Either he’s dead…
"...or my watch has stopped". Groucho Marx Back in the day - whenever that was - I would hazard a guess that more folk wore wristwatches than did not. I…
Singing in the lifeboats
"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats" Voltaire 26th & 27th May Though we did not get back to the hotel until after…
No way to run a railroad!
"We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us" Henry David Thoreau Thursday 25th May On Thursday May 25th - having taken a couple of nights to recover…
The universality of incompetence
"I have noticed that, with few exceptions, men bungle their affairs. Everywhere I see incompetence rampant, incompetence triumphant...I have accepted the universality of incompetence.” Laurence J. Peter 'The Peter Principle'…
The Journey Home
I mentioned last month - in the second of two postings bringing the gentle reader up to speed regarding the musical progress effected by The Chanteuse and I - that…
Glenda Jackson
Glenda Jackson 1936 – 2023 RIP Very sad to hear of the passing of Glenda Jackson. The United Kingdom has - during my lifetime - produced such an extraordinary…
Substitutes for joy
"I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy" C. S. Lewis This post should have featured wild animals in their natural habitats in the Botswana bush -…
Out of Africa
The Girl and I have always believed ourselves to be a lucky combination - a notion based largely on evidence drawn from direct experience. An example of this good fortune…
Into Africa
Back at the beginning of the year I announced that The Girl had decreed that this would be the year in which we finally achieved that long-dreamed of bucket-list item -…
Come From Away
Scarcely a fortnight had passed since our faith in Canadian theatre received a significant boost as a result of our attendance at The Belfry for Halifax-based 2B Theatre's production of…
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