Photo and text taken from The Guardian 12/8/25 Anas al-Sharif, an Al Jazeera reporter, was killed by an Israeli airstrike on Sunday night. T...

I have a free day and warm weather forecast and yet I feel ineffably depressed.  How can it be that the governments of the western world are...

It’s been busy and happy and lovely here since Saturday when our American family arrived for a visit, and now they’re on their way home and ...

  As I was driving home from Aldi this morning I was thinking about Gaza, which is usually on my mind either background or foreground, and I...

 

I am sorry it’s been a week since I’ve blogged. I was revving up to tell you about an art course I’ve been on, and various other bits of new...

  At last the ‘western world’ has spoken out against Israel’s barbarity. As expected, Israel doesn’t care. Now, we need concrete action to s...

  Look, I have no idea when I will be able to blog again about something other than Gaza. I am so appalled by this government’s lack of conc...

 

  How has it come to this? That the United Kingdom is complicit in a genocide.

Every morning when I switch on the shower I am thankful. It’s just something that comes over me. I think of all the people who don’t have sh...

  I know I owe you a post. Here are the headlines. The docs have not found a solution to my annoying but minor health problem but they’re st...

  I am still under par, physically, but I won’t bore you with the details. At least I can paint, at least my beloved 2 year old granddaughte...

This the opening paragraph of an article in the Guardian today written by Sally Rooney. It’s about Palestine Action which is trying to stop ...

  I am currently taking an antibiotic, of which a common side effect is insomnia, which means I am awake for several hours in the middle of ...

  I just asked Dave how I could possibly write about domestic trivia on here when the world is in such a dire state, with another obscene wa...

  I was going to tell you something funny today but I made the mistake of reading the news first. Israel has attacked Iran because it didn’t...

  Our last day…perfect. En route to the beach En route to the beach The beach! That’s me in the cossie - yes, I went in.  Goodbye till next ...

  We chose a different cliff walk yesterday  and a different bay as our destination.  And when we got back to the car park, a friendly robin...

  On the 29th May, a group of people stood outside Parliament and read out the names of every one of the 15,613 children killed by the Israe...