Inventors find regularly that their idea is not unique, it had been triggered in more than one head. So is the case with political theories. I wrote something on a New Party and posted it, and then discovered we may have one in a couple of years time in Northern Ireland. The nucleus of the… Continue reading The Conservatives New Party In Northern Ireland
Month: April 2007
Religion
Having been through the religious mill, from complete certainty, through doubting, to agnosticism and finally to atheism, I am fairly aware of the different degrees of religious belief from the fanatical to the dilettante. It is therefore unwise and unfair to openly denigrate belief in whatever God, as there are those who rely on their… Continue reading Religion
In Search of Progress, 1920 To 2000, Part 4 of 4
How does it all add up? We have bad behaviour among the young, a tinkering government bent on flying kites instead of legislating We are taxed beyond reason in every sphere, and our lives are less gregarious. Let us look at the young. Bad behaviour could be expected, because the plight of a lot of… Continue reading In Search of Progress, 1920 To 2000, Part 4 of 4
In Search Of Progress, 1920 To 2000, Part 3
Mid 50s to Now. The 60s psychologically, had the same effect as moving from a dark room to one with garish lighting. There were crazy fads like burning bras, a totally fatuous symbol which lasted only a very short spell. The whole aspect of clothes, hair styles especially, coloured hair and the Mohican were rampant… Continue reading In Search Of Progress, 1920 To 2000, Part 3
In Search Of Progress, 1920 to 2000, 2 of 4
’39 to the Mid 50’s In 1939 most of the school children, with some parents and children of a younger age, were evacuated. I included, so I did not see the barrenness of the towns and cities without children, which must have been the case. Children by and large have a softening affect on their… Continue reading In Search Of Progress, 1920 to 2000, 2 of 4
In Search Of Progress, 1920 to 2000 1 of 4
20’s to ’39. What follows here, and several other posts in this vein, are narrow views of one person, not over-views determined by research. They are done mainly to determine how life has changed over 80 years. Take children; the phrase ‘children should be seen and not heard’, in its various forms, was a Victorian… Continue reading In Search Of Progress, 1920 to 2000 1 of 4
Cartoons
If you choose to read this, you can decide whether I’m talking rubbish yet again. Inside all of us there is a semblance of the Peter Pan syndrome, a little corner that harks back to childhood – mine is elephantine. My grandchildren, in their 30s, give me Shrek, Valiant, and other cartoon DVDs for anniversary… Continue reading Cartoons
It Is Almost Beyond Belief
It must have been an April fool’s joke it could not have been anything else, or so I thought, it is so ridiculous. I have been fishing from childhood, in lakes, in the sea and now, years later, the government suddenly wants to charge me for fishing in the sea. The fact that it’s a… Continue reading It Is Almost Beyond Belief
The Change To Naval Life In 1940
Prior to 1940 the Navy in today’s terms was a cross between a monk’s seminary and a football supporters club. Lower Deck life aboard ship was hard, totally masculine, and without any privacy. Shore leave was limited, often only a few hours and lived at strength 10. The sailors were proud of the Navy and… Continue reading The Change To Naval Life In 1940
African Experience 2, Arrival
Last Posted 23,10.06 Livingstone From the age of six until I was eight years old, I lived in Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia, as part of the British Raj, although then it was not thought of in that way, even if we behaved so. As a little boy, lifted out of a simple, stable environment, dumped into… Continue reading African Experience 2, Arrival