It’s what it doesn’t say…. — OK, in answer to your first question, I know it’s Midsummer, so why am I writing about Christmas carols? Well, this particular hymn is not, in so far as I can see, directly connected to Christmas. At any rate, there is no mention of that specific festival in the lyric…

Old age and guile, my boy! — Infiltration Winter light. Everything monochrome except the yellow flashes on the guards’ uniforms and the green pine trees round the perimeter. The middle of the area is all storage containers, arranged in a grid pattern. Four guards patrolling, two north-south, two east-west. Three more on the perimeter. A hut near the…

Sometimes, the world has it in for you! — Friday June 3rd Anne’s 65th birthday and our 33rd wedding anniversary. Anne gets a sweet video call from our son Rik and grandson James in the morning. In the afternoon, our daughter Jen brings the granddaughters, Amelia and Charlotte, over and cake is eaten. We have Chinese food and a bottle of wine…

And what can it be used for? — Ok, we can say that a gun is a hunting tool, a piece of sporting equipment, a tool for personal or home defence or the last hope of decent citizens faced with a tyannical government. Or we can be painfully honest and say that for far too many American men…

An agony in five fits — Fit the First — Liberals Limp Liberals limp, you know, because they’re constantly shooting themselves in the foot! You are fully supportive of homosexuality (in both men and women), bisexuality, transexuality and general ‘queerness’, of course. But then somebody pipes up “Then why don’t you support paedophilia as a legitimate sexual orientation?” “Well, because this, because…

or, Rodent on the Run — OK, so my daughters’ former partner evicted her and their two little girls from the house they used to share. I’m not going into details about that because it makes me a bit cross. Cutting to the chase, Jen and the girls are now in emergency accommodation and pets aren’t…

Arkham Police Department May 12th 1923 — Yes, yes, I understand, Detective. No, I wish to cooperate entirely, I will hold nothing back. But you must understand that my memory fails me at certain points. …

The adventure (we hope) continues — As of today (6th May), the BBC has confirmed that Ncuti Gatwa, a Rwandan-born Scotsman most noted for his award-winning portrayal of Eric Effiong in Netflixs’ Sex Education series, has been cast as the Fourteenth Doctor. As per usual, all the speculation and wishful thinking has come to nothing. …

It’s not just about Capitalism vs Socialism (it never really was) — So, as some of you may know, we had Local Council elections in the UK yesterday. So SWMBO and I duly toddled off to the Social Club at the top of the road, which is our designated Polling Station, to do our civic duty. The Boss voted Green Party, because…