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Continue reading →: Reference points
It may be useful to offer various representations to help us imagine the size or weight of things. As described in a BBC web article, Wales has long been used as a way of describing land areas, double decker buses for height and…
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Continue reading →: Red card blues
One wrong decision can spoil the enjoyment of an evenly fought contest. The accidental collision of two players in a game of rugby gave rise to just such an injustice. The referee got it wrong at the Ulster vs Saracens game in the Heineken Cup quarter finals, resulting in Jared Payne’s…
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Continue reading →: Songs that bring back memories
As an old fart who likes music I am getting a reputation for picking obscure songs at work to listen to on a Friday afternoon. Today’s choice was anything by Gilbert Becaud, so we listened to Et Maintenant – a classic (…
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Continue reading →: Crazy Love
I was at the Black Box cafe the other day and spent part of an enjoyable evening making arty conversation with a guy called Peter. This was the prelude to watching Crazy Love a Belgian film based on stories by Charles Bukowski. To round off this tribute night there were readings of Bukowski’s poetry…
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Continue reading →: Culls
The summit meeting came to order after a lively debate about culling. The giraffes had argued that the human gene pool was becoming concentrated around the few oligarchs who dominate their tribes through economic advantage. Several felines objected to repeated use of the expression ‘fat cats’ pointing out that human obesity was more…
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Continue reading →: Fiction
Thank you David Simon and Kate Atkinson. Two books one after the other that have given my brain an escape from the mundane. Homicide – A Year on the Killing Streets written by the creative genius behind the tv drama ‘The Wire‘ was a brick of a book that paid tribute…
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