Translation
When you reach that place you are translated and I can no longer read you A tightrope walker has been at work, running the risk of getting the balance wrong and falling or a ferryman, bringing you across rough seas…
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2013
Savage cruelty – the easy option
What could be worse than being trapped in front of a television set on a Saturday night? Ant and Dec, followed by The Cube, followed by Jonathan Ross. Well, lots of things of course. Being trapped in a rugby scrum….
Horse meat and Leonard Cohen
I could eat a horse, and so could you. So could most people, because a healthy horse is perfectly edible. To call it a contaminant, as many in the media have done, is as misleading as calling carbon dioxide a…
Truth is more important than speed
I was never very keen on Chris Huhne as portrayed by the popular prints. If he were a regular reader of this site, he would probably not be keen on me. If on the other hand we met anonymously at…
Passing place
In the wild land between Ben Avon and Gairnshiel between black snow and white wind there is a passing place where spirit brushes flesh clouds shift shapes and brown is the colour of my true love’s eyes In the heather,…
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Just a little bit lower, and I’ll feel better
Funny thing, temperature. Over the past week or two in the UK we’ve experienced some pretty low temperatures. Not as low as Antarctica, or even Braemar on a bad day, but low nevertheless. However, if we wear the right clothing,…
Are you concentrating, or have you dropped something?
I can’t say this very often, but I was pleasantly surprised by an article on road safety that appeared in Norfolk County Council’s “magazine for all residents” that eased its way carefully through my door this winter. It was titled…
Unexplained light
The precise shape of the star and the way it moved, backwards and forwards, does not concern the wise, who love unexplained light Private browsing – examining conjunctions, comets and dwarfs – tempts the unwary into disintegrating time and again…
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