There has been much in the press and on social meedya lately about English flags; painting them on roundabouts and flying them from lamp posts. For the former the perpetrators are most probably using emulsion paint bought in large DIY sheds. It's fairly cheap and comes in nice big tins. Some of those retail stores … Continue reading Clearly flagging…
So here it is, Merry Autumn, everybody's having fun… And indeed, here we are again in September, in autumn, and this very morning dawned with an appropriate autumnal mistiness. I wrote Autumn in England sometime in the mid 1970's, unfortunately I don't have an exact date, but I do remember that I was listening to … Continue reading Autumn in England.
I've written before of how I’m not greatly enamoured Saint George and the misplaced veneration which we English seem to imbue in him. And here we are, nearly St. George's Day and once again posts like the image below seem to seep out of the festering Facebook woodwork. Where to begin? Well, first off it's … Continue reading Lords, to the field! Saint George and victory!
What is Jerusalem, I mean, what is it? I mean. Good grief, why do so many people feel obliged, nay, compelled to start sentences with; I mean…? almost as bad as; So… And look, I've digressed already but that's alright, that's what I do, most of the time, digress. It's a sign of something, or … Continue reading Builded here?
I’m not greatly enamoured by this Saint George that we English seem to venerate so much. That odd fellow with his Greco-Palestinian background and a penchant for killing dragons. Once upon a time in these islands we worshipped The Dragon as a force for good, sadly Christianity put paid to all that and relegated Dragons … Continue reading April 23rd, but let us not slay dragons.
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