I believe that the latest spate of TV ads for cut price cremations are an obscenity in disguise. People far from the pearly gates are portrayed relishing the notion of a cheap send off whilst others pushing the idea seem to revel in the possibility that money saved will go to some almighty knees up […]

It’s a beautiful autumn day and I have taken a few moments to reflect upon the memories of some of my old friends whose lives were lost either by their own hand or that of others in reckless motoring accidents. As the shimmering light dances before me through the boughs of my woodland idyll I […]

Today I had a premonition, a view of hellish horror that has had a profound affect upon my psyche. I was at home and suddenly detached from my presence, gunmen burst through the door and shot my children and my wife before turning the gun on me, for those fleeting moments watching my loved ones […]

Of all the appalling sights of the desecration of beauty I have witnessed of late is the epidemic of tattoos on the skin of young women. There are fads in life that come and go mostly as the result of peer pressure. Tattoos are for life not just for Christmas. We are now living in […]

You heard it from the Yanks, you heard it from the Brits we stand resolutely with Israel’s right to defend itself.Do they also stand by Israel in the mass murder of innocent women and children who have no means whatsoever to fight back and while they are at it supply the weapons of mass destruction […]

I have now had enough of the disgusting scenes of bloody murder on the racecourses of Britain. What kind of baying humanity treats one of natures sweetest creatures with such contempt in the name of entertainment. Two more killed at this years Cheltenham “festival” and the same in the Grand National added to the many […]

There is a woman in Syria, I do not know her she does not know me. She is distraught at the death of her son, her screams echo in my consciousness, her tears are my tears my heart goes out to her, we will never meet other than in the spirit of her pain, I […]

Few things have given rise to my anger of such a level as the news surrounding the resignation of the Arch Bishop of Canterbury over his inadequacy in dealing with the piece of crap called John Smyth. Is there any wonder that society is tumbling like a house of cards when one of the few […]

As an apprentice codger it is deemed by the local quacks to give me the medical once over from time to time to save me from the various stalkers of age that eat away at what is left of three quarters of a century of coffin dodging.Having also dodged becoming wealthy I have found myself […]