Public Breast-beating Over Middleton Paparazzi Photos You must understand that there is no news today. Everything is celebrity, sport and royal in the UK. Everyone has a media correspondent, a sports correspondent and a royal correspondent. Reporters just report on the latest twitter feed. No-one searches. There are several aspects to this boob photos media […]
Bloody Sunday The Saville Report, probably the longest and certainly the most expensive enquiry in the UK ever, is now out. The ramifications are continuing, despite the Prime Minister trying to draw a line under everything. See Bloody Sunday report published History On that day in 1972, 13 folks were killed, and overall, in what […]
https://youtu.be/Vhq9n8gq4-0 This person’s video is remarkably like “The Song of Roland” in it’s feel. This is something I read when I was about 9 years old, along with a host of Norse Saga and Greek & Roman myths and legends. I can’t remember much, specifically,about all the tales, but the whole essence could be said […]
A Case of One Man’s Cake is Another Man’s Poison I first read the short story, “The Bureau d’Exchange de Maux” by Lord Dunsany, in the late seventies in a compilation, probably a Panther Books one. It’s staggering simplicity is matched by the masterful telling. View Larger Map Later, in (a sort of) homage, Crawling […]
Introduction I’ve nabbed the content of this from Ted Penfold. My wife, has told me that she heard this lecture of Dick’s and found it and him some of the most inspiring things in her life. I came across this wonderful piece by chance, looking for some background information on Nikko, the second guy after […]
