Notes from a lime-flavoured mind

  … research has even been carried out into the happiness of chimpanzees with remarkably similar outcomes.   For me personally, the even bet...

  If anyone read my previous ‘ Dot dot dot ’ post, you may have reached the ellipsis at the end and thought it remarkably well timed!  I hav...

A wise friend recently suggested I should once again make time to write.  In the age of podcasts, Tik-Tok and Instagram, it could feel anach...

  As a much younger man, I was dreadfully unfair to Dad.   Everyone here surely knows how infuriating he sometimes was and he certainly had ...

It amuses me that some of my festive tastes and habits are apparently controversial: I like tinsel (I don’t overdo it but the abhorrence tha...

It’s the end of the half-term break from schools.  It was a break I went into thinking I might get halfway through and decide I’d just as we...

  Three days ago I had the first of my Covid vaccinations.   The next day was a total write-off as I suffered what I am assured was only a r...