Parent's Guide to Pets
The impact of pets on parents....and a few other distractions
Saturday, 30 December 2017
Unraveling Cloud Atlas (A Film)
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My colleague and receptionist, with a background in Art History, recommend the film 'Cloud Atlas'. I bought it for Margaret this Ch...
Saturday, 23 December 2017
The Medes and the Persians
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Caroline Taggart's book A Classical Education: The Stuff You Wish You'd Been Taught At School Says a number of things that mad...
Monday, 18 December 2017
Where was I when land was being handed out?
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Is Britain overcrowded? The gypsy lent over and retorted "You didn't inform me when land was being handed out. I wouldn't ...
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Freekanomics
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I knew this book would be for me. Two things- playing with statistics, and coming at things from opposite directions. It's brilliant. ...
Monday, 11 December 2017
Feuerbach to Marx.
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Francis Wheen's book on Karl Marx also introduced me to Ludwig Feuerbach. What about his book that is regarded to be one of the first m...
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
Sermon from Barchester
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The Warden A Tudor foundation established a charitable hospital for 12 poor men with £12000 pa long ago. £850 now has been assigned to th...
Thursday, 23 November 2017
Victimless Joke
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There is no such thing as a victimless joke. Last night Alexi Sayle joked that from Thursday to Tuesday a small section of the middle clas...
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