Back in the 1980s when I first began to write for children I was told by the agents and publishers in the UK that children didn’t read about magic anymore, that I needed to add more realism to my work. I didn’t believe them and thought this was the Pollingers teaching (they were agents) and…
How The Masses Are Created
So someone posts the knife attacker in Southport was a Muslim and there is a riot outside of a Mosque in which the rioters are not from Southport but inspired by social media to congregate. It takes many moths and sometimes an entire upbringing to get someone to attend a rally of this nature and…
Children Are Doing Badly
12 children in a Druze village, 3 children in a British town all in the same week. It goes against everything adults should be doing, to protect the new generation. The 17 year old who killed three children and the jihadi fascists who miss-fired their sickening missile are not adults in any sense of the…
Nothing Changes
So we elected a Labour Government a week ago and today we are told two children have been murdered in a knife attack and two days ago we were witness to video of a man going berserk in an airport and being tasered and the Chancellor declaring the last government lied about the funding they…
Edinburgh Fringe
They vote for the funniest joke of the Fringe every year. here are a few winners: – 2023 – Lorna Rose Treen ‘I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah.’ 2022 – Masai Graham ‘I tried to steal spaghetti from the shop, but the female guard saw me and I…
A Cornish Afternoon
I went to a garden party in a local Cornish village and sold cards and and a few art books to raise funds for the church. I laughed with the vicar and made new friends and raced a snail and in the late afternoon after the music had died down and the people were mostly…
Why Oxygen?
Oxygen’s key role is to function as a terminal electron acceptor. In other words, it is like the positive terminal on a battery. Food (like carbohydrates) function as the negative terminal. Electrons flow from food to oxygen, and cells capture some of this energy along the way, similar to how a light bulb captures the…
What Freedoms?
I have tried to see where the freedoms are we hear so much about. I understand we have freedom of thought – with the caveats that education can limit ones preparedness to imbibe information. That said it makes sense we all have a freedom to think. Politically we have a freedom of speech which is…
It’s just Weather
I chatted to a friend in London today and she said ‘I hope you are enjoying the sunny weather’. I smiled. This is the second full day of constant drizzle. But then, we are lucky there are people in the world who would give anything for two days of drizzle in their droughts, in their…
You Would Understand Why
You Would Understand Why You would understand why – Why lilac and Chopin go together – Just before spring or after winter’s Retreat back into the earth – Our beginning and our end – You would understand this – This sudden sadness and lack of will – When my body feels full-up with stones…