The British broadcaster Richard Osman has come up with a truly worrying scenario for the short-term future of US politics. Very shortly before he is compelled to relinquish office Donald Trump resigns, and is replaced for a few days by Mike Pence. During that interval Pence issues a Presidential pardon for Trump, making it impossible … Read more
I have been attempting to keep this blog as a “virus-free zone”. The trouble is that, whether we like it or not, this wretched disease is intruding into more and more of life …. either literally or metaphorically. Today it caught me in the latter sense. The project on which I’m working at the moment … Read more
Well: I sincerely hope so. That’s one way of describing what I am up to these days. The current virus panic has, in effect, given me a gift of two extra days per week, when you consider all of the regular activities in which I usually engage, but which have been cancelled for the time … Read more
Since my post yesterday, in which I wrote about the curious British folk custom of “Wassail”, I have had the opportunity to dig about a little, and have discovered more about it. Incidentally, I was wrong, it seems, in suggesting in that post that written records of the custom go back into the Middle Ages … Read more
If you are not English (and even many who are) will respond to this title with, “What?” I was unsure about what it meant until last night. Let me explain. My step-son is a keen brewer of cider, and he invited us to join his friends last night for a Wassail ceremony. I knew that … Read more