When there is an elephant in the room, it is probably best to acknowledge its presence before it decides to take a mini roundabout size dump on your Axminster, or stick its trunk between your granny’s legs hunting for a bun. It is often quite difficult to take afternoon tea with the vicar when JumboContinue reading “Elephants.”
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“All hail to the Ale”
It is all too easy to go through life thinking that things are exactly what they seem to be. The appearance matches the reality on most occasions. If they did not, every day decisions would be fraught with jeopardy and you would be either paralysed with fear or at the very least as suspicious asContinue reading ““All hail to the Ale””
The Crown is Fiction
Way back in the 19th century when it was just fine to shoot and bayonet anyone in a hot country not wearing a red jacket and pith helmet, Walter Bagehot wrote some stuff down about the English Constitution, perhaps peeved that the Americans and the French had already done so years before. We had notContinue reading “The Crown is Fiction”
It never rains in California.
Camborne is many things. To some, it is the cultural capital of their lives. A hub of dazzling creativity and sparkling innovation that shines as a beacon in the darkness illuminating its close neighbour, Redruth, showing it up to be the shoddy, rat infested, crust wiping cultural hell hole it is. The best thing toContinue reading “It never rains in California.”
A Red Sea Ramble.
It may be officially winter in the Northern hemisphere, and the daffodils in Cornwall have shown their glorious yellow joy. Spring is just around the corner and there is beauty in the world if you look. I’ve no idea what that is? Some kind of magnolia? Fenoolias? Anyhoo….a morning walk around the city to stretchContinue reading “A Red Sea Ramble.”
Don’t let the sun go down on me
The sun has but a couple of hours left to share its warming light while the sea breeze accompanies its setting glow. Ripples along the sea shore are gently caressed into wavelets that break gently upon the rocky shoreline singing the soothing song that we all know. One is bathed in light, life and loveContinue reading “Don’t let the sun go down on me”
Pussy Galore
There are two types of people in the world. There are those who have read Fifty Shades of Grey and those who wish the protagonist had been bound, gagged, and thrown to the fishes while still wearing his gimp mask, a very long time before he thought of picking up a pen or indeed openingContinue reading “Pussy Galore”
Pith Helmets and SIM cards
Being a fully paid up member of the master race can be embarrassing. I don’t mean riding at full speed in a panzer tank across the Northern plains of Europe is a cause for blushing. I don’t think Rommel in North Africa cared much about the effects on his ‘social media likes’ as he crushedContinue reading “Pith Helmets and SIM cards”
The Day The Sky fell In
Over twenty years ago, in a city far away, people got out of bed to start their day. They did ordinary things such as shaving bits of the body that sprouted stubble overnight. Some don’t mind this growth, while for others it must be got rid of. Men shaved as well. Coffee was made, perhapsContinue reading “The Day The Sky fell In”
“I say, you there…”
Trains, planes and automobiles provide you with any number of opportunities to reflect upon the vicissitudes, banalities and embuggerancies of everyday existence. Waiting at check in, security, in departure lounges and in platform tea rooms on a cold foggy night in Crewe affords time to observe ordinary and extraordinary folk, if one can be arsedContinue reading ““I say, you there…””
Looking After Your Ring. 