Month: January 2018

I can hardly believe that this truly inspired series came out in 1969, that's nearly 50 years ago. I remember watching it when I was in a particularly anarchistic stage in my life and for reasons that I still do not fully  understand it made a deep impression on me. I remember every word, every picture, every nuance and every joke. The recall is for me in the same class as Basil and Manuel and...

So, here we are the three of us, working away on a lovely bright Sunday morning. I never work on Sundays save dire emergencies but for some reason it does not feel like Sunday. I think it is because I haven't yet got back to the rhythm of Monday to Friday. In the far distance, a book about Donald Trump has excoriated him; he in his turn ridicules the book as nonsense. North America is suffering...

No matter how cold the day, no matter how much frost you wake up to, once you get working the body generates its own heat. And thus, we were today occupied with a grand hedge cutting operation, 84 m of hedgerow with a total height of 4 m. It is about 2m in width so it is impossible to reach the further higher branches even when standing on steps because your arms are only so long. I reckon no...

The etymology of the word "kind" is interesting. It's about someone's nature, someone with natural feelings, someone who is well disposed, someone who is benign, compassionate, loving, full of tenderness. This definition goes back to 1300 A.D. "Kindness" is different from say the quality of generosity or the quality of friendship. It is a whole basket of things which can include generosity of...

Although I love gardening dearly, it was very nice to have a break. I'm now prompted to start a job that was not particularly urgent as our current account has inconveniently hopped into the minus. This has nothing to do with the fact that I spent significantly more than I normally do over Christmas but all things pass. I miscalculated the quotation for my famous hedge cutting job - an 84 m...

Had the high tide at Weston-super-Mare been in the afternoon I would definitely have driven off to see the waves in all their glory. As high tide occurred at 7:30 AM there was not much point so we are contenting ourselves with watching the gusts of wind blowing the contents of the neighbour's recycle container across our garden. ***** I have been following the activities of UBUNTU which is not...