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Continue reading →: Sexual Orientation Awareness
Having been on a gender identity training session some time ago, I signed up for sexual orientation awareness training with the same degree of interest. Statistics on self-harm, substance abuse and suicide among LGBT people are frightening. Homophobia hasn’t gone away and heterosexism assumes a superiority that heterosexuals have no…
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Continue reading →: Reorganisation
Some of you may have noticed the addition of two new pages Prose and Prose – drafts. I might have to rename the blog prosespinner….nah! Feel free to pass comment, feedback is much appreciated.
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Continue reading →: Inequality
The game of life is played on a sloping pitch. Those playing downhill have all the advantages of fortuitous starts in the game. Those struggling uphill might complain about their lot, but carry on battling because that’s the only game in town. Some players who have made it to the…
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Continue reading →: Line of Duty
Three police officers killed when their convoy carrying heroin was ambushed. So began last night’s first episode of series 5. Should they have stopped for the burning car and the woman pretending that her baby was trapped inside? Of course they should, but who was the leak within the police…
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Continue reading →: Why vote?
In our part of the world there is much disillusionment with politics and politicians. Some hark back to the good old days when those who controlled things in their areas were visible and easily identifiable by their attire. Combat jackets, balaclavas and sunglasses were de rigeur for anyone toting an…
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Continue reading →: Order order!
In this part of the world now known as Backstopland, we have been doing without elected representation for about two years. We continue to pay our MLAs for no particular reason. We have a Minister of State so out of touch with local feelings that in the middle of an…
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Continue reading →: Sons of a Mother
The day began well. Breakfast was served followed by a walk to the shops to buy flowers, chocolates, a card and the paper. Mothering Sunday. The surprise lunch at Deanes Meat Locker had been arranged and our youngest was coming to pick us up in plenty of time for herself…
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Continue reading →: John Hewitt revisited
My Saturdays are usually lazy days of overeating and binge tv watching. But last week I ventured out and felt all the better for it. This weekend I bought my better half a bicycle from Austin. It’s a nearly new Carrrera with front suspension. I rode it around Ormeau Park…
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Continue reading →: Chaos
In a quaint Victorian building on the banks of the Thames, a few hundred men and women have been entrusted with the affairs of state. And what a state they have made of it. Chaos rules supreme with splinter groups, backstabbers, deal makers and power hungry public school twats helping…
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