The perfect nightcap - black coffee
How often have your heard people say ‘No thanks’ to the offer of a coffee when they are about to head off to bed? How often have we said it ourselves?
The demon in dementia
An admired friend was revealing some of the nightmares of life since her husband developed dementia. Dementia, they call it? From what I was hearing the spelling needed adjusting.
Call me Mohammed or Mustafa, anything foreign
I’m going to invent a new handle for myself if there is any chance that new migrants – new settlers, as they used to be called – are heading for Ascension Island.
Badgers are well worth saving
Dithering by our, er, lords and masters seems part of present-day political life, but to plan to exterminate creatures in our natural world, our noble badgers, which the government had only recently reprieved from slaughter, seems grossly cruel, insensitive, and nonsensical.
