Mr Bates
Watched ‘Mr Bates versus The Post Office’ last night. What an astonishing, jaw-dropping, horrifying, story! At the conclusion of the documentary (the real-life saga is ongoing), I didn’t know whether to feel uplifted by ‘David’ steadily outing ‘Goliath’ and holding the monolithic organisation to account, or be despondent that such a thing could happen and…
Humble, amazing, delightful, sociable…
And, I am, of course, referring to…La Baguette! Of all the food groups, bread is right up there and, in particular, at the pinnacle of this group, is: The Baguette! This is the story of a journey. So, make yourself a coffee, in a French Press of course, and I will begin. Now I don’t…
… the desire to be human!
When it comes to the risk of treating entities as if they had human characteristics (refer recent post), one may wonder how we end-up tending to think that way and, a part of, the answer is that they actively encourage us to do just that! Even my use of the word ‘they’ leaves the impression…
Israel’s war on Gaza!
How can I not write something about the situation in Gaza! And how could anyone have ever imagined that the situation, prior to the Hamas raid, was stable, or sustainable? Before I go any further, I need to stress that this is not an analysis of the ‘Whys & Wherefores’ of how we got to…
Another lasting impression…
Went around to my local bulk purveyor of landscaping materials the other day. Didn’t want much, just to fill a couple of my fifty litre bins filled – one with organic mulch, the other with smooth river pebbles: we’ve been re-doing our compact, but somewhat overgrown, Zen garden! Anyway, drove into the supplier’s yard, went…
NASA’s ‘Pale blue dot’
Just had another look at the image of Earth taken by Voyager I, six billion (6,000,000,000) kilometres away, beyond Neptune, and only thirty minutes away from shutting down its cameras forever! Described as ‘like a mote of dust in the sunlight’, this is a truly shocking and humbling picture of Earth, our home. A picture…
The ‘humanising’ of entities
A scorpion wanted to cross a river but couldn’t swim. Fortunately, he spotted a toad nearby and asked the toad if it would ferry him across the river. Well! The toad looked at the scorpion and said ‘Do I look stupid? You are a scorpion, you will sting me’, ‘No I won’t’ said the scorpion.…
A tale of two bus trips
Used my transport debit card (Snapper) to return home the other day. Got to my stop, swiped my card to complete the ride, got off, and then immediately realised that I needed to go to a shop two kilometres further on. So, feeling a little bit silly, I walked from the rear door of the…
Cultivating our garden
When I look around and take-in all the gloom and doom in the world, and there is plenty of it to take in, I am, more than ever, inclined to follow the approach outlined in the final line of Voltaire’s Candide, namely, to ‘…cultivate our garden’. Voltaire’s approach fits nicely with Camus’ recommendation to ‘rebel…
The conversion of an automaton to a human
My wife and I were enjoying lunch at home one day when she decided to read the underside of the margarine container; for no particular purpose, as far as I could discern, other than perhaps as an eyesight test – and, yes, this introduction also demonstrates a certain level of desperation with regard to reading…
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Fractured impressions 