The Pleasure Principle

Emboldened by a degree in Psychology (BA, Dunelm, 1976) I have been musing on the Pleasure Principle coined by Sigmund Freud.

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Needle Time

If you read Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack or live in Wagga Wagga you will remember James (“Jim”) Higgs, OAM. He is a leg spinner who played for Australia in twenty-two Test matches. The late, great and lamented Murray Hedgcock would have known him.

A Preview of Bertie’s Diary

  I was given a present this morning. It was a chilly, park bench meeting supervised by an inordinately high number of Hammersmith and Fulham staff in high viz vests.

Famine

Van Gogh’s peasants, he painted them in 1885, are startlingly unattractive. His subjects were inspired by The Blessing before Supper by Charles de Groux; a more comely assemblage.

Brain Stimulation

Well here I am in Hammersmith Hospital having my brain stimulated, or perhaps not, as it’s a double-blind study.