Monthly Archives: February 2015

Music, and above all lyrics, have both a large influence on me, the person and what I am thinking. Paul Simon really awakened me to what a good lyric can do and the pictures it can paint. Masterpieces. As I … Continue reading →

These last few months, I have spent some time thinking about all the things I have done and (some of the time) about what I might want to do in the future. When I worked for Shell, I learned about … Continue reading →

How often as a parent do you hear yourself starting a sentence with this word? Kids are curious and ask a lot of questions; they look to us for that answer to more or less everything. Way back, when the … Continue reading →

As a kid, I recall my father telling me about when people changed to electricity after centuries of using candles, and later gas, to light their homes. They were not at all happy! In the bright light brought by the … Continue reading →

I probably should not have found this amusing but, what the heck, I did. A warning has appeared not to place daffodils near food in supermarkets. In a letter to major stores, Public Health England warned the flowers could be … Continue reading →

Every now and then, I wander back in time to when I was a little boy, growing up in a sleepy Worcestershire village. Each time, I return with something I have not thought about for more than 50 years and … Continue reading →