I do find monarchies difficult to understand. I think it is because I have no empathy with worshipping images and devotion to monarchy is all about image. In history they have been sallow, intelligent but brutal, selfish, and to body politic dangerous. Today in England they have a retinue if immense privilege but have been…
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Damn Phones
Mislaid my Samsung android. Not in the house. Not on the floor. Not in the car. I have one more place to look and if it isn’t there I must have dropped it somewhere outdoors but I don’t know how. I had it with me when I actually arrived home yesterday. In the meantime if…
Patience Has A Way or Burning
You can wait. It isn’t a bad thing to do though the years can roll by. But better by far than those who think they have to experience and become rich by forty because they are hell to be around. Like Bolsinaro in Brazil busy killing trees and animals and plants the exotic compounds in…
My Country is Broken
Most are but in 2016 every racist in the UK voted to leave the European Union. Enough people joined with them to give them a slim majority of those who voted. They assisted in the country doing what every racist in its borders wanted it to do. In the lead up to this hideous fact…
Re-Coinage
The new government here in the UK has just created the worst first week in office in living memory. The man and woman in charge of this huge upset to people’s lives are both educated to degree and PhD level so it isn’t lack of intelligence. The Chancellor’s economic qualification was a thesis on the…
These Misty Mornings
Something lovely about walking in wellington boots across my field and garden this time of year. You can see where I have been and how high I lift my feet by the darker green trail trail left in the grass where I have unsettled the dew. It is as distinctive as seeing birds’ feet in…
We are the Music Makers
There is a long poems of which most people who know it remember the first three stanzas. It is very beautiful and in its way reflects much of what I think of poetry: We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom the pale…
Keeping Bees
I started to to try to keep some bees with a swarm of black Cornish bees given to me last March. Being me I wanted to do things differently and am trying to work to have healthy bees more than honey, so I instinctively dislike the idea of feeding them sugar and stealing as…
How Little We Have Become
The politics of today has the same round of ever increasing growth. We know that to continue growing without destroying the habitability of large tracks of the planet we will have to mind asteroids and other planets. In other words that the system of plunder we have grown so accustomed to will continue. Unless and…
So much for intelligence
Dogma is a dangerous thing. Our new chancellor is a high academic achiever who has studied history and studied economics. Yet he has laid the entire country low because he believes people who have money invest it in businesses that create jobs. Whereas the truth of the matter is they invest their money with people…