Monthly Archives: June 2018

All my life I have been fascinated by words, how they can be so powerful right down to being meaningless. “I have a dream…” to “have a nice day…” Lyrics add to my sense of wonder, leaving big impressions I … Continue reading →

Besides death and taxes, there are two other inescapable things – World Cup hype stories and surveys on the happiness of children. With the World Cup in Russia, the media have already exhausted every story (and non-story). But today the … Continue reading →

In one of my earlier bogs (12 September 2012) I wrote about my Hotel Holiday Jobs as a young man. In 1964, at my first holiday job in Sheringham, there were three young girls from Scandinavia working as maids and … Continue reading →

How many are 50,000 people? I mean, what would they look like if they were together? Easy. I just imagine a full football stadium. But what about the really big numbers? Like plastic waste. David Attenborough (bless him) put the … Continue reading →