A quicker version of cricket? An indication of perfect vision? A Godawful year? Take your pick. This time last year, I decided to start writing again. I had no particular plan – previously I have written about one record per day for a whole year, but this time I set no parameters. I just feltContinue reading “Twenty 20”
Tag Archives: 2020
It’s Something Sharp
I ended my last post with the ongoing conundrum concerned with “the point”, and it has taken me a week to begin to drag myself out of the ever-present cloying trough of acute apathy. I know this will be read by a few, and I suppose that is what drives me on, but it isContinue reading “It’s Something Sharp”
Why?
For my children. Why not? Just about everything now comes with a demand to like, share and subscribe. It’s all: Sure, I’m posting this where it will, hopefully, receive some interest, largely because I would actually welcome some answers, but in the end it will make no difference. Ultimately, I’d like my children to findContinue reading “Why?”
Think!
Back when I were a lad, I had a good mate at school. We both had a set of drawing instruments, given to us (probably on loan, now I think about it) by our fathers, who were both of a Royal Naval persuasion, by which I mean that they were sailors. Military men. We wereContinue reading “Think!”
Twainty20
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.” Mark Twain Something I heard the other day made me stop and think. Something about how, with all this communication technology at our fingertips, everyone now has a voice. I generallyContinue reading “Twainty20”