The Best Of The Millenium
(First published online in the early years of 2k) The weeks preceding the end of the 1900’s and beginning of the 2K’s saw a plethora of polls and pronouncements regarding…
September 2023
The Perfect Dinner Party
Have you seen those lists of the famous or infamous people, living or dead, that you would invite to a dinner party? Preferring to be the host, I probably would…
Touching Greatness
(An excerpt from the yet to be published ‘Oh The Humanity – the memoirs of a less than memorable person’) I have been lucky in my life to have touched…
Linguaphile For The Love of People
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.”…
Besp-Oak Recycling
I am a collector, though not quite a hoarder (my wife might disagree) with a penchant for seeing discarded ‘things’ as some ‘thing’ else that could be quite useful. Perhaps…
Shinrin-yoku – Forest Bathing
The Japanese are amazing people, able to distill concepts down to their basics and in so doing create incredible beauty of sight, mind and soul. Wabi-sabi is one example, creating…