Sticks and stones may hurt my bones but words can never harm me – well that’s how the saying goes, but it’s not true. As far as I’m concerned words can drive you insane. For example, if I hear one more American mother (and they usually are American but I fear it is creeping in …
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Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
‘No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home in Weston-super-Mare’. I have quoted this before, but it is one of my favourites from Kingsley Amies. Life is pretty random – many of my healthiest friends have died young and yet some of the reprobates are still will …
Has Anyone Seen My Glasses? 