Psychobabble

I thought that might get your attention. I was at my new favourite, small London museum yesterday – Freud’s house in Hampstead.

Tech and Trivia

I should go to an overworked NHS doctor for a check-up occasionally but, as with the car and gas boiler, I wait for something to go wrong. This website does gets a check-up; it comes with the rations as us old soldiers say.

Blazer and Cords

I have made two additions to my wardrobe this year; red corduroy trousers and a blazer.

Bins and Potholes

On Thursday, if the media is to be believed, there will be a reset in the political landscape in England, Scotland and Wales.

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Childish Things

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. (1 Corinthians 13:11, King James Version)

The Finnish Boys

Sometimes ignorance makes me chicken out of something but then I find out. Earlier this year, in the forest cemetery outside Tallinn, I saw a memorial to “The Finnish Boys”.

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The Scorporo System

Is the scorporo system used for voting, birth control or to eliminate enemies in the Mafia?

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Chapter One

The bus was just about to leave, amid rumbles and sudden hiccups and rattles. The square was silent in the grey of dawn; wisps of cloud swirled round the belfry of the church. The only sound, apart from the rumbling of the bus, was a voice, wheedling, ironic, of a fritter-seller; fritters, hot fritters. The… Continue reading Chapter One

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