Reflection

My latest and the occasional light rant...

26.11.2024

Harry

06.11.2024

Examination Day

Early this morning a short notification arrived on the phone. I read it squinting in the dark.

11.09.2024

He is the Rabid Dog in Maycomb

One cannot reason with, nor debate a rabid dog.

10.09.2024

Marguerite's Pearl of Wisdom

“Use ‘em, or lose ‘em! That, gorgeous, is how I bore all the people in the shops… I wake ‘em up!” she said, laughing simultaneously.

18.03.2024

Giving a Voice to the Yarn

Hearing voices in my head is not new, they’ve been there my whole working life.

04.03.2024

Another Brick in the Wall

I can never know what he was thinking...

19.02.2024

Everybody Can Get In On This Act...

If you live rurally, even semi-rurally, this may not seem too big a deal, though it’s likely to hit home if you reverse the roles.

31.12.2023

2024, What's It Good For?

If you answered at all, take it as a positive: you’ve still a pulse. Now you can press the humility button and say to yourself I have it all…

23.12.2023

Picture This: I Got Something Wrong.

This is a bit of a personal howler, though it's been pointed out it doesn't really count as such, coming in under the get-out-of-gaol category: subjects not broadly known...

04.11.2023

It's All Right There on the Label...

While a teenager ... when only people were a mystery, watching them closely developed into a habit of mine. On display were their fingerprints, some a greasy smudge, others sublimely light.