Diary 2013
Half term
Waitrose is full of mothers who are beginning to realise that the school fees are not nearly as expensive as they thought they were
18th February 2013
Impotence
I am paralysed. Things occur to me, on walks, or in the night, or even while cooking. But I don't publish out of fear. She might not like it; they might not like it; all manner of those around me might not like it. So I remain silent, impotent, a eunuch, too timid, or considerate, to write. This has got to stop...
31st October 2013
Buscot Park shoot
We allow the local shoot to put a gun in the garden for one of their drives. Does this gun *ever* pick up his spent cartridges? No he does not. I imagine these people would be the first to complain if their gardens were similarly littered. Perhaps courtesy and good manners take a back seat to idleness, or pehaps the pervading sense of entitlement that afflicts this country extends even to those who are perfectly capable of cleaning up after themselves.
JFK
Stonkingly good article in Rolling Stone by Bobby Kennedy's son - http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/john-f-kennedys-vision-of-peace-20131120.
“Six weeks later, military and intelligence leaders responded by unveiling their proposal for a pre-emptive thermonuclear attack on the Soviet Union, to be launched sometime in late 1963”
And there I was thinking The Soviet Union was the enemy…
17/12/2013