Some people have hidden depths, but I think I have not very well disguised shallows. I suffer from FTTTSD – Failure to take things seriously disorder. I do try to concentrate on the more serious things in life but I am very easily distracted. If I had been born seventy years later I would undoubtedly …
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Stop Global Whining!
We’ve always been a nation of moaners – nothing wrong with that – it’s good to ring up a friend and have a good moan, but whining is something else. Moaning is cathartic, whining isn’t. It doesn’t even sound nice. People in romantic novels sometimes moan with pleasure (at least they did a hundred years …
The Good Old Days?
It’s a phrase you hear so often, particularly in my age group – The Good Old Days – things were so much better in the Old Days! But were they? Rose tinted hindsight can make us believe that everything about our youth was golden. Life was so much simpler then – in some ways it …
Age isn’t a number it’s an attitude
After a certain age, if you don’t wake up aching in every joint, you’re probably dead!
When my son and grandchildren were little there was a breakthrough moment when they could dress themselves. In the dark recesses of my memory I seem to recall a film about a man whose life goes backwards and he ends up as a baby. Judging by the difficulty I have putting my socks on in …
BAH HUMBUG!!!
Sometimes it feels as though life just has it in for you. We have all been through it for the last couple of years and just when you are beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel the Grinch in the form of Omicron jumps up to bite you. The news is nothing …
Non, je ne regrette rien – well not much anyway!
I’m willing to bet that nobody ever went to their death bed wishing that they’d spent more time watching day time television. My mind has been quite sharply focused during the past day or two because of a near death experience. The amazing wind recently brought down an enormous lime tree in front of my …
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Life is not a fairy tale. If you lose your shoe at midnight, you’re drunk!
Nothing keeps you on your toes like grandchildren. They have a directness about them that one’s contemporaries don’t have. None of my friends have ever asked when I’m going to die of if they can have something of mine after I’m dead. They also have a fairly hazy concept of time – I was asked …
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The Ascent of Man
The summer isn’t the best time to write – at least not while coming out of a pandemic. Or maybe that’s just me – the joy of seeing friends, of going to restaurants, shopping, travelling (at least within this country – I’m not sure I’m ready for abroad yet because I find the rules far …
Paradoxically Speaking.
According to the dictionary the definition of a paradox is: a seemingly absurd or contradictory statement or proposition which when investigated may prove to be well founded or true.And: A two word paradox is an oxymoron. Got to love an Oxymoron for the name alone! *************** A classic contemporary paradox is the situation with the …
Has Anyone Seen My Glasses? 