Category: General

Blabber-Mouths. I hope you’ll forgive me for reiterating something I have previously mentioned, but it is apposite. In the mid 30s, discussion on bodily functions, female problems, divorce and anything else that was deemed ‘not nice’ was only aired by small groups of people which definitely did not include children. Consequently one was fairly mature… Continue reading Random Thoughts 13, Three More Theories.

Another View on Global Warming and the Recent Flooding. I include here a theory that I postulated to my Dutch friend, Jan, and I wonder if you would agree with it or like the rest of my family realise that my brain is going to mush. When you think of all the conflicting changes that… Continue reading Random Thoughts 12, A theory and a Question

Sometime ago Sophie was very ill, and I became head cook, bottle washer, and shopper extraordinaire. It was then I developed this theory. I found shopping in a supermarket so difficult, controversial and aggressive that I had to find a reason and came to the conclusion that somewhere at the back of Tesco’s was a… Continue reading Random Thoughts 11, Trolley Feminists

I hear so often today of break-ups of relationships that I started questioning in my own mind why such a high proportion seem to fail. I am not trying to preach, nor criticise, just analyse what it takes for one-time total strangers, with different aspirations, different backgrounds, even different customs in some cases, to choose… Continue reading Sunday Special, The Constituents of Family Glue

Recently a very old friend was in hospital for a period and during that time she developed, on three occasions, MRSA or some other awful, unpronounceable, disease expressed in letters. One reads about these cases in the press, and it is only when someone you know is infected that you realise the size of the… Continue reading Random Thoughts 10, MRSA and Jail

When one gets to the point in life where you have outlived most of your friends and those you haven’t are probably in sheltered accommodation, one can be excused for questioning every change in the routine of life. My current problem is diction, other people’s diction, on television and on film. In an essay I… Continue reading Random Thoughts No 9, I ‘m Either Going Deaf or Daft

The New Boys We spent the first month at Butlins Holiday camp at Skegness which had been renamed HMS Royal Arthur and sounded in our ears like an aircraft carrier. Inevitably the result was that Smith and some others were able to give rein to their fantasies in the local pubs, not realising that the… Continue reading Royal Navy 1941 to ’46, in order, Butlins.

Having lived with terrorism for close on 40 years, and still living with it, having been threatened and held up by terrorists, including youngsters with Molotov cocktails, I have thought about it repeatedly. To some extent, I can understand internecine terrorism, even if I think it’s futile, but international terrorism seems pointless. The only people… Continue reading The Futility of Terrorism

Some of us feel that the Internet has been permitted the level of freedom which is beyond commonsense. When one can obtain details of how to make a bomb, how to form a suicide pact, how to obtain pornography of every sort, and that the hits on these types of programmes are probably of a… Continue reading Random Thoughts No 7, Suicide Pacts , a new phenomenon