Some days, I just get sick of the news. Of being riveted to a procession of unpleasant stories;  rarely natural disasters these days but more about the propensity of human beings to believe that our differences […]

This week marks the passing of the wonderful actor Geoffrey Baylden, who played the eponymous Catweazle in that brilliant TV show from my childhood, but this post is not about that form of sorcery. Rather, it is […]

The cat you see pictured here was named Lily, AKA Mr Lil, and he recently passed away.

You might, immediately, find the name confusing, but when he was born in the middle of the night on our bed, Lady Devotea […]

I know that many of my readers believe that the tea industry is ladies in colourful saris picking tea, cheerful overseers thanking them for their hard work as they tip wicker baskets into lovely piles of leaves, […]

Yesterday, Lady Devotea and I were at an Easter Fair, and so were quite a lot of other people. If fact, we were meeting up with six of them.

As we all know, fairs are sometimes a place to get really excellent […]

Ok, thanks to so many of you…

I am unwell, and had decided to take a few weeks off of blogging. And then, unbidden into my inbox / Messenger/ Facebook/carrier pigeon hole came multiple copies of a story from […]

Tomorrow is my birthday, and as usual, there will be world-wide celebrations and much rejoicing.

However, this year, I though I’d bestow a gift instead, to all of humanity.

There are two things that are […]

When I was a teenager, way back in the early 1980s, there was thing called the Doomsday Clock, and it counted down the theoretical time that the human ‘day” had left to run, i.e. when it hit midnight KABOOM! and […]

I was in the office the other day of an organisation that works in the organic food sector.

In their kitchen is a huge bowl in which the staff can throw organic waste for composting.

I noticed a teab*g in […]