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Continue reading →: Inspiration
A useful tip I learnt from Carol Ann Duffy’s online course (BBC Maestro) was to keep a store of words or phrases that have caught your attention. In my case it was the word drudgery. I managed to write a poem based on that theme which you will find on…
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Continue reading →: Think once…
Memory lapses, hair loss, excess hair in cranial orifices, a fondness for beige. I’m not sure how many of those boxes I am ticking, but a recent example of memory loss was the purchase of the book Truth by Simon Blackburn. I remember ordering it online from Waterstones and that…
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Continue reading →: Scepticism
I am reading a book titled Truth by a philosopher called Simon Blackburn. It is a good book to ease myself back into academic study. So far I have managed to read the Preface and Introduction and two further pages before I lost concentration. His opinion of scepticism is understandable if…
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Continue reading →: Self Satisfaction
A better night’s sleep, and yet I was still up at 6am to potter about in the kitchen and prepare my beloved’s breakfast tray. She is back at work so I hardly knew how to occupy my time. Shopping in the empty aisles of Sainsbury’s I picked up some exotic…
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Continue reading →: Be more dog
There was an interesting article in last Sunday’s Observer magazine. Mark Rowlands is a philosopher and dog owner who put forward the idea that dogs have the right idea about life – just live it. His 5 tips on how to be more dog:
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Continue reading →: Bulhouse East
Every Tuesday my older son and I visit a bar on the other side of town called Bulhouse East. They brew their own ales and have several guest ales, also on draught. My current favourite is Road Trippin, a refreshing pale ale that goes down very easily. They have stouts…
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Continue reading →: Dormant Sunday mornings
Northern Ireland has strict licencing laws that protect it’s citizens from the evils of drink on a Sunday morning. The consequence of that religiously inspired decision is that Sunday mornings are dead times…no supermarkets open until 1 pm and very few coffee bars open much before midday.
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Continue reading →: Ghostly emptiness of early morning supermarket
I have been out and about very early of late. Sainsbury’s opens at 8am, and during the school holidays the vast emporium is practically empty. It feels a bit like the atmosphere of the film ‘The Shining’. If twin young girls appeared in the cleaning products aisle I wouldn’t be…
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Continue reading →: The woman who wasn’t there
Fergus, a man of 90 years and sober for 42 years told me this true story… He was only on his first pint of the day in a bar in South Belfast in the 1980s when the gunmen burst in and started firing. The man next to him dragged him…
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