You know what? It’s fine that I am a wuss. (See last post). Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. Everyone has something to offer. Ye...

Yesterday, almost three-year-old MsX and her parents came to visit and… She played at  sending cars down the gutter we keep behind the sofa ...

I am feeling depressed this morning. The news is so bad. Not only is there a permitted genocide playing out in Gaza, but there are right win...

  Dave’s letter to The Observer yesterday  Palestine Inaction

And while we have had our focus on the atrocities in Gaza, do you know what the Israelis have been doing in the West Bank? This is what arri...

I  took a break this week from the pain and horror of our current world. On Wednesday I went out on my beloved electric bike, on one of my f...

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...