The recent meeting and communique concerning the Ukraine/Russian offensive is of no use. Firstly everything said about territorial integrity the countries would have said for months to Russian ambassadors so nothing is new. Secondly it doesn’t mean anything because it could refer to whatever is left after a peace treaty is signed and Russia refuses…
Month: June 2024
Sea Theme
Sea–Theme Awash the rocks with sea–green kelp – Sea–gulls’ beaks yellow with sun Glitter against sky and cloud. Wild ferns shake gently to and fro – High into hills and faraway Wanders a moorland deep with mystery – The ocean frames it all, its movements Captured forever by the watching Moon; Whose white, long fingers…
Failing while falling
Cornwall council is trying to be green with its refuse collection. It has taken it from weekly to fortnightly and supplied a lockable black bin to everyone in the region – or is in the process of doing so. This black bin with very clear lettering on the side is plastic. I already have a…
Who Decides
Recently the elections started in the UK and every day the reporters are out talking to people and following the candidates. On the day, the comments or events are given a weight by the reporters – most notably here the D Day celebrations – and made small or big immediately. There is no percolation of…
Only the rose
Cutting the grass to that smoother look which is still rough when I get close is far more loved by the birds and the dogs because they feel safer on ground they can see ahead and I guess, they still worry about snakes in longer grass. It is hot work in this weather and cleaning…
Genocide
There is an horrific video of a man with an elephant gun jumping over many elephant bodies shooting those who are only wounded. It is part of a cull to wipe out nuisances destroying crops or just being in the way of human beings. We now have experts studying elephants that they have names and…
Aliens
I have read a little about what locals and modern thinkers believe on the great building works of five thousand years ago and more. The idea that human beings were not capable of traversing great distances with huge stones, or building to tolerances it is hard to manage to day with al our machines, seems…
I never knew why
For many years until I was in my early twenties whenever there was a high wind or a storm I was unnerved by the fear that hills and the ground would start to moves and I would be thrown over. I used to get indoors and shut the doors to quell the fear. It was…
Remembrance
There is an awful irony in remembrance of wars. We choose the wars we want to remember. Maybe it is a function of the changing culture in the west or maybe the emergence of media but we make a huge thing of the second world war, and the first world war, but we make nothing…
D-Day
Today we celebrate a particular battle, like so many we celebrate, that has ensured the path of history in which we all live. We can talk to the human stupidity of following the dictates of one man and of the sacrifices demanded to stop him and them, but what we should remember is the awful…