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Continue reading →: A song for Europeans
National anthems can be rousing songs to stir the citizens to action. The French have their Marseillaise, the Germans their Deutchland über Alles, and we British have God Save the Queen. The lyrics to those anthems can be a bit triumphalistic, referring to past military prowess. Reminding current generations that nationhood sometimes…
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Continue reading →: Voice Projection
I must have very sensitive hearing. There are some noises that I find particularly irritating, such as a gaggle of people excitedly talking drivel at the tops of their voices, car drivers tooting their horns at passing pedestrians, camels hissing, peacocks squawking and drunken yobs chanting anything at all. As a…
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Continue reading →: Stuff about blogging and search engines
I am amazed at the search functions available online. Google is top dog, of course, but let’s not forget Bing, Ask and other more specialist search engines. Refining your search requires familiarity with the syntax that will get you what you want. Some tips about Google searching can be found…
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Continue reading →: Anti Smoking
As a former smoker, I am now very much against the idea that smokers have a right to pollute the air of others in enclosed spaces. That said, I don’t mind sitting outside a pub and breathing in the occasional whiff of tobacco smoke. Anti smoking posters range from the informative to…
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Continue reading →: Armenia
As Europe veers to the right it is worth remembering past atrocities carried out by authoritarian regimes in the last century or so. The Ottoman Turkish regime carried out the mass killing of Armenians, a fact that the Turkish government disputes to this day. There were approximately 2 million Armenians living…
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Continue reading →: Clean Monday
Another Bank Holiday and the kitchen cried out for cleaning. Dishes, floor, cupboard doors, vases and recycling-done. Now for the DIY, lawn mowing….nah, it will keep. The bees are on my side I’m sure. Not because they are anti DIY, I have no idea what their opinions are on that…
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Continue reading →: What’s in a name?
The shocking news that Blue Ribbon biscuits are in fact Blue Riband biscuits is gripping the nation. Never mind that 300 jobs in the UK will be lost and the factory shifted to Poland, one of the bastions of English teatime had us all hoodwinked with its cunning spelling. Dr Johnson’s…
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Continue reading →: Clive James on poetry
Clive James has a column in the Guardian’s Saturday colour supplement that is always worth a read. In the April 1st issue he took an American journalist to task for asserting in a book that “poetry is over.” No mean poet himself , Clive James in praise of Helen Hunt’s performance…
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Continue reading →: Dentistry – dentinogeneris imperfecta
It’s bad enough having to look at the ravages of time each morning in the bathroom mirror. When your teeth start breaking, it might be time for you to don your best sealskin coat and boots and head outdoors towards an icy oblivion. Luckily I am not an old-fashioned Inuit, so…
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