History

I received a lovely message from my friend Paul this week, asking if I could expand on the theories I expounded in last week’s essay on Milk. He phrased it more succinctly than that. He [...]

Among the many scraps that have broken out on these shores, one that never seems to get the air time it deserves is a historic tussle that took place over a period of three decades of the [...]

Behold the mayfly Beating wings in ecstasy Oh, hang on! It’s dead

Wow! It’s been exactly one year since I wrote one of these. Where does the time go? Or is it that time stays put and we move on?

I learnt today that a pitchfork isn’t called a pitchfork because you use it to pitch hay onto a hay cart, it’s called a pitchfork because it’s pointy and you poke it into the [...]