Parents

Counting the milestones from cards, cake and jelly to hitting 74

Warning: may contain politics Sorry it’s been such a long, long time but let’s hope I can do better than I have done in the first half of the year. It has been an odd six months during which I marked my 74th birthday. I know it’s not a landmark birthday (that’s next year atContinue reading “Counting the milestones from cards, cake and jelly to hitting 74”

Farewell to a comfortable office life and it’s hey ho for the open road

Having made my decision to move on it was not just a simple case of finish work as a journalist at 5pm on a Friday and start working as a roadie for a puppet show at 9am on the following Monday morning. Giving up the flat would be a bit of wrench. It was theContinue reading “Farewell to a comfortable office life and it’s hey ho for the open road”

We’re baby boomers ‘cos our parents went to war

Nowadays they talk about baby booms as occurring nine months after a specific incident – such as a national blackout – but the baby boomer generation refers to those born after the end of the Second World War. In the US they give it a 20-year span with the first boomers born in 1946, basedContinue reading “We’re baby boomers ‘cos our parents went to war”

by Bernard Shaw Parents are you both so blind, That childish being is but yours to mind. Give care, give love, give guidance well , For that baby of man, is but a shell. Deep within lies a Godly love, Entrusted to you by him above. Such eyes of innocence, shining bright, Those tiny handsContinue reading “Parents”