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Continue reading →: A man walks into a bar…
An Aussie journo walked into a bar and ordered a beer. He paid by card and was not wearing his glasses, but suspected something was wrong. It wasn’t the beer (which was a prize-winning success, including the Supreme Champion Beer of Britain). No, the mistake was how much he had…
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Continue reading →: Equality and Diversity
Our attitudes are hopefully more enlightened than our forebears towards diversity and equality. That is to say, there is no excuse for prejudice and bigotry in countries with a healthy respect for human rights. The Age of Enlightenment occurred in Western Europe around the 17th century. Old values were challenged…
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Continue reading →: Tarantino Films
I rewatched three Quentin Tarantino movies over the weekend: The Hateful Eight and Kill Bill Vol. I and II. I must have been tipsy or tired when I first saw those films because they were well worth revisiting. The violence in a Tarantino film is a given, as is the…
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Continue reading →: Teeth
I was fortunate to have been born in NHS England. My teeth have a genetic condition that affected the growth of dentine. As a result, I needed a lot of treatment to protect all my teeth as I was growing up, and crowns when I had stopped growing. The crowns…
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Continue reading →: Swedish protest
In 1979 protesters got creative. Homosexuality was deemed a mental illness under the law in Sweden. Hundreds of people phoned in too gay to go to work. The law was changed soon after.
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Continue reading →: Leisure by Henry Davies
What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. No time to see,…
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Continue reading →: Happy memories of Mum
Mum picked out this poem to be read by yours truly at her funeral this week: Afterglow by Helen Lowrie Marshall I’d like the memory of me to be a happy one. I’d like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done. I’d like to leave an echo…
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Continue reading →: Death doesn’t have to be so bad
Mum’s passing was made so much easier because of her positive attitude towards the inevitable. I was asleep in the private room at the precise moment she took her last breath, but my son woke me to tell me she had gone. What a brave lady, sadly missed by family…
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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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