I carted a large Ligustrum Aureum home from B&Q this morning in my seaside stripy trusty trolley. To you and me that’s an evergreen shrub. The largest small tree I could afford and carry. I was on a mission. I’d sold my Sodastream. No gas bottle or pop bottles, just…
Category: modern insanity
Growing Old Wisely
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Erosion of free speech
I shouldn’t read the news because I despair. I shouldn’t take notice of the things I see on social media because it makes me anxious. I should live in a little bubble and protect my mental health. Or I could wake up. Last night in good old Keighley town they…
Living well alone
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Text messaging & the art of gaslighting No.1
He bombarded her with text messages all day long. Inanities about where he was working and what he was having for lunch. Funny little anecdotes about his day. Reeling her into his life. Mildly bemused if not a little irritated at the banality of them. she gradually began to enjoy…
modern insanity
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More war, just for a change
So India and Pakistan are at war now. I can’t even be bothered to research what it’s about because I’m sure it’s centuries lengthy, boring and as predictable as rain on a bank holiday. Kashmir or something, fighting over who it belongs to. I asked our mate Google. India is…
misogyny
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Transphobic and proud
So this week we’ve had a result for British women. Real women not ones with a cock and balls I might add. The supreme court and five judges had to declare what a woman was which has to be the biggest pisstake out of women yet in the whole of…