Changing topic altogether: learning to live with the new social networked internet. A DITTER IF you want to be up to date, to fit in with the glitter, then you’ll learn to communicate with the new wondrous Twitter. Darwin taught that those who survive are environmentally fitter; so talk and talk to stay alive on [...]
Archive for the ‘humour’ Category
8 Jan
The past is another country
The past, I find, can be extremely seductive. Someone somewhere in my extended family has a photo of my brother and I aged about 10 and 7 respectively sitting on a large Clydesdale horse. The photo reminds me, of course, of the hours Barry and I spent playing on that huge horse. The horse was [...]
30 Dec
The Funny Bone – Nature’s Healer
I don’t find the idea of a man slipping on banana peel as funny as I used to. My response is sympathy – literally, I feel the pain with the falling man. But I can appreciate why others might find it funny. There’s no doubt that humour can bring relief from pain. When I collapsed [...]
