It’s the year of the fire horse – so Gong Xi Fa Cai to all friends who are celebrating! The fire horse […]

It’s St Valentine’s Day – well, maybe 20 minutes left of it… so what is it all about, er, love, actually…? Human […]

The world is the grip of Epstein fever. In the UK tho, you’d think his criminal activity was exclusive to England. Last […]

Well – I’m late. Again. So much for deadlines!! (See last week’s post…) 🙂 I’m going to take a different tack from […]

I missed my deadline yesterday… oh dear. This reminds me of Douglas Adams’ famous words, ‘I love deadlines. I love the whooshing […]

In under the wire – it’s one minute to midnight! Today (and a little bit of tomorrow) I’m going to write about […]

Whenever I think of the shooting of Becca Good, I hear Samuel Barber’s heartrending Adagio for Strings. There are so many tragedies […]

How are you? Very well I hope, if a bit fatter, and thinking about the new year? May you be happy and […]

Oh my – the ‘losing track of the names of days’ thing hit me there… I hope you’re having a wonderful Christmastide! […]

I read statistics recently that 45% of the world’s human population celebrates Christmas in one form or another. It may not be […]

What an interesting week – the might of the billionaire tech unicorns restrained by a block on access to people aged under […]