France 2002, 5 years after Diana’s death. I was never a Diana fan (turning swearchecker on comments now) but I did blub for “everyman” at the funeral – the bells were tolling for me and all whom I love.
We were in a little campsite in Northwestern France. Minding our own business with [...]
Diana tributes – Postscript
Dear Prime Minister,
Dear Gordon,
Congratulations. You have the patience of an archangel.
I am glad that you have been watching West Wing because asking Paddy Ashdown (Pantsdown) to take on Northern Ireland was a truly WW moment. Except that he said “No” but then this isn’t television.
Speaking of Northern Ireland, given that we [...]
the Answer to the Grey Havens of Matthew 10:40-42
I’m afraid that the previous post on Matthew 10:40-42 will remain unanswered. I am going on holiday this Saturday to the French part of France. If my minister is chronological in his Matthean series he will unlock the passage this coming Sunday whilst I am on holiday. This was deliberate.
I will be unable [...]
Slightly Homoerotic?
I am currently reading Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy - and it has solidified something in my mind that I have often thought and never discussed much:
The miles of difference between sitting at a stadium rock gig and being in the mosh pit at the front.
They are two distinct experiences. I can [...]
The Architecture of Happiness
Alain de Botton has amused me for years. On reading “The Architecture of Happiness” I am reminded why – he is an intellectual explorer, maintaining a childlike inquisitiveness about life that I appreciate in him and in myself when time stands still enough for me to remember.
In short his excuse for discussing architecture [...]
Problems
Over the past week I managed to slow my life down to a near halt by a combination of accident and illness. My accident was banjaxing my laptop hard drive by setting a mini aerial on it which happened to have a magnet on its bottom. I felt an adhesive thunk which indicated [...]
BBC NEWS | UK | Dragons’ Den sauce hits shelves
BBC NEWS | UK | Dragons’ Den sauce hits shelves Don’t tell my wife, but Dragons’ Den isn’t a spoof. They really do seem to be real people with real business ideas. Levi Roots (not his real name, but a real person nevertheless) managed to get £50,000 out of the Dragons for his Reggae Reggae [...]
Pool Trick Shots
This is superb!
