleasant enough but they don’t actually mean much to me. I have always preferred trees and conservation woodlands and in them, the sweet woodland flowers like bluebells and wood anemones are far more lovely to my eyes than any bed of flowering…
Tax
There has never been a sensible conversation with the public here in the UK about how tax is spent. There is such a lot of wastage in public finances that people actually dislike paying taxes because they never think the money is going to be spent well. The whole issue revolves around what kind of…
Sudan
Millions are starving and the situation is gearing up to be the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today. Access to get aid into the war torn regions is impossible at times and there is no end to the warring between the parties. Hundreds are displaced (5.8 million so far) and hundreds of villages have…
The Journalistic Struggle
I have always been something of an admirer of people who go to war just to get the story for the people back home. It has been a very important part of the world realising what soldiers have always known – there is no glory is victory because it is gained over too many dead….
Land Rights
I was talking to a lady today as we drove to get her shopping and she mentioned that farming was all about money and I mentioned the enclosures of the 17th century. She had never heard of it. In brief there were a series of Acts of Parliament which enclosed common land, creating legal private…
Something Quiet
My neighbour has to move two land-pods he used for guests to stay in. They are sitting too close to the trees and the damp speeds up the growth of a particular mold on the wood which lessens the lifespan of the pods. So he asked a farmer to come over and me to be…
Fascism
When I was at college I understood that anyone you didn’t agree with very quickly became a fascist. Fascism has been with us forever which is why it is absurd these days to continually talk of left and right in politics. A left leaning right wing thinker will have socialist ideas of society and a…
Birthdays
The Romans famously started counting their lives at inception so when they were born they were already nine months old. It meant that mothers and father instead of celebrating a day the mother was creaming her head off for hours, they could celebrate a really good joint climax. I don’t think children felt as squeamish…