Even the prospect of early annihilation should not keep us from making the most of our days on this unhappy planet. In the best of times, our days are numbered, anyway. And it would be a crime against Nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those Continue reading Bounce the Baby
Early winter sunset viewed from Pitshanger Park, Ealing, London
NS I has a new website and the home page features a very strange image for a savings bank. It s a photograph of a screaming child wearing striped pink overalls standing in, and splattered with, mud. She is either absolutely terrified or very, very angry about something. It s hard to tell which. I just can t imagine Continue reading Saving Frustration
With President Pudgy McTrumpcake on our shores this week, and with Brexit still tearing the country apart, BBC Radio 3 decided to cheer us all up this morning by playing an old Noël Coward song: There are bad times just around the corner. And you know what? It worked!
I reckon that I’ve learnt enough to build my app. But then something extraordinary happens. I look at my blank code editor and my head empties. I look longer and – by some strange quantum effect, I assume – my head seems to empty further. With the training wheels off, I suddenly feel that I Continue reading Code to Joy
I m sure some people think that The Economist must be a boring and staid publication, but this final paragraph from the magazine s departing Bagehot columnist is sheer poetry: Beyond the headlines and TV studios, Britain’s everyday impressions are mostly those of a homely and mingled place, not a bitter and binary one. The blare of Continue reading A Poetic Valediction
Here s a clip from A Very Murray Christmas (recently released on Netflix), which stars Bill Murray and several other celebrities (NB—both George Clooney and Miley Cyrus sing, although perhaps that s putting it politely). Murray s unique brand of deadpan humour can be very funny, and there are some laugh-out-loud moments in this short (56 minutes) film. At one point, Maya Rudolph Continue reading…
The pulpit at St Mary and All Saints, Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire
Taxi, 1983 by J. Seward Johnson, Jr.
The City of London has been invaded by 50 Shaun-the-Sheep statues in an effort to raise money for sick children. This one, named Baa-Roque (get it?), has an infestation of putti.