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Continue reading →: Brain injury
I am taking an online course in Psychology. One of the fascinating facts is about Phineas Gage, a 24 year old railroad employee who was blasting rock. Whilst using a tamping iron rod to compact the explosive a spark ignited the explosive and shot the iron rod up under his…
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Continue reading →: Life on an even keel
Mowa We watched in awe as the six-ton sloop was lowered into the sea.A Brixham Waterbug made of wood with a tall mast and a short bowspritMum and Dad sailed her along the South coast to the Beaulieu riverWhere oaks were crafted into battleships at Buckler’s Hard,Our mooring for weekend…
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Continue reading →: Hooked on Reality TV
Lockdown TV viewing has come with some compromises, one of which was watching Married at First Sight, Australia with my better half. To begon with I found it excruciating, then I mocked and mimicked the accent, then I identified with some of the participants. Finally I became enraged by the…
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Continue reading →: Pandemic Stats
There is an awful lot of information to take in on a daily basis about Covid-19. If, like me, you embrace generalities, the fine detail becomes overwhelming. There’s stuff that you could probably have made a good guess at after all this time, like the elderly and people with pre-existing…
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Continue reading →: Cappuccino or espresso?
I have started making cappuccinos for myself in the morning. Having mastered the milk frothing process, I am a convert to the gentler coffee experience. Obviously I will be obeying Italian coffee drinking’s fundamental rule – no cappucinos after 10.30 am. Will I buy myself one of those little frothing…
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Continue reading →: Randall Dudley
If you’ve been watching This is Us, you will know that the adopted black boy needed a name of his own. The name suggested by his biological father was taken from the author of a book of poetry, Randall Dudley. Here is one of his poems (Source: Cities Burning Broadside…
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Continue reading →: Predictions
There are things we hope for and the most probable outcomes. Trump’s escape from his second impeachment trial was the most likely result. Myanmar drifting back to military dictatorship, not a big surprise. Climate change becoming more obvious, still not enough evidence for the world’s biggest polluters to change tack.…
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Continue reading →: Byron’s Darkness
I had a dream, which was not all a dream.The bright sun was extinguish’d, and the starsDid wander darkling in the eternal space,Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earthSwung blind and blackening in the moonless air;Morn came and went—and came, and brought no day,And men forgot their passions in the…
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Continue reading →: Inequality in lockdowns
It might seem strange to look at our own situation and compare it with that of other communities. But we are all invested in fighting the pandemic. Crisis might make us selfish. We are living day to day with the restrictions that deprive us of: pints down the pub with…
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Continue reading →: International Integtity
Being a superpower seems to bring with it the privelege of not being held accountable for ignoble deeds. Russia is led by a dictator who has used his spy network, FSB, to poison his opponent, Alexei Navalny. Miraculously, Navalny survived the attempt thanks to his treatment in a hospital in…
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