To my utter horror when I am nice to people – or when I ask for something – or when I help someone – I seem to get “awww…bless you…” with a soppy sweet smile so utterly patronising, so dripping…
…an ignoramus’ view – or, why I am not in therapy. Some psychotherapy is merely wound stirring. A strategy to generate income. Thus creating dependency and co-dependency between therapist and client. As long as the wound is being stirred it…
Give thanks for ingratitude! That glorious confirmation of every stereotype and prejudice ever nursed in the deepest corners of the ungrateful soul…. Brian said, and I was amazed. Brian Trainis he was called then. He said, when you do things…
Last Thursday approximately 52% of British voters declared their preference for stepping out of the European project and turning Great Britain into Little England. Awwwww diddums! They’s so cute, these intellectually challenged ethically deficient people with their charming belief that…
Bye bye Great Britain, we’re Little England now We’ve dumped the Euros and de-standardised the cow We’ve resmoked the air and unstocked the Thames And put things all back together again! We can now go back to living in sin…
Japan 1600: the Legalists under the Tokugawa end centuries of internecine warfare between clans and unite Japan, with the Emperor a powerless figurehead. Four hundred years followed of oppression by sword. Enforced by a network of samurai and informants. The…
Wishing I were an exhibit An iconic one like Tipoo’s tiger Or a Rodin Immobile And Composed Receiving as my due A glance or two. I’m stuck. Alone, like you Unable to summon the pluck to say hello. You go….
In my journey From A to Z Now near the end of my alphabet at last (Or at least I hope so) Here where Everything is so much less (Even less clear) where maintenance is the only task, Repairs…
How the people stare! When you indulge in silly hair If gold or green Or something between Or cut and shaped like a soup tureen Or styled with dash Above the eye Or tortured with The latest dye Or tied…