Here we are on planet earth, a rock suspended in space and time, hurtling around the sun at more than sixty thousand miles per hour, racing through the universe at God knows what speed and relative to what? Who knows? And on this earth there are six or seven or eight billion people, who can … Continue reading A billion maps
Love in the racks
For the second time in a week I’ve had the pleasure of visiting our Direct Services building in Meadowfield. It’s a great big modern and handsome building with a spacious yard at the back. I say pleasure without a hint of sarcasm or facetiousness as the visit stirred some memories held deeply inside me, memories … Continue reading Love in the racks
Trees have great structure
Apparently I talk in metaphors. It’s something I have learnt about myself recently. Whenever I want to get a point across I think about it in a way that is parallel to what I am saying, something that requires the listener to use their imagination and draws them into a picture that I am trying … Continue reading Trees have great structure
The Insinkerator
The Flintstones had a pig underneath their sink that would eat all the scraps of food that Fred and Wilma left on their plates. We don’t though, instead we have an Insinkerator Model 45 which macerates all of our leftover food items and flushes them through the waste pipe at least we did have as … Continue reading The Insinkerator
Different tastes
I’ve never liked the taste of cucumber or celery for that matter. I can eat them now but never could bring myself to do so when I was younger. I don’t know why but for some reason I just found the taste repulsive. All around me were people who seemed to like the taste though, … Continue reading Different tastes
Pieris and Dandelions
The Pieris is doing very well in the garden this year (I say the garden rather than my garden as I cannot take any credit for it!). Its new growth is flaming red, a vermillion and so bright that it seems to illuminate the garden just as the sun goes down. I’ve never seen it … Continue reading Pieris and Dandelions
The broadband on the bus
If I had a bucket list it would have got a big tick today as I got to drive our new bus. Well it wasn’t quite a bus, more of a second hand mobile library but I have been excited about getting behind the wheel ever since we’d managed to stop her from going to … Continue reading The broadband on the bus
I’ve fixed those pesky starlings
Last year I wrote a piece for my blog called ‘The birds ’ about the problems that we were having with some starlings that had decided to nest under the eaves of our house. The birds were not the problem per se. They were pleasant to look at, quite comical in fact, friendly enough and … Continue reading I’ve fixed those pesky starlings
And man will live for evermore
Man will soon leave his flesh behind. He will shed his skin and exist only as an electronic entity in a virtual world. It may take a thousand years, it may take a million but the process has already begun. We have entered the fifth evolutionary epoch and there is no turning back. Every day … Continue reading And man will live for evermore
A fair day to remember
For any respectable citizen of my home town the second Sunday in June has a red ring around it as that is the day of the annual Morpeth fair. It is an opportunity for all the people to come together, the well healed and the less so, the older and the young to enjoy the … Continue reading A fair day to remember
Thoughts from a Guerrilla Worker 