May
29
2014
Most days Marjorie is visited by Linda who comes to tell her of the exploits of her grand-daughter, Laura. Laura got ten out of ten. Laura came top of the class. Laura passed this exam or that exam. Laura...
May
28
2014
For another year we say goodbye to the bluebells, those lakes of wonder, with sorrow. Their appearance each May, so silently their footfall is not heard, so shily and modestly their coming is hardly seen, is so miraculous, such...
May
27
2014
When we look at the structure of a cell under the microscope our intellects are astonished at the wonder of it. But when we see bluebells in a wood our emotions are ravished, as when we hear the slow...
May
22
2014
You should be go vegan because (1) iindustrialized meat and dairy are major drivers of climate change (an area of Amazon forest the size of Belgium is being destroyed every year to grow soya. Slow grown beef though is...
May
20
2014
Contemplative prayer is the most meaningful thing that can happen to a human being as anybody who has seriously practised it will testify. Hence why people will give up sex, love, family, children, home and wealth in order to...
May
19
2014
The Girl at the BankSeparate, removed, behind the glass Blouse neatly ironed, skirt tight but not Too much so, the tie tied casually aroundHer throat somehow disturbingly sexual, Her tumbling hair abundant and profuse, She is astonishingly beautiful, I...
May
11
2014
O my most noble and misguided lords, methane is the worst of all fossil fuele because of the methane emissions. Have you read the Cornell, Harvard and Tyndall reports on fracking? Perhaps not. These are the only serious scientific...
May
09
2014
I am deeply fed up with bishops. You can understand that secularist rationalists are blindly walking, nay running, towards the abyss into which so many scientists say mankind will fall if we don’t make the most strenuous efforts to...
May
08
2014
My Lord and my GodIf David Hume had been in the roomWearing head most philosophicalWhen Christ appeared to doubting ThomasAnd Thomas put his fingers in the woundsAnd said 'I believe! My lord and God!' Would Hume have thought 'Well this...
May
07
2014
'Look 'ere lady' I said 'clean up that dog muck in front of my front door''Oh' she said 'it's not my dog''Oo's is it then?' I said 'the Pope's?'Conversation in the back of the car on the way to...