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Continue reading →: Happy birthday Keir
Yes, it’s the UK Prime Minister ‘s birthday today. He’s 62 and is already showing signs of assertiveness. Before the landslide election victory he marshalled his MPs to toe the party line and is now having to make the hard decisions about where cuts will be made. As a pensioner,…
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Continue reading →: The blame game
Political leaders and their parties when in opposition find fault with practically all decisions made by the government. Should they gain power they are frequently faced with the same decision-making dilemmas. Economics and the choices about scarce resources is not an exact science. There are ethical dilemmas when prioritising which…
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Continue reading →: Richard or rugby?
I have checked the Ulster Rugby home fixtures for 2024-2025 and there are eleven home games I could attend as a season ticket holder. Unfortunately there is one home fixture that clashes with a performance of Richard III at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast. Maybe I’ll wait to see what the…
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Continue reading →: Keeping it simple
Our youngest son is a bit of a dab hand at carpentry. He deconstructed the bunk beds that he and his brother had outgrown and fashioned two garden twin-seater benches. That was a decade or more ago. Since then the benches have stayed out in the back yard in all…
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Continue reading →: The authentic Italian experience
La Bottega is a restaurant café on the Lisburn Road in Belfast. Their focaccia with a variety of fillings is delicious, the coffee is excellent and the Italian music well chosen. Jeevan really cares about their coffee and is keen to create the perfect cup of espresso, cappuccino, latte or…
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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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