I used to love to read Blyton books and vividly remember being bought 3 all at once and feeling myself very rich. Most of the time I had to trawl through the second hand shops (one I remember as the bus ride never stopped there, you had to cross a subway and walk down a…
I Have Been Asked
to do a podcast. The time will be 9.30 am EST Thursday 25th March 2010, about 2.30pm here in the UK (how civilised my first intervene and I will be awake after lunch!) The link is: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/internetbusinesspeoplecafe He is a nice man who even suggested he would interview off air and record it and play…
Mobile History
Human beings love to communicate. It will be one of the great discoveries to find out which came first the voice or the brain. Through stele, scrolls and printing presses to the internet, telephone and radio phone we will develop our ability to communicate easily with each other anywhere in the world and one day…
Bone Flutes
There were, anthropologists tell us, small flutes made of the bones of animals which our distant ancestors used. Along with some kind of drum which seems to be a universal early instrument. But it was a long road from those to Haydn. Like all roads, to Science, to Art, to Society itself, human endeavours are…
The Dragon – A Fairystory
Twilight. Trees cover the mountainside. Their bark blistered; their branches bare; their trunks broken. Rocks are cracked, deep cuts score the ground, dried up ravines are etched into the mountain side. Pathways meander to the top which are used by the huge beast which lives in the vast caves beneath. The dying dragon pulls her…
If I Could Write . . .
I would of course be brilliant. I would be Zola reborn, I would be deep yet brief like Chekhov, I would be passionate and sparse like Steinbeck, I would be wide-ranging and evocative like Fast. There would be a hint of Byron in my irony and humour, the politics of Mary Ann Evans in my…
To Folly We Drink
It is strange to me to think that in a world where everything including the planet was given as a free gift with nothing more than the transference of energy needed to accomplish anything in a human life, that we created money. That we divided the planet up into sections we can buy and sell…
Rivers Come And Go
There is great beauty around a tidal river. I grew up with one and getting to know the hours of its high and low tides gives one a knowledge of the phases of the moon. Gives one an appreciation of how boats rise and fall and tip gently when they hit the bottom of the…
History Is Long, Memory Is Short
If a generation is 25 years there have been 80 generations since Jesus lived and 104 since the Buddha. I am sure someone could work out the days and I am certain some church somewhere has a sign ‘XXXX Days since Calvary How Many More To Go?’ These are not huge numbers. They are not…
I am Just Delighted
http://internetreviewofbooks.com/mar10/brief_reviews.html A BRIEF HISTORY OF LIES: The Most Brilliant Book Ever Written! By Daniel Nanavati 106 pp. CreateSpace $8 I expected A Brief History of Lies to be whimsical, and it is—and funny, too, with delightful British humor. But it’s also, philosophical and … surprisingly wise. If it appears simple at first glance, that’s deceptive….