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Continue reading →: Neighbourhood
When I am trying to study I go in search of cafés or bars because at home I can always find something to do apart from study. Today I found an interesting café called Neighbourhood in the Cathedral Quarter of Belfast. They have some unusual items on their menu, including…
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Continue reading →: What is science?
Karl Popper, a famous philosopher of science, addressed that question by examining what is not science and is what he called ‘pseudo-science’. Marxism, astrology and Freud’s theories about the mind were all ‘pseudo-science’ according to Popper. He held the view that science was neither empirical nor inductive. Scientific knowledge is…
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Continue reading →: Green eggs
Dr Seuss had a point, until you’ve tried green eggs you don’t know what you’re missing, Instead of ham I had a delicious sausage to go with my eggs on sourdough. The Pocket restaurant is a hidden gem in central Belfast. Great service and tasty food.
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Continue reading →: Work avoidance
I don’t feel comfortable with deadlines or scheduled tasks. It’s a bit like kicking against the pricks… pointless. Retirement has given me opportunities to do stuff that I wasn’t inclined to do when I was working. I say working but I never conformed to that model of corporate fidelity. I…
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Continue reading →: Sovereignty
Western super powers were reluctant to give up their colonies. Great Britain had painted the globe pink with the extent of its empire and finally marched its armies out of India and other golden geese to retain them in the British Commonwealth and keep them as allies. The consequences of…
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Continue reading →: Putin’s murdered opponents
Machiavelli would have been proud of Vladimir Putin’s ruthless use of power. Those who have dared to criticise his regime risked death or imprisonment. Having failed to kill Alexei Navalny, Putin’s harshest critic, using the nerve agent Novichok, they sentenced him to imprisonment in a penal colony in the North…
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Continue reading →: The weeds are winning
There was a time when we were more on top of things, particularly gardening. We have a small front garden with a square of grass and bushy plants up to the low metal fence. At the back of the house the ground slopes gradually down to the wooden fencing. We…
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Continue reading →: Pampering
Some might think we’ve lost it, and they could be right, we are booking into a hotel for one night less than 3 miles from our house. 4 star luxury, spa treatments and a swimming pool. Just what we both need. The evening meal in the River Bar was tasty.…
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Continue reading →: Carol Ann Duffy – Maestro
I am dithering over whether to sign up for Carol Ann Duffy’s poetry master class. To convince ditherers like me there is a free sample that I haven’t watched yet. One of her poems that I came across in Clive James’ anthology “The Fire of Joy” is called Mrs Midas.…
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Continue reading →: Nice
I asked some people in the Bulhouse East bar what they thought of my poems. There was one “Wow!” and some lovely and nice comments.. Now call me churlish but I was hoping for something more …artsy? My distaste for nice and lovely started when a tutor on a Residential…
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