21 years down, sixty-plus still to go??! Hard to believe, but Jerry Parrot celebrated her 21st birthday….or hatchday….this month, a day that was marked with…
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I think I may have found a new guilty pleasure. I recently came across an American writer, Katherine Center. Well, I assume she’s American otherwise…
Leave a CommentWith lockdown lifting, will we drift back to our old ways? BRAVE NEW OR SAME OLD? As the world slowly unfurls itself like a giant…
Leave a CommentA Reflection on the Month just Gone and Surviving the Next! Month one of lockdown is behind us. But the world, far from being brave…
Leave a Comment14 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About the Ides of March “Beware the Ides of March,” warned the soothsayer to Julius Caesar. At least, that’s…
Leave a CommentMusic’s Ever-Shifting Soundscape “I can’t possibly go back to CDs!” This is what I heard myself wail, panic stricken, as my much-loved iPod Classic finally…
Leave a CommentLooking Forward to Looking Back As plenty of people have been at pains to point out over the last few weeks, 2020 is not in…
Leave a CommentChristmas Traditions If ever there is a month associated with tradition, it is December, dominated as it is by the repeated patterns of Christmas. Whether…
Leave a CommentIt’s November 1st, and until very recently much of Britain believed it would be waking up to a new dawn, a new and scary dawn…
Leave a CommentIt’s October and that means many things. Pumpkins won’t just find their way into soups and stews but out onto window ledges and doorsteps. Questionable…
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