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…
If Freedom
I have been thinking about freedom in the West – and where it exists elsewhere – and I have found only 4 freedoms I can identify. We all have the freedom the think – at whatever level we attain. In the Western, liberal world we have the essential freedom of speech. The right to speak…
The Battle Of Bytes
I have been reading of the latest round of interventions by the large Media groups so stop people pirating their goods and believe there is an interesting and very human dynamic that has not been well explored on the Internet. The act of sharing – taking a piece of music or software – and physically…