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ebook Download
The ebook contains every post on this website from its inception in March 2018 up to and including 3rd March 2026
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The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth
Figuratively speaking I suspect the meek are indeed blessed and that in a sense they shall inherit, if not the earth, then at least a life of peace.
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Travel Broadens the Mind
A day in Rye in East Sussex does not sound every-man’s idea of excitement but it is change which is important to the psyche, not distance traveled.
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The Contented Craftsman
Is there anything so wondrous as a man truly happy in his own skin and content with his life and his occupation? As Dr Beran Wolf wrote: “If you observe a really happy person, you will find them building a boat, writing a symphony, educating their son, growing double dahlias in their garden, or looking…
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To Concentrate on “Good Things”
How much better you feel when you focus on the good and ignore the bad.
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The Internet of Fools
The internet is colonized by those who do not know that they do not know. Fools to put it less politely. Why?
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The Man in the White Porsche
There is nothing quite so odd as an elderly, fat, aggressive pig driving a white Porsche.
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Picture from the Post Apocalypse
Imagine yourself, if you will, in a world post the apocalypse to come.
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Hope and Despair
For the miserable, moody and mercurial, one’s outlook can swivel on a sixpence. Or dime, if you prefer. Not so for the irrepressibly cheerful, the waggy Labradors who go through life with a smile on their face and the conviction they are about to win the lottery. Waggies are always cheerful, pretty much. It takes…
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The Railway Children
There can be few greater attractions than sitting on a country railway station.
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Lead Kindly Light
I found myself transported back to the time of Cardinal Newman this evening, sitting in a glum old seaman’s church on the coast at Walmer.