When did germs become such a thing and a cause of major panic? Covid exacerbated everything but long before that products were being advertised that killed 95% of all germs. People seem to have a meltdown at the very word. I don’t remember ever thinking about germs when I was young. As feral children growing …
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Free Speech!
In my youth people said things that would get you dismissed from your job today. We fought for Women’s rights (well I didn’t personally, but I benefitted) and we were quite tough. Women today can join the army, the police, play football, become boxers, but apparently cannot cope if a man asks to see their …
Anti Social Media
When did Social Media become such a thing? Everything is commented on and the most unlikely people become influencers who can apparently make a fortune endorsing products and giving their opinions on everything from the American election to the best way to train your Cockerpoo As far as I know Facebook was the first in …
Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional!
People boast that they want to grow old disgracefully – as the poem says: When I am an old woman I shall wear purpleWith a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me.And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer glovesAnd satin sandals, and say we’ve no money for butter.I shall sit …
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Don’t take life too seriously – nobody gets out alive!
If my dogs don’t like you, I probably won’t either.
I must be mad – there is no need to comment on that!!! I’ve bought a puppy. A black Labrador to join my other three. Puppies are adorable, who doesn’t love a puppy? Well, actually – me! I love my dogs when they are all grown up and reasonably well behaved – although I’m not …
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I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.
As a child I assumed that everybody wrote it was only as I grew older that I realised only some of us write everything down and think in stories. I believed I was going to write heart-rending and dramatic novels. My intention was to move my readers to tears – unfortunately in the case of …
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From Cocktails to Counselling.
In this very troubled world one of my favourite forms of escapism is listening to old radio drama and I’m particularly fond of the Paul Temple mysteries. Paul Temple was the archetypal hero, he was a rich and successful author and an amateur sleuth who was consulted regularly by the head of Scotland Yard, Sir …
Is laughter the best medicine?
They used to say Laugh and the World laughs with you, weep and you weep alone, but now it seems to be more that misery loves company. We all know that disasters sell more newspapers than good news. With my penchant for apt quotations I like the one in Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina that says: …
Beauty is Only Skin Deep.
What’s wrong with Skin deep? What do people want, a pretty pancreas? A lovely liver? One of the joys of getting older is that looks cease to matter that much. Anyone can keep up their standards if they want to, but they do it for themselves (or for their career if they are in the …
Has Anyone Seen My Glasses? 