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Continue reading →: Getting older
Having clocked up my three score years and ten, I feel entitled to my senior citizen travel card and any other concessions going. The aching hips, knees and shoulders are brief inconveniences, usually first thing in the morning. I have always had trouble with my teeth because of an inherited…
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Continue reading →: Just war?
The two superpowers have embarked on wars that have involved neighbouring countries. The Russian invasion of Ukraine brought about the military support of the EU. Donald Trump as peacemaker in negotiations between Zelensky and Putin has failed to reach an acceptable compromise. Why would the invaded nation concede territory to…
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Continue reading →: Would you save a drowning child in a pond?
Peter Singer’s startling analogy asks us to consider sacrificing our consumerist values in favour of famine relief for refugees. His thoughts expressed in 1971 in a journal article ‘Famine, Affluence and Morality’ are a call for those who can afford to make acceptable sacrifices to do so to relieve the…
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Continue reading →: Smoking
Gregor Hens has written an autobiographical account of his relationship with nicotine. I am reading a Kindle version of his book and haven’t decided if I will skip read it or not. Will Self wrote the foreword with high praise for the subject and the author (who translates his stuff…
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Continue reading →: A lesson in wood
We continued our search for a wooden kitchen table by visiting M Large, a local arborist and family business who provide a range of tree services. Jimmy showed us a selection of wooden planks in elm, smoked oak, oak and even sequoia. He was a mine of useful information that…
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Continue reading →: Singers review
I watched a charming short film on Netflix the other day called Singers. The film is set in a bar with subdued lighting. The owner of the bar is prompted to issue a challenge to the patrons to see who is the best singer. We are welcomed into their company…
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Continue reading →: Blockheads
It should come as no great surprise that AI makes mistakes – it’s only human after all. But you would think that a simple task like counting the number of people in a crowd would be child’s play for AI. Not so, apparently the hexagonal shapes at Giant’s Causeway were…
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Continue reading →: Oak furniture
We have bought a range of bedroom furniture from Oak Furnitureland. Martin the salesman was very helpful and explained that the oak was sustainably sourced from countries like USA, Germany, Lithuania and China from young trees. We were advised not to use standard furniture polish like Mr Sheen to clean…
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Continue reading →: A mattress for sore hips?
We have bought some bedroom furniture from Oak Furnitureland including a bed. I wake up every morning with sore hips so when we buy a new mattress I’m lkeen to get something that gives me the right support. The Guardian newspaper recommends the Otty Original Hybrid as the overall winner…
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