I once heard a joke about a rather disreputable individual who died. The person who was asked to give the eulogy knew full well the character of the man and was suitably wracked with dread as culture dictated that he not only tells the truth about the deceased but also say something positive. Telling the […]
My daughter sent me a picture of her new British passport. Whilst it looked nice and shiny it didn’t look ‘new’, dark blue with a lovely gold crest it reminded me of the old style British passport that I was issued with when I first made a passport application. The first issue of the European […]
“Who do you say I am?” When I’m describing someone, age, height, and colour come to mind then I move onto characteristics, nice smile, sense of humour, shy etc. Sometimes when I have had someone described to me I’m misled when I eventually meet the person, they don’t fit the description, forcing me to make […]
For Rob Ford, the mayor of Toronto, Canada, things were pretty good. He was getting away with it. But when the revelations of character flaws appeared through a few films on YouTube it didn’t take long for the accusations of ‘unfit for office’ to be heard. I’m sure it could have been worse. Make no […]
Oscar Pistorius was another in that long line of celebrity/role models to have fallen from grace recently. The revelation of the shock news that he may have murdered his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp left fans of the ‘Blade Runner’ devastated. Tabloids daily rummage through the private lives of our heroes in ‘the public interest’, gathering salacious tit bits to parade […]
For ten years Bill Watterson entertained the world through his cartoon series, Calvin and Hobbes. In these cartoons Calvin – an intrepid little boy – is always off on some grand adventure with his faithful sidekick, Hobbes. Calvin’s father – a hybrid of Watterson’s own father and himself – is often seen trying to help […]
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