It’s inevitable that when people live together, work together, do stuff…again together, there’ll be occasions when there is acrimony. Acrimony can get bumped up into enmity or also a severe…
“This was written a goodish while back but I wouldn’t mind taking a walk down that lane again..” Apparently a build-up of toxins in one’s systems can lead to a…
It goes without saying that if I blog when my kid has a cold or sneezes excessively, a post has to be forthcoming when he breaks his wrist. The miniature…
Another reblog from another time… Been a long time between posts. I wanted to write but people and things kept cutting into my bloggy brainwaves and once they were gone,…
We had a very robust English literature syllabus while I was in school. Pope, Dylan Thomas, Matthew Arnold, Sassoon, Rupert Brooke et al. I specially remember Pope because just reading…
Now that’s not a word that means your kids are at summer camp or has Grandma babysitting while you take off on a holiday. No indeed. Childfree is a proper…
Life offers up platitudes GALORE. Some are self-generated and the others are ladled out by well-intentioned albeit unoriginal people. But platitudes, clichés whatever we choose to term them, do serve…
There are times when one wants to thoroughly box Alexander Graham Bell’s ears. True, he took communication to a previously unknown zenith but sometimes it’s actually too much of a…
These aren’t those bleating goats. No Siree! They are those invisible metaphorical goats whose horns keep poking at you something fierce about stuff that irks you at the very least…
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