BBC News, 17 Nov: Katie Price returns to the jungle. BBC News, 23 Nov: Katie Price quits I’m a Celebrity. BBC News, 24 Nov: Katie Price apologises for her behaviour since divorce. Normally I try to swallow hard and keep down the rising bile in my stomach when I see corporate press releases masquerading as [...]
Here’s a classic piece of wrong-end-of-the-stick, no-news journalism. BBC NEWS | England | Kent | Anger over school sheep slaughter. So a Primary School (5-11 year olds) in Kent (a traditional farming area) has a school farm where they raise animals and a parent is objecting that they have sent one of the sheep to slaughter. [...]
The fierce acetylene air has singed their writhing trunks with rust, the same hues as a foundered, peeling barge. The fierce acetylene air has singed their writhing trunks with rust, the same hues as a foundered, peeling barge. – Derek Walcott, The Almond Trees The Almond Trees is my favourite of Derek Walcott’s poems. And [...]
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Today I was forwarded an email from an old friend to whom I was once very close. It’s been over fifteen years since we last met, but it made me [...]
One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of Champagne by the derriere.