Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear… The election and the surrounding circus has provided an enormous amount of material I could rant about, but I just can’t summon up the enthusiasm. What’s knocked the ranting out of me is the realisation that there seems to be no end to the gullibility of the great British […]
Is I believe the title of a pop song in the genera punk.
It’s a wonderful sunny spring day, the birds are singing and there is a gentle breeze rippling the surface of the lake. I should probably be at work. It’s a fishing lake in the heart of the Sussex countryside and I am here because of my son’s obsession with fish and fishing. It seems that […]
Driving back from Suffolk on Saturday lunch time, listening to a phone in on Radio 4. Apparently, according to a retired civil servant who had phoned in, presumably with the intention of enlightening the more passive listener with his specialist insight into our political system, he stated: “What the next government needs to do is […]
I, like many people around the country, spent Wednesday afternoon listening to what may well be Alistair Darling’s last budget. What strikes me as possibly the most interesting aspect of the budget is the way it mirrors what’s happening in my garden, both in timing and content. To prune or not to prune , that […]