I just heard on QI this evening that to save cloth in the second world war turnups on trousers were banned and boys had to wear shorts until the age of 12. This idea obviously carried on beyond the war as I can remember (like all other boys) having to wear shorts until I went …
Category archives: Writings
Look Well To This Day For It Is Life
I seem to be reading books I need lately. I seem to be choosing books I need. Books about love, life and how to move forward. How life springs from death but more importantly how life springs from allowing yourself to mourn death … the death of loved ones and the things you love. It can only …
Time for Contemplation
I thought it had been a lot longer since I last wrote anything here. I was surprised to find it was only early January. The times I’ve sat down to write and then closed the page without writing anything. It’s like wanting to approach something and then shying away from it when I get too …
Ice Circle
From: www.dailymail.co.uk 13th January 2009 A disc of ice, measuring 10ft across, was spotted in Devon during last week’s freeze, swirling on the River Otter near Honiton. Ice circles are known to appear in the Arctic, Scandinavia and Canada, but this is thought to be the first seen in Britain. They occur at bends in …
BBC – Radio 4 – Afternoon Reading
The Mural At Frau Krausers by James Hopkin, read by Tom Goodman-Hill. The narrator stares at the green mural at Frau Krausers – a seedy tavern under an iron railway bridge in Berlin. He knows he should leave, but one beer leads to another. Producer Rosalynd Ward. I was listening to this on the way …