Vanishing pubs.
A traditional way of life is fast disappearing from the British scene. I’m talking about the English pubs. Ever since smoking was banned in July 2007 in public places, which included pubs, restaurants...
View ArticleA generation looking without seeing, hearing, or talking
Albert Einstein once said: “I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.” I agree with him. When I look at the present younger...
View ArticlePoverty in the UK
I read the following on Oxfams website. “More than 13.5 million people in Britain live in poverty. That’s more than one in five without enough to live on, discriminated against, and with more barriers...
View ArticleBBC Goof
Yesterday I watched the BBC Antiques Road Show from the National Maritime Museum on iPlayer. They produced a big steel sea chest that the presenter, Fiona Bruce, said that it was very old and hadn’t...
View ArticleFood for thought
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. “Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have...
View ArticleChequebook fraud
Just before Christmas a friend informed me that she had lost her chequebook whilst out shopping. “Not to worry” she said, “I’ll just get another one from the bank”. I told her she should phone the bank...
View ArticleDespair
After reading this post you may think I have callous indifference to the suffering of others. I admit that when I see pictures of the starving children in Ethiopia, pictures the Holocaust children in...
View ArticleDinky Kat
Two years ago my daughter bought me a DVD as a Christmas present. It was Joanna Lumley’s “Cat Woman” The first time I played it I thought it was entertaining, but it was not quite the kind of video I...
View ArticleSnippets
Headline in the ‘Mail Online’ :: “We need protection! Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt show off guns at home admitting they feel unsafe from crazed fans”. Who the hell are they? I’ve never heard of them!...
View ArticleChange of use
This blogpage is changing. From today it will not be just a general page about anything that springs to mind, because quite frankly I can’t think of any topics to write about these days that people...
View ArticleIt all began . . .
. . . when I was doing my National Service stint in 1957 with the Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. I was stationed in Germany and worked as a clerk in the admin office. I did have a...
View ArticleUsing an ordinary pen
I made myself a “Book of Shadows”, for want of a better name. Normally a Book of Shadows is used by witches, members of The Wicca, for the purpose of recording spells, curses, potions and other dark...
View ArticleBlast from the past
This post was originally on my Facebook page. “Gaze upon this and feel ashamed of thine own handwriting”. This is a page from a 12 year old schoolboys handwriting exercise book dated 1874. I bought the...
View ArticleSomething has gone wrong!
I have just found out that the comment box in the last post isn’t working. It’s not accepting any comments, not even from me. I don’t know what the problem is at the moment. I have tried everything I...
View ArticleYour handwriting as a font
If you write a letter with MS Word, LibreOffice or similar, you have to use one of the fonts installed on your computer. This results in an impersonal look of the document. MyScriptFont.com enables you...
View ArticleHow to get more comments
When I first started blogging many moons ago a fellow blogger who had been “at it” for a while gave me a few words of advice. She said: - Don’t write too much; leave readers something to discuss. - Ask...
View ArticleBefore and After
As I stated in a previous post my handwriting had deteriorated somewhat since leaving school in 1953 so I had decided to do something about it. I bought a textbook on good handwriting in 1957 and began...
View ArticleHello? Is there anyone out there?
Recently I seemed to have rather a lot of people calling on me, not just friends, but casual acquaintances, drinking friends from the pub and numerous cold callers trying to sell me things I didn’t...
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