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Continue reading →: Mulled wine recipe
1 bottle of red wine 1 orange sliced into rounds 8 whole cloves 2 cinnamonn sticks 2 star anise 2-4 tablespoons of honey or sugar or syrup 1/4 cup of brandy or rum or cognac (optional) Mix all the ingredients in a large pan. Cook until just on the point…
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Continue reading →: Cat in the hat
Getting to Colmar was harder tham I thought, I jumped train when I realised we were headed South, Basel is a border city and a rail intersection. Trains to Colmar were clearly marked. It’s a shame I couldn’t read human scrawlings. I had gleaned enough information by tuning my ears…
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Continue reading →: Heidegger’s cat goes feral
Freiburg had lost its appeal, too much marching and politics. I tried to engage with Heidegger, but he was lost in a haze of Nazi existentialism. I didn’t worry about being fed, it was easy enough to scrounge food and drink, you just had to look for the biggest swastika…
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Continue reading →: Exhibitionism
I set the alarm for 1am to watch the Tyson fight with my son. First on the card were two Super Featherweights, Bryan Vasquez, the WBA champion and his challenger, Rene Gonzalez. This was full on, sometimes toe to toe boxing of high quality. Gonzalez could have made better use…
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Continue reading →: Schrödinger goes to Dublin
Leaving Europe;s shores was a huge relief. The Nazis dominated what had been a liberal democracy shaking off the cobwebs of the Kaiser and his empire. The Right Wing were rattling the sabres of war and using Jews as scapegoats for a mismanaged economy and excessive reparations for the Great…
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Continue reading →: From a cat’s perspective
There was a lot going on in the early 1930s. The streets of Berlin were full of uniformed thugs waving banners and weapons about. Those with stars on their clothing were spat upon or worse. Hatred and fear were everywhere. Heidegger carried on mooching about, writing and thinking. He did…
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Continue reading →: Love a duck
It comes as no surprise that democracy’s greatest champion is a duck, or rubber duck to be precise.Thai protesters facing water canon and teargas improvised shields with giant rubber ducks they had brought with them as a joke. At a further rally other ducks flocked to their comrades’ side and…
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Continue reading →: Schrödinger’s ambivalent attitude towards cats
Waking up to find that Heidegger’s cat liked my company, or at least the warmth of my Vienna apartment, I resigned myself to being a cat lover. I had no suitable food for…what was I going to call him? Fortunately the corner shop had a selection of tinned catfood. I…
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Continue reading →: Heidegger’s cat
I first met Heidegger’s cat on my way home from a nightclub called Schrodinger’s. We were both pretty wasted and moved warily towards my front door. Heidegger didn’t mind the independent streak in his feline friend, which was a good job because his cat was very much a free spirit.…
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Continue reading →: Bombings and Killings
Not a cheery topic, but in the local news again. The IRA bombed pubs in Birmingham in 1974, but never claimed them officially. 21 people died and over 200 were wounded. “IRA bomb maker Michel Hayes, has claimed he was involved in the atrocity, but refused to say what role…
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