El Presidente spoke from deep in his orange wilderness. The greatest person who has ever walked the Earth, the best invention since sliced bred, the enema of the people, His Excellency the King of Nastiness, Naivety and Numbskullery has let it be known that FIFA kows tow. The erstwhile recipient of the FIFA Peace Prize …
Forgive this play on words, Dear Friends. Yes, I did watch “Four Weddings and a Funeral” back in the day. There are moments in our lives which are a surprise. The unexpected arrives and leaves us stunned, unable to speak but often with a glaikit immovable smile stencilled to our faces. Such it was when …
The sun shone in a cloudless, azure sky. It was Spring and new life was appearing everywhere. Buds were straining to burst into rosy flamboyance on the rhododendrons. The purpling of the heather was still someway off but it could not contain its excitement now that it was free from its wintry burden. It …
“Sometimes the greatest lies are told in silence” Or maybe not! I suppose, Dear Friends, that experience is a great teacher. We all know that one of the concerns of living in a technological world is the fear of scams. We are all aware of people who talk a good line, people who are trying …
Welcome to the May mind of Davidson, Dear Friends. Who knows which aimless meander it will visit this month? Minds are like that aren’t they. Just when we think we have a grip, we have produced a specific, have charted an immediate plan, cobbled together a distant future, then our mind which has been so …
The elderly man parked behind a tractor by a field. The field was next to an old village church. He strolled to the lychgate, opened it. It creaked with a sound he recognised from 55 years ago. He found the church door unlocked so he opened it. The clunk matched the lychgate in its …
In a moment of madness the other day, probably because I was becoming bored with the excitement of twiddling my thumbs, I decided to look up how many days there are in 1000 years. Yes, Dear Reader, it says much about the busyness of retirement that I should be enthused by this piece of …
Dear Friends, many years ago when I lived in London, I was invited to a party in the Borough of Peckham. It transpired it took place in a block of council flats. As is often the case I was greeted and shown to a bedroom where coats were being dropped. On the way in …
In early October I had to go to Park Royal Mall to buy travel insurance. I arrived early. Most of the shops in the Mall do not open until 10.00 a.m. but one can still access the building. On walking past a gaming store I was surprised to find a group of about 25 people …
All the land that stretched for miles outside his ancient pile was his. He looked out on green fields, flourishing forests, a walled garden, some land that was farmed, some that was wild. He controlled it all. His was an ancient title, some said his family went back with the land for 1000 years or …
