404.2 posts / year which means I am still ahead of my one post per day target.
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April 16, 2020Have you noticed?
April 15, 2020Fear and alarm affects the brain and stops people from thinking.
I don’t find sanctimonious platitudes very attractive.
Knowing what you don’t know: Ambushed by the coronavirus
April 2, 2020Ambushed by the coronavirus, 15.5 billion km ago.
10 year old: So the earth moves around the sun and we move with it?
Dad: Yes.
10 year old: And in one hour we have moved 107,000 km along with the earth?
Dad: Yes.
10 year old: And the sun moves around the centre of the galaxy?
Dad: Yes, the sun and the entire solar system orbit the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy.
10 year old: And in one hour the sun has moved 828,000 km?
Dad: Yes.
10 year old: So in one hour I have travelled 935,000 km around the galaxy?
Dad: Yes.
10 year old: And does the galaxy move?
Dad: Yes, It is thought that the galaxy moves 2,160,000 km relative to other galaxies in an hour.
10 year old: So where did the coronavirus come from?
Dad: We don’t know.
10 year old: And it came in November last year?
Dad: Yes.
10 year old: And we have travelled 15.5 billion km since last November?
Dad: Aaaah, Yes. About that.
10 year old: So we could have been ambushed by coronaviruses lying in wait for us there?
Dad: No.
10 year old: But you don’t know where it comes from.
Dad: We don’t know where it came from, but we know it didn’t come from space.
10 year old: So you do know what you don’t know.
Still gone writing
October 22, 2019It has been about 3 months since I decided to stay off this blog and try and bring some other writing projects to conclusions (finish or abandon).
I think it’s working but I have neither finished nor abandoned any of the 7 “projects” I had ongoing.
Another 3 months should begin to generate some clarity.
Nonsense and nonsense
July 23, 2019I am taking a break to try and finish some writing. But it’s slow going and I need a break from my break.
Nonsense verse always rejuvenates.
Trying to write nonsense is not as easy it might seem.
And there are many kinds of nonsense. But nonsense verse must be read aloud.
Cheese and ham
Once the mouse had got his spoon
The cat then stole his ham and peas.
The cow jumped over the waxing moon
If only it wasn’t made of cheese.
Maun thum kun
Maun thum kun lanti brangin frau
Klum framking, framking, panto prang
Tagarn hartino balarmun klau,
Stum ginto, thinto, fanto thrang
Gone writing
June 25, 2019Writing my book(s) is making progress (again) and this blog will have to play second fiddle for a while.
4,000 posts
June 8, 2019I started this blog on 16th April 2010 and have just reached 4,000 posts.
That’s 3,344 days and I am still ahead of my initial objective of writing a post a day.
It started off as a way of taking a break from other writing. I have never had any particular audience in mind and it has proved to be very effective therapy against “writers block”. Inevitably posts have been about any subject that happened to be uppermost in my mind at the time.
I have no aspirations to be educational or inspirational or of influencing others. I suppose – as with most writings – I keep posting to satisfy myself.
Time lines are relative
April 6, 2019History is pre-me and is the diffuse period before I was born.
Ancient history is the misty past before my father was born.
The good old days lasted all the time I was dependent upon someone else.
Modern times covers my working life.
And the devolution of mankind started when I “retired” and the world has been going downhill ever since.
Many New Year celebrations left in 2019
January 1, 2019Apart from in June and July, it would seem that New Year is celebrated somewhere in every month of the year.
Devolution of democracy
December 28, 2018A modern politician’s priorities:
- Me
- The party
- The party’s leadership
- My voters
- My party’s voters
- The country
- My constituency
Other parties’ voters do not enter the picture.
