Banishing the lurgy!

Maybe this is a little premature, but ever the optimist!
Well, I’m feeling much better now, having had two pieces of toast for lunch (my first food since Monday evening!) and a bowl of soup with a few slices of baguette for dinner. I’m still feeling quite thirsty, but other than that I think (cross fingers) [...]

A good opinion about the ‘Credit Crunch’

My mother has today written a very good post about the credit crunch. She (no offence, Mum!) has years more experience and memories to draw on than me, and can give a much more rational perspective than the media at present seems to be offering.
I always enjoy hearing her view on things like this, where [...]

A sense of dejá vu in the US election?

I thought something was familiar about this year’s race for the White House. I thought that fiction was supposed to mimic real life, not the other way round! Fiction has in fact become real life, as the final season of the West Wing is being replayed for real in the USA this autumn! I just hope [...]