April 14, 2024
This week I read a report in the newspaper about how farmers who have lost their entire crop due to flood are ineligible for a government hardship fund because their farms are too far from a major river. It’s a pity that the politicians didn’t think to inform the rivers when they came up with […]
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April 7, 2024
Despite my internal protestations and denial, as the rest of the garden springs into life, I’ve been forced to face reality. The honeysuckle is dead. I don’t know why it has died, whether it has anything to do with my brutal cutting back of the wayward jasmine that grows alongside. Perhaps it caught a disease […]
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March 31, 2024
I noted with interest this week that the Catalan landmark, “Sagrada Familia”, is finally due to be completed sometime in 2026 one hundred and forty-two years after work began. I don’t imagine Gaudi envisaged it taking as long as it has, although I have wondered whether the intricacy of his design was an unconscious way […]
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March 17, 2024
When I received a question from a man in his sixties wondering if he ought to take his pension or keep on working he added, “Is this something you can help me with?” I do some freelancing for a workplace mental health company that involves answering questions sent in by users who don’t feel ready […]
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March 3, 2024
This week I had to write a reference for someone, a task I have never previously been asked to undertake. I wrote with honesty, which was easy because this person is an excellent fit for the role, but I found it hard to think of anything that could be seen as a development area, something […]
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